Community Development Worker

Role Responsibility

Family Hubs are part of Kent County Council’s offer to support to children and young people, aged 0-19 (25 SEND), and their families.

Family Hubs are a place where the whole family can access advice, support and guidance.

Our local Family Hubs offer a broad and integrated range of early help services for families, which include midwifery, health visiting, parenting support and activities for children and young people.

We have 56 Family Hubs across Kent, where we operate alongside our partners to support local communities.

Kent County Council is actively seeking to recruit passionate Family Hub Community Development Workers for multiple districts across Kent.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a Family Hub Sevenoaks District team in Kent and help build and expand the offer of services for children, young people and families from 0-19 (25 years for SEND). 

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Building and strengthening local Family Hub networks in collaboration with partners and community organisations.
• Encouraging community engagement and co-design initiatives to develop and inform the Family Hub services.
• Expanding volunteer opportunities to empower parents, carers, and young people to lead and participate in peer-to-peer groups and other Family Hub activities.

We value skills that foster community empowerment, address in-equalities, and encourage active participation. 

The successful candidates for this role would possess a high level of organisational skills and have the ability to work effectively both as part of a team and self-directed. You will also be able to communicate effectively with children and their families, and have the ability to plan, deliver and evaluate effective participation and engagement opportunities.

The Community Development Worker role will be a permanent, full-time role, with hybrid working available.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Contact Details

For further information on this role, please contact:

Ellen Shaw - District Manager

ellen.shaw@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

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KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county’s working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds, faiths and those with caring responsibilities, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.