ID: 1700 Family Hub Family Support Worker
Service: Wythenshawe Children’s Centre and Family Hub
Salary:
- starting at £25,221 bottom end FTE per annum, rising to £27,780 top end – (£20,449.46 to £22,524.32 pro-rata per annum)
Location: Crossacres Family Hub, M22 9TA
Hours: Part-time (30 hours per week).
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Temporary - 12 Month Contract
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
We see first-hand the power of family to shape lives, for better or worse, so we speak up for the
importance of family in national and local policymaking, amplify family voices and represent the changing needs of families in the UK today.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Family Hub Family Support Worker to join the team at Wythenshawe Children’s Centres & Family Hub. We want an individual who is passionate about supporting our aim to make a positive difference and improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in Wythenshawe. We are looking for someone who is experienced in engaging and working with parents and children in individual and group work.
Main Responsibilities:
• The post holder will provide high quality, child centred support to children, young people and their families across the 0–19 age range (or up to 25 for young people with SEND). They will work as part of a team delivering the Family Hub Offer, providing frontline support to a high professional standard and using a whole family approach.
• The role contributes to the delivery of an integrated early help and public health offer, ensuring families receive timely, effective and coordinated support. The post holder will support families who have been identified as requiring a package of help to improve outcomes at universal level or Level 2 on the Multi Agency Threshold document, including needs relating to health, social, educational or environmental factors.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Relevant professional qualification in childcare, early years, youth work, social care, family support, health, community work or equivalent experience
• Experience of working directly with children, young people and/or families in community, home or educational settings.
• Experience delivering group work or community based activities.
• Experience of supporting children’s development (communication, physical, emotional, social).
• Experience of multi-agency working and contributing to joint assessments or plans.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service – Enhanced Adult & Children’s Barred
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the ‘Apply’ link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 1st March 2026 at 23:59
• Interviews are scheduled to take place on the 12th March 2026, with slots throughout the working day.
For any queries, or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or the potential for flexible working, please email: ragen.fallon2@family-action.org.uk
All appointments with Family Action are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are happy to consider any reasonable adjustments that candidates may need during the recruitment process and you will be asked whether you require any adjustments if shortlisted for interview. We also make reasonable adjustments on the job, where required.
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Intersectionality is important to us and we welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ candidates and disabled candidates. We are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action because we know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and we strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.
All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse reasonable travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
