About

• Team: 0-19 Support & Intervention – Dunstable Children’s Centre
• Family: Supporting - CBG7
• Salary: £28,598 - £31,022 per annum pro rata
• Hours: 37 hours per week
• Location:  Dunstable Locality Children's Centre
• Contract: Fixed - Fixed Term for 12 months
• Closing Date: 30th September 2025
• Interview Date: TBC
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About the role

• The Children’s Centre Family Workers supports the work the Children’s Centres do in improving outcomes for young children and their families, reducing inequalities, supporting families in greatest need in child development and school readiness, parenting aspirations, and parenting skills as well as child and family health and life chances.You will achieve this through the delivery of a range of group-based support activities, focusing on the antenatal period onwards, including the delivery of evidence-based parenting, wellbeing and domestic abuse programmes, as well as through the provision of individual support.
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• The Family Workers provide early intervention support to prevent escalation of needs through the established link with the integrated front door and through daily domestic abuse meetings and through request for support forms submitted by multi-agency professionals. Family Workers also have a key role in supporting vulnerable families that are open to our social care teams. This involves planning, implementing and reviewing tailored 1:1 support as part of a multiagency response to meeting children’s needs.
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• Level 3 Childcare or equivalent is essential.
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• Essential car user.
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• Because we are working with such vulnerable children and young people, workers would need to have sound knowledge and experience of safeguarding and working with vulnerable children and young people.
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• Our Offer
• We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
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• You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
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• Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
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• For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Natalie Wiseman at 
• natalie.wiseman@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk or call 0300 300 5602
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Safeguarding

• Central Bedfordshire Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all employees, volunteers and contractors to share this commitment. This post is subject to the disclosure of criminal records.  
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• Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours.  Please book your place here.
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• More information about this service can be found here: Support getting into work or learning | Central Bedfordshire Council
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