Home-Start Clackmannanshire is a long standing, dynamic charity, striving to ensure every young child (under 12) has the best possible start in life locally. Raising a family has never been easy; our trained volunteers and staff are there to support families through challenging times. In Scotland, Home-Starts have over 1,500 volunteers supporting over 3,500 families and 6,500 children each year through compassionate, confidential help to parents/carers when they need us most. The parents/carers we support are often overwhelmed and isolated. They may be struggling with mental health, illness, disability, multiple births, poverty, domestic abuse, separation and/or trauma. We provide a bespoke support package of 1:1 and group services for families, helping them to cope with the stresses and strains of daily life and encourage them to build the skills, confidence, and strength they need to nurture their children for years to come.

We are looking to welcome a new Family Support Group Worker to our team due to an exciting new partnership with Action for Children, to build a pre-5’s service locally for families. This is a fixed term contract, with potential for extension, funding dependent.

Purpose of the job

Home-Start Clackmannanshire and Action for Children are working in partnership, with the support of our local Child Wellbeing Partnership, to develop a communities based, group support system, providing a nurturing and educational environment for children and their parents/carers. This new service aims to enhance positive well-being, parent-child attachment, and support early childhood development, providing the foundations for children to flourish.

We are looking for an enthusiastic practitioner who is knowledgeable in child development and has experience working with children and their families in both group settings and on a one-to-one basis.

This role will work closely with our current Family Support Group Workers, supporting our aspiration to work in partnership locally to offer supportive and enriching environments for young families.

As a Family Support Group Worker, you will work closely with our team, and our partners Action for Children, to support the development of children and parents by creating fun and interesting environments/activities to enhance skills, promote emotional resilience, encourage positive behaviours and routines.