Head of Family Hubs and Early Help

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About the role

Exciting Leadership Opportunity: Head of Family Hubs and Early Help at North Northamptonshire Council

North Northamptonshire Council is seeking an experienced and dynamic leader for the role of Head of Family Hubs and Early Help. This key position will drive the transition of our Family Hubs and Start for Life programme into business as usual and establish a new Early Help Team Around the Family Service, supporting families from conception to age 19 (or 25 with SEND).

Family Hubs provide families with access to essential services, including education, mental health, physical health, with Start for Life at its core, offering critical support to children, young people, and parents. In this role, you will ensure that early support is delivered at the right time, in the right place by the right person across a collaborative network of partners.

What will you be doing?

You will lead the strategic development of early help services, fostering innovation and partnership working with health, education, social care, and the voluntary and community sector to achieve impactful outcomes for children, young people, and families. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of family support services in North Northamptonshire.

If you're a visionary leader with a passion for driving change, we'd love to hear from you!

About you

We are looking for a strategic leader with a passion for supporting families and improving outcomes for children and young people. You should have experience in leading complex services, with a strong focus on early intervention and prevention. Your experience should also include:

• Extensive leadership in multi-agency partnerships and the development of integrated services.
• A proven ability to drive service improvement, using data and intelligence to evaluate the impact of interventions.
• Experience in managing budgets, ensuring financial accountability, and contributing to meeting efficiency targets.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to engage with diverse communities and partners to deliver collaborative solutions.
• A commitment to the development of staff, ensuring professional growth and providing guidance to ensure high standards of practice.

If you're a proactive leader with a track record of delivering positive outcomes in family support services, we'd love to hear from you. Join us in making a difference to the families and communities of North Northamptonshire!

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council's pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)