Family Hub co-ordinator

Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance

Salary: Grade 9, £39,862 - £45,091 per annum.

37 hours per week

We're on a journey to build a workforce reflective of our Borough.

We are committed to fostering diverse teams where everybody can bring their authentic selves to work and feel that they belong. If you want to work for a Council where everybody is encouraged to meet their full potential and make a difference in our neighbourhoods, we would love to hear from you!

Your role:

As a Family Hub Co-ordinator, you will support the Family Hub Manager to co-ordinate the operational delivery, performance, and human resource within one or two of the neighbourhood Family Hubs, subject to locality size and demographics.

With experience at management level within an organisation and across partnerships providing services for children and families you will be responsible for ensuring that service delivery is underpinned by the Progress with Unity missions, and you will be passionate and professionally responsible for the co-production of services for children and families delivered at a neighbourhood level with Family Hubs at their centre.

Through effective leadership and management, within your service area you will support staff and volunteers, enabling a strength-based approach to service delivery. You will support the Family Hub Manager in ensuring that early help and prevention services are effective, outcome based and meets statutory, financial, and legal requirements through highly effective performance management oversight.

About you:

You are a motivated tenacious individual with experience in early help and prevention services as well as the delivery and co-ordination of early years, groupwork and preventative services. With an ability to develop new approaches to service delivery and provide innovative ways of working, you are able to demonstrate a genuine commitment to the goal and values of Children’s Services. You have experience of co-producing with community volunteers / groups, statutory services and voluntary organisations to build a service and of leading, coaching, managing and proving clear supervision to a targeted and/or specialist team.

About us:

Wigan Council has been voted ‘Overall Council of the Year’ at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations.

The Progress with Unity plan is a place movement for change for the next decade, bringing a new era for Wigan Borough. It draws on the strengths of our individual organisations, recognising that together we can achieve much more for our communities by delivering on our 2 place missions; create fair opportunities for all children, families, residents and businesses and make our towns and neighbourhoods flourish for those who live and work in them.

We have won Council of the Year 3 times across Public Sector Awards in the last 5 years. We have a culture that fosters positivity, courage, accountability, and kindness, rooted in asset-based ways of working, that make a difference for our residents and children. So if you want to be part of Wigan’s ambitions to become the best in delivering early help and prevention services, then we would love to hear from you.

Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for #TeamWigan.

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If you require an informal discussion about the role, please contact Karen Nock on karen.nock@wigan.gov.uk to arrange a time to chat.

Priority Candidates Interview date: Friday 8^th May 2026

Interview date: Wednesday 13^th May 2026

This position is subject to Enhanced Disclosure Procedures plus child and adult barred list check

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