We are looking for an experienced, forward‑thinking Best Start Family Hub Team Manager to lead service delivery within Sheffield. As part of our Best Start Family Hubs model, you will manage a team of Family Hub Coordinators and specialist early years staff in a defined area of Sheffield as well as leading of specific areas of service development citywide, ensuring high‑quality support for families from pregnancy through to age 19 or 25 for those with SEND. You will work alongside a small team of Best Start Family Hub Team Managers as part of our committed management team.

You will play a key role in shaping how families experience early help in their local community, strengthening connections, reducing barriers to support, and promoting inclusive, accessible services. With a clear focus on the early years, school readiness/Good Level of Development, Public Health priorities including the delivery of the Start Well Sheffield Programme, SEND early support, and partnership‑driven locality delivery, you will ensure that our Hubs are welcoming, safe, responsive spaces where families receive the right help at the right time.

Building strong relationships across health, education, social care, and voluntary and community partners is essential to this role, as is maintaining high practice standards and driving continuous improvement. You will be confident inoperational oversight, staff supervision, performance management, and using local data and insight to shape services.

We are seeking a strong team player who can also work independently, with a proven background in leadership and management in the public sector, particularly within early years, early help, and locality‑based family services. You will bring professional curiosity, a commitment to delivering high‑quality and equitable services, and a passion for improving outcomes for babies, children, young people and their families.

If you are motivated by community impact, partnership working, and leading teams to deliver excellent early years and family support, we would love to hear from you.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. New job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council | Sheffield City Council

Informal Contact:

Emily Taaffe Emily.Taaffe@sheffield.gov.uk 0114 2736123