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Join us as a Locality Engagement Assistant and make a real difference in shaping family services across Cheshire East!

We are looking for a passionate and proactive Locality Engagement Assistant to join our team across the North of Cheshire East. In this role, you’ll help strengthen connections between families, communities, and local services. You’ll play a key part in delivering the Family Hub and Best Start in Life offer, ensuring families have access to the right support at the right time.

You’ll work closely with local partners, community groups, and families to promote engagement, gather feedback, and shape services that truly reflect community needs. This is an opportunity to make a real difference by empowering families and improving outcomes for children and young people.

About us

At Cheshire East Council we are resident, and partner focused with a vision to enable prosperity and wellbeing for all. People really are at the heart of everything we do and that starts with our incredible workforce. We promote a culture of high performance where people can aspire, thrive and flourish, where we strive to deliver best value in everything we do.

For us, success isn’t just about what we achieve, but how we achieve it together. We promote curiosity, excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.

We are values led and committed to wellbeing and inclusion for all, where our employees co-created our values of drive, integrity, respect and collaboration which inform all that we do.

We are proud to work for Cheshire East Council and believe you would be too!

Join us on a meaningful journey in Children’s Social Care at Cheshire East Council

We’re on a meaningful journey in Children’s Social Care and we’d love for you to be part of it. Joining us means becoming part of a supportive, forward-thinking team that’s passionate about making a real difference in the lives of children and young people. Everything we do is about putting them first, helping them grow, thrive and reach their full potential so they can build brighter futures.

If this sounds like the kind of impact you want to make, we’d be delighted to hear from you. Come and join us in shaping positive change for our young people.

About the role:

• Work in partnership with voluntary, community, and faith sector organisations to develop Family Hub services across local communities.
• Promote and use a range of consultation and participation models to enable families to influence decisions that affect their lives.
• Support the facilitation of Family Hub participation groups to strengthen collaboration between services and parents.
• Help children, young people, and families build confidence and skills to take part in decision-making processes.
• Identify gaps in provision and contribute to multi-agency planning to improve services.
• Assist in sourcing external funding to support local development and activities.
• Promote volunteering opportunities and signpost individuals willing to contribute their time.
• Actively engage underrepresented groups to ensure their voices are heard in shaping services.
• Contribute to meetings and reports that inform leadership decisions.

This is just a snapshot of some of the exciting things you’ll be doing in the role, to find out more about the other key responsibilities of the role please view the attached job description.

About you:

• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills and can confidently engage with a wide range of people.
• You’ll be proactive in promoting services and building relationships with families and partners.
• You have strong ICT skills and can manage information effectively.
• You’ll be well organised, with good time management and attention to detail.
• You’re flexible and willing to travel across the borough, including occasional evening or weekend work.
• You’ll demonstrate a commitment to inclusivity and the Council’s values of Drive, Integrity, Respect, and Collaboration.

To find out more about the essential and desirable criteria for the role please view the attached job description specification document.

Company: Cheshire East Council

Salary: £25,583 - £25,989

Location: Cheshire / various, Cheshire

Sector: Health and Social Care

Sector: Social Care

Sector: Family Services

Job Role: Support Worker