Location: Derby
Hours: 37 hours per week
Closing Date: Monday 22nd June 2026
Contract Type: Fixed Term, 3 years
Are you passionate about connecting families with the support they need to thrive? Derby City Council are excited to recruit 2 Family Hub Navigator roles within our Best Start Family Hubs Team.
Best Start Family Hubs provide a universal ‘front door’ to families, acting as a one-stop shop for information, advice, and services across social care, education, and health. At the heart of this is the Healthy Babies offer and we need dynamic, proactive Navigators to make it work.
What will you be doing?
- Supporting families to access services through signposting, personal connections and removing barriers to engagement.
- Facilitating Parent Carer Panels to ensure families influence service design and delivery.
- Engaging families in key programmes including infant feeding, perinatal mental health, and peer support.
- Collaborating with local agencies, GPs, libraries, schools, and other community venues to support outreach and engagement.
- Helping to identify and map local community assets, support networks and gaps in provision.
- Working with professionals and stakeholders across the city to ensure joined-up service delivery.
- Collecting data and evidence to demonstrate impact and inform service improvement.
Who We Are
Here at Derby City Council, we’re dedicated to delivering nearly 250 first-class services to citizens and businesses in the heart of the Midlands. People are at the centre of all that we do, and we have an outstanding track record of recruiting and developing talented individuals by providing them with varied and fulfilling career opportunities.Find out more about what it’s like to work for us.
What We Offer
You too could be part of something brilliant by becoming a colleague at Derby City Council; in addition to making a difference to the lives of people across the city, you’ll also receive:
- Flexible work/life balance scheme (depending on your role)
- Modern office environment (depending on your job location)
- Continued professional development opportunities & career conversations
- 27 days annual leave (rising to 32 days after 5 years' service), plus bank holidays (depending on contract)
- Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on contract)
- Team Derby Rewards – retail and leisure discounts
- Tusker Car Benefit Scheme
- Cycle2Work Scheme & free cycle training
- Employee Assistance Programme, Wellbeing Calendar and Support
- Access to our Equality Employee Networks – LGBTQ+, Disabled Employee Network & Carers and our Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic Employee Support Network and Neurodiversity Network
- Support for colleagues who are carers
About You
As a Family Hub Navigator, you’ll be the vital link between services and families helping parents, carers, and young people access the support they need, where and when they need it. You’ll be working with partners, professionals, and communities to identify gaps, build networks, and empower families to engage, participate, and thrive.
This role requires enhanced DBS clearance and the ability to travel across Derby.
We’re looking for people who want to make a difference — building relationships, growing local networks, and being the connection point that helps families find their way.
Next Steps
If you would like to apply for this vacancy via an application form, please submit an application via the Derby City Council website.
The closing date for this vacancy is at midnight on Monday 22nd June 2026. Any applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
Interviews will be held: TBC
If you would prefer to apply for this job using your CV, then please download the attached Declaration Form, then send your CV and Declaration form to [email protected] . Without a completed declaration form, your application will not be accepted. We also encourage you to download the Equalities Form and return this to [email protected] , however this is optional and will not affect your application.
For an informal discussion please call Emma Falivena on 07789 504876
Important Information
Links to the full Job Description and Person Specification are below.
As part of our safer recruitment checks the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
All employees will normally be appointed to the minimum of the grade for the job.
Before you complete your application, please read our guidance on filling in your application form.
Remember to align your personal statement to the essential criteria in the Person Specification.
Please be aware that where there are colleagues within the organisation who are 'at risk' of redundancy, requirements to redeploy to another suitable role will apply and take priority.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a fair and inclusive employer and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds. We recruit for diversity and value difference. As many of our roles can now be home-based, we are able to offer more opportunities for people who need this facility.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you are a disabled person, you have the choice to apply under our Guaranteed Interview Scheme so long as you demonstrate that you meet the essential requirements for the job.
We feel it is essential that we recruit a talented workforce that is as diverse as the community we work for.
Please let us know of any individual requirements or reasonable adjustments you may have during the application, interview, or onboarding process and we’ll do all we can to help. We strongly believe in social understanding of disability and for us it’s all about removing barriers to equality.
If you have any questions regarding this vacancy or are having difficulty applying, please contact our Recruitment Team on 01332 640844 (Relay UK - 18001 01332 640 844) or at [email protected]. https://www.derby.gov.uk/signing-service/
