We’re recruiting a Family Centre Head to lead one of our vital community-based services at Moorlands Family Centre and make a lasting difference to children, young people and families across Milton Keynes.
Family Centres are based at the heart of communities. A key part of Early Help, keeping children and young people safe early on and ensuring issues are dealt with swiftly so there is less need for formal intervention. Centres support families with key safeguarding issues and domestic abuse and provide a wide cost of living support service. They are also at the heart of the Government’s Best Start to Life initiative and are moving over to becoming Best Start to Life Hubs, ensuring babies and children have the best start in life, through centre interventions and services. They also have a full inter‑agency offer, from registry offices, parenting through to zero to 19 partnership work and adult education, with attendances of over 50,000 per quarter, providing a much needed service to families and residents across the city.
Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll lead a Family Centre, managing teams, strengthening partnerships and shaping services that support families to thrive.
You’ll play a key role in delivering Early Help services, ensuring families receive the right support at the right time.
We work together to make a positive difference for our communities and to support residents to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives.
This is a Site‑Based role, and you’ll be expected to work from the designated workplace.
Interviews for this role will be held on 17th August 2026.
At Milton Keynes City Council, we aim to make a difference every day. We’re dedicated, respectful and collaborative. We act as one council, and we work hard to create cleaner, safer and healthier communities while tackling inequalities and supporting people to thrive.
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