About the role
Join Our Family. Help Shape the Future.
There has never been a more exciting time to join Family Hubs in North Northamptonshire.
We are at the heart of an ambitious transformation programme that is reshaping how we support children, young people and families across our communities. Through our Family Hubs and Best Start in Life approach, we are bringing together services, expertise and partners to create an integrated system of support that helps every child thrive and gives families access to the help they need, when they need it.
As our services continue to grow and evolve, we are looking for passionate, skilled and motivated individuals to join our Family Hub family and play a key role in delivering this vision.
We are currently recruiting for:
- Best Start Inclusion Practitioners (BSIP)
- Infant Feeding Practitioners
- Best Start in Life Practitioners
- Parenting Coordinator
- Healthy Early Years Practitioner – in Partnership with Public Health
These are exciting opportunities to be part of a supportive, innovative and forward-thinking team that is committed to improving outcomes for children and families and ensuring every child has the best possible start in life.
If you are passionate about making a difference and want to be part of a service that is shaping the future of family support in North Northamptonshire, we'd love to hear from you.
Come and be part of our family. Together, we're building brighter futures and giving children the best start in life.
Helping Families Thrive Through Compassionate, Evidence-Based Infant Feeding Support
Introduction
Family Hubs are committed to giving every child the best start in life. As an Infant Feeding Outreach Worker, you will play a vital role in supporting parents and carers across North Northamptonshire to make informed infant feeding choices, access timely support, and build confidence in nurturing their baby's healthy development. Working within local communities and alongside a wide range of partners, you will help create breastfeeding-friendly environments, promote positive infant feeding practices, and ensure families receive the right support at the right time. Through outreach, engagement, and practical guidance, you will help improve outcomes for babies, young children, and their families.
What will you be doing?
- Provide friendly, practical infant feeding support to families through Family Hubs, community venues and outreach activities.
- Support parents to achieve their feeding goals with advice on breastfeeding, bottle feeding, expressing and introducing solids.
- Identify feeding concerns early, offering guidance and connecting families with specialist support when needed.
- Deliver outreach activities to engage families who may face barriers to accessing support.
- Help embed UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) standards across Family Hubs and promote breastfeeding-friendly environments.
- Work closely with health professionals, partner organisations and peer support services to provide coordinated support.
- Facilitate infant feeding groups, workshops and community sessions that build parental confidence and peer networks.
- Signpost families to practical resources and services that support healthy infant feeding.
- Contribute to monitoring outcomes and continually improving the Family Hubs infant feeding offer.
- Maintain professional knowledge, follow safeguarding procedures and support the wellbeing of children and families at all times.
This role requires the post holder to deliver services in person and involves travel to various locations across their cluster and may include supporting across North Northamptonshire on occasion
The role may require working outside office hours on occasion but by prior agreement
About you
- Evidence of relevant qualification or experience in supporting children, families, health, early years, community or family support services.
- Experience of working directly with families, parents or young children.
- Experience of providing information, advice and support to families.
- Understanding of infant feeding, early development and responsive parenting approaches.
- Ability to communicate clearly and sensitively with families, adapting communication style to meet individual needs.
- Ability to build trusting relationships and work collaboratively with partner agencies.
- Ability to facilitate group sessions and activities.
- Ability to identify concerns and appropriately signpost or escalate.
- Ability to demonstrate awareness and understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and the importance of reducing barriers to accessing support.
- Commitment to safeguarding children and families. Ability totravel effectively across community locations.
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 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.
Disability Confident Employer
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.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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