Family Hub Practitioner

Job profile
- The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

**Job details**:
**Job reference**

REQ00000018926

**Date posted**

15/09/2025

**Application closing date**

05/10/2025

**Location**

KENDAL

**Salary**

£32,061 - £32,597

**Package**

**Contractual hours**

37

**Basis**

Full time

**Attachments**

**Family Hub Practitioner - Kendal - WMF2293e**:
**Job description**

**Location**: Kendal
**Contract Type**: Fixed term

**About this opportunity**
- Family Hubs are a place-based way of joining up locally in the planning and delivery of family services. They bring services together to improve access, improve the connections between families, professionals, services, and providers, and put relationships at the heart of family support, offering a one stop shop for families.
Family Hubs offer support to families from conception and for children of all ages, which is 0-19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Best Start in Life offer at our core. To ensure we have an offer available to all families whether working or not, our availability will take into account being open on evenings and weekends.
**Who we are looking for**
- The post holder will develop and deliver high quality universal and targeted activities and programmes, working with children and their families from pre-birth to 19 (25 SEND) both one to one and in groups, in settings and the family home.
Are you passionate about supporting families, helping them make positive changes and improving outcomes for our children and young people? If so and you are keen to support the council to deliver excellent service to our children and families, we want to hear from you.
You will need an awareness and understanding of Family Help and Family Hubs and the ability to engage and consult with children, young people, families and their communities.
- **What can we offer you**
- Working at Westmorland and Furness Council you will receive a variety of benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and other various perks and discounts schemes. For more information about life at Westmorland and Furness Council and what we can offer you, please visit our Careers site.** Our benefits | Careers (westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk)**

**Would you like to find out more?**
- For further information about this role, such as responsibilities and essential criteria please view the below attachments:

- **Post Specification**:

- **Role Profile**

**Application and Interview information**
- Closing date: 05/10/2025
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**Safer Recruitment & DBS**
- At Westmorland and Furness Council we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and we expect all workers, employees and volunteers to share our commitment.
This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 and requires an enhanced DBS check with a Children’s Barred List check.

**Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion**
- As a Disability Confident Leader, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
We also offer guaranteed interviews to Armed Forces personnel and veterans and those in care or care experienced and under 24 years old (someone who has been looked after by a local authority at any point, for any length of time, e.g. foster care, residential care, or under the guardianship of a local authority) that meet the essential criteria for the role.
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