Senior Community Support Practitioner - 2606

About Us

Spurgeons is a leading childrens charity committed to supporting vulnerable children, young people and families to achieve lasting change.

Working in partnership with Wiltshire Council, our Family Hub teams provide early help and wraparound support to families across the county, helping to strengthen relationships, build resilience and improve outcomes for families.

We are now looking for an experienced Senior Community Support Practitioner to join our West Wiltshire Family Hub team, working directly with families in the community, supporting them to access the right services at the right time.

About The Role

• Manage a small caseload of families, providing targeted early help support within the community
• Support families to access appropriate local services that improve outcomes for children
• Build strong partnerships with schools, health services and voluntary organisations
• Represent the Family Hub at multi‑agency meetings and local partnership groups
• Line manage Family Navigators and supervise volunteers delivering family support
• Collect and report outcome data to demonstrate impact and support service development
  
  

About You

• Hold a Level 3 or 4 qualification in family support, youth work, community development or similar
• Have experience supporting children and families through early intervention or outreach
• Have knowledge and experience of safeguarding and child development
• Be confident working with families from diverse communities
• Have experience working in partnership with other professionals or services
• Be able to work flexibly across community settings within West Wiltshire
  
  

Spurgeons is one of the UKs leading childrens charities, firmly supported by Christian beliefs and values, helping to support vulnerable children and their families through delivering projects to support children, young people, their families, and communities to find long-lasting solutions to the challenges they face.

We create family hubs where we’re needed most, providing support with mental health, special educational needs, domestic abuse and all of family life’s challenges. We work through children and family centres, churches, schools and prisons. Putting children first in everything.

The Benefits

• Continuous professional development
• In house learning platform
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Salary sacrifice pension with employers contribution of up to 7%
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• BHFS Health Cash Plan
• Life assurance 2 times annual salary
• Enhanced annual leave
• Additional paid time off at Christmas
• Flu vouchers
• Eye test reclaim
  
  

If you want to find out more about working at Spurgeons please visit our website.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and young people we serve. This post is subject to necessary safeguarding checks including an appropriate level DBS Disclosure.

Spurgeons is a Living Wage Employer.

We actively encourage applications from a broad and deep range of backgrounds and experiences. We are a Disability Confident Employer.

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