Family Hub Community Navigator
| Posting date: | 04 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £25,492.40 to £29,726.27 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | Plymouth, South West England |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 21010 |
Summary
Join our team at Plymouth Family Hubs
Barnardo's invites you to become a vital part of our dynamic team providing impactful services to children and families in Plynouth within our Family Hubs and communities. We aim to support communities and families to become resilient by making services accessible and reducing barriers to engagement. The Family Hub locations are:
The Barn – Barn Barton
Four Woods – West Park
Four Greens – Whitleigh
Green Ark – Devonport
Hendwell Centre – Southway
High View – Efford
Lark – North Prospect
Mannor Street – Stone House
Morice Town – Morice Town
Nomony – East End
Rees – Plympton
As a Family Hub Community Navigator, you will play a crucial role in fostering warm, supportive relationships with communities and individual families. You will promote the support available within Family Hubs through attending events and activities, facilitating targeted interventions in response to emerging needs and identified trends. Work with a variety of professionals and agencies to support and encourage engagement of vulnerable children and families through a variety of means including face to face, virtual and social media. Ensure that the views of children and families are at the forefront of service design through co-production.
Professional Development
Comprehensive Training: we offer robust training programs to equip you with the necessary skills to thrive in your role.
Career Growth: opportunities for professional advancement within Barnardo's and the wider Family Hub network.
Supportive Environment: join a collaborative team that values inclusivity, diversity and mutual respect.
Engaging work
Varied Responsibilities: Engage in a range of activities promoting health and wellbeing, providing support and information and connecting families with services, professionals and agencies.
Community impact: Be at the frontline of creating change and building resilience within communities, ensuring every family is supported effectively.
Key responsibilities:
Attend and represent Plymouth Family Hubs, delivering targeted interventions across the city in response to emerging needs or specific focuses.
Provide training, support, and guidance to schools, early years settings, and other organisations.
Organise and promote community events, workshops, and national campaigns to raise awareness of available support.
Drive engagement into locality-based parent carer panels
Provide clear guidance and support to families, helping them connect with the right services at the right time.
Additional Benefits
Inclusive Culture: Work within a diverse team that prioritises a strength based, trauma informed and relational approach to service delivery.
Innovative Projects: Participate in innovative projects and initiatives that drives community engagement and development.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with professionals and service providers across the city expanding your professional networks.
Join us at Barnardo's Plymouth Family Hubs and be part of a supportive, forward-thinking organisation dedicated to making a difference. Together, let's build stronger, more resilient communities and crate a brighter future for all families.
If you would like any further information please contact Tracy Tucker, Children's Services Managers on 07850541263 or email tracy.tucker@barnardos.org.uk
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
Barnardo's invites you to become a vital part of our dynamic team providing impactful services to children and families in Plynouth within our Family Hubs and communities. We aim to support communities and families to become resilient by making services accessible and reducing barriers to engagement. The Family Hub locations are:
The Barn – Barn Barton
Four Woods – West Park
Four Greens – Whitleigh
Green Ark – Devonport
Hendwell Centre – Southway
High View – Efford
Lark – North Prospect
Mannor Street – Stone House
Morice Town – Morice Town
Nomony – East End
Rees – Plympton
As a Family Hub Community Navigator, you will play a crucial role in fostering warm, supportive relationships with communities and individual families. You will promote the support available within Family Hubs through attending events and activities, facilitating targeted interventions in response to emerging needs and identified trends. Work with a variety of professionals and agencies to support and encourage engagement of vulnerable children and families through a variety of means including face to face, virtual and social media. Ensure that the views of children and families are at the forefront of service design through co-production.
Professional Development
Comprehensive Training: we offer robust training programs to equip you with the necessary skills to thrive in your role.
Career Growth: opportunities for professional advancement within Barnardo's and the wider Family Hub network.
Supportive Environment: join a collaborative team that values inclusivity, diversity and mutual respect.
Engaging work
Varied Responsibilities: Engage in a range of activities promoting health and wellbeing, providing support and information and connecting families with services, professionals and agencies.
Community impact: Be at the frontline of creating change and building resilience within communities, ensuring every family is supported effectively.
Key responsibilities:
Attend and represent Plymouth Family Hubs, delivering targeted interventions across the city in response to emerging needs or specific focuses.
Provide training, support, and guidance to schools, early years settings, and other organisations.
Organise and promote community events, workshops, and national campaigns to raise awareness of available support.
Drive engagement into locality-based parent carer panels
Provide clear guidance and support to families, helping them connect with the right services at the right time.
Additional Benefits
Inclusive Culture: Work within a diverse team that prioritises a strength based, trauma informed and relational approach to service delivery.
Innovative Projects: Participate in innovative projects and initiatives that drives community engagement and development.
Networking Opportunities: Connect with professionals and service providers across the city expanding your professional networks.
Join us at Barnardo's Plymouth Family Hubs and be part of a supportive, forward-thinking organisation dedicated to making a difference. Together, let's build stronger, more resilient communities and crate a brighter future for all families.
If you would like any further information please contact Tracy Tucker, Children's Services Managers on 07850541263 or email tracy.tucker@barnardos.org.uk
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.