Early Years Prevention Worker

Sheffield City Council

• Location: Sheffield


• Salary: £25,584-27,711 per year


• Type: Permanent


• Hours: Full-time

Early Years Prevention Worker Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for both full and part time Early Years Prevention Workers to join the locality teams within Sheffield Family HUBs. Delivering services to families from pre-birth until children reach 5 years old. We are looking for an experienced individual who has been part of a multi-agency setting or team, as either a worker or volunteer.

As part of your role, you will be required to deliver groups and activities to children and families as part of the Start for Life strategy. Therefore, a sound knowledge of child development and the ability to support families to promote health and wellbeing of children and children's readiness for school is one of the key requirements. In addition to delivering groups, you will also be expected to support families on a one-to-one basis within their home environment. Signposting and engaging parents and carers to take up and access services.

Skills we are looking for include:

• Being a good communicator


• Confident at working with multi-agency partners


• Able to work on your own initiative but also as part of a team


• Able to implement and be aware of safeguarding policies relevant to your role

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.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

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.

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for both full and part time Early Years Prevention Workers to join the locality teams within Sheffield Family HUBs. Delivering services to families from pre-birth until children reach 5 years old. We are looking for an experienced individual who has been part of a multi-agency setting or team, as either a worker or volunteer.
As part of your role, you will be required to deliver groups and activities to children and families as part of the Start for Life strategy.
Therefore, a sound knowledge of child development and the ability to support families to promote health and wellbeing of children and children's readiness for school is one of the key requirements. In addition to delivering groups, you will also be expected to support families on a one-to one basis within their home environment. Signposting and engaging parents and carers to take up and access services.
Skills we are looking for include being a good communicator, confident at working with multi-agency partners, able to work on your own initiative but also as part of a team and able to implement and be aware of safeguarding policies relevant to your role.

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. Find out more on our