Community Connector

**Job Title**:
**Northfield Families Community Connector**

**Department**:
**Northfield Locality Early Help**

**Responsible to**:
Northfield Early Help Manager.

**Accountable to**:
Operations Manager/Early Help Lead

**Pay band**:
£25,000 per annum based on a FTE

**Location**:
Locality community hub - Northfield Constituency

**Hours of Work**:
Full Time based on 36.5hrs

**Contract**:
Initial fixed-term length until 31 March 2025

**Disclosure required**:
Enhanced

**The Setting**:Birmingham is a youthful diverse and creative city currently delivering a programme of early help support for the young people (0-25) and families across health, education, vocational training & social care. The ‘Early Help’ programme is being established across the 10 localities, led in part by the voluntary sector - helping to create local networks of support for families where it can be most effective. We are currently seeking to employ a ‘**Community Connector’ **role to map voluntary and community organisations in the Northfield Locality, and to share this information across all services and with families.

Our vision is one where families, whether they are asking for early help support or are in specialist services, can get support or help in their neighbourhood, and where they can be connected to all the wider opportunities that are available in the city, arts, leisure, sport, recreation.

The post holder will play an exciting role in helping to re-engineer a step-change in community and family-focused support for children and families and the post holder will need to demonstrate a wide understanding of the diversity of the city and an ability to work with all communities.

**The Person**:We are looking for a dynamic and energetic communicator, capable of engaging with key stakeholder organisations as well as vulnerable individuals across defined locality regions. You will need to be digitally literate; with a deep understanding of the importance of inclusivity, equalities and diversity, able to clearly articulate the delivery of network training to a wide range of stakeholder organisations and positive about change.

**Job Purpose**: Community Connectors are responsible for building Early Help (0-25 years) capacity, connections, community agency and resilience within the 10 designated Localities in Birmingham. The role involves building working relationships for Children, Young people and Families across Community, Voluntary and Statutory Organisation (including schools and training providers, Health Providers, Business and community stakeholders within the Locality Partnership).

What we have learnt in the work so far in the city is that many staff working across the public sector and voluntary sector don’t know what support, or organisations are available in a neighbourhood. The Community Connectors role is to change this situation, and make sure all families can connect to support, help, activities, interests as part of a range of early help support.

**Key Relationships**
- The post holder will engage with all the many and various community and voluntary organisations in a locality.
- The post holder will work with all communities in the city, particularly ensuring that the diversity of the city is reflected in the mapping of assets and support.
- The post holder will engage and interact with a broad range of health, education vocational and social care organisations and networks that make up the Early Help Network in their Locality.
- The post holder will liaise closely with the Early Help Lead Community Coordinator & relevant Public Sector services, housing and related team members.
- The post holder will engage and interact with Youth and Family forums in the locality to help establish community priorities and need
- The post holder will interface with digital self-help and social prescribing resource leads and local stakeholder organisations and individuals.
- The post holder will work closely with the Locality and cross-sector organisations staff teams; and develop mechanisms for cross-connections working.
- Supervision and line management will be through NCP Team structures.

**Community Mapping & Engagement**
- To map local community assets of all relevant organisations and service providers in the locality
- Support the translation of mapped community assets into a responsive digital network resource, and share widely across the locality
- Support fluid and responsive ‘community prescribing’ resource for locality schools and community stakeholders that is easily shared and accessible
- Support work with community providers to enable a ‘live’ understanding of community needs and resource capacity as part of a ‘gaps analysis’ of the Early Help offer across the locality
- To assist individuals and families/carers to engage with and utilise personal and local community networks to develop solutions to meet their personal aspirations and needs
- Develop an informed understanding of the ke