Senior Family Practitioner Early Years

2 weeks ago

Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom Spurgeons Full time £35,000 - £55,000 per year

About Us (bfs)
As part of the Birmingham Forward Steps Partnership, we provide early years and family support for children aged 0–19 (or 25 with SEND). Our Children's Centres and Family Hubs across Erdington, Hodge Hill, Perry Barr and Sutton Coldfield offer safe, welcoming spaces where families can access support, advice, and activities. From parenting groups and sensory rooms to health referrals and stay-and-play sessions, our experienced teams walk alongside families, helping them build on their strengths and navigate challenges. We also offer links to childcare, midwifery, and employment support. Whether face-to-face or through our Digital Family Hub, everything we do is driven by compassion, fairness, and a commitment to children's wellbeing. Join us and help make a difference where it matters most.

About The Role

  • Line management, supervision and development of the Early Years team
  • Leading safeguarding practice as Designated Safeguarding Lead
  • Overseeing the delivery of 2-year development checks and public health messaging
  • Ensuring sessions are planned with clear outcomes and meet KPIs
  • Supporting early identification and inclusion of children with SEND
  • Collaborating with partners and contributing to Family Hub development
  • Managing data, audits and quality assurance processes
  • Driving innovation and continuous improvement in early years services

About You

  • A Level 3 qualification in Early Years/Early Childhood (or equivalent), plus strong knowledge of EYFS and safeguarding
  • Confidence in delivering services in both community settings and family homes, with a whole-family approach
  • Experience supporting children with SEND and working in partnership with health and education professionals
  • Ability to plan, monitor and evaluate sessions to meet defined KPIs and service outcomes
  • Skilled in managing safeguarding concerns and with knowledge and experience to step into the role of Designated Safeguarding Lead
  • Strong communication, organisational and interpersonal skills across diverse audiences
  • A flexible, proactive approach and commitment to continuous professional development and service improvement

Spurgeons is one of the UK's leading children's 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
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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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