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We advertise new vacancies every week for our services across the UK, including front-line, management, and administrative positions in our services, apprenticeship opportunities, and roles in our central support functions (such as Finance, HR, Marketing).

About us

At Family Action we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869 and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

We are incredibly honoured to have won Charity of the Year at Third Sector Awards in 2021 and have been awarded a 3 Star accreditation from Best Companies, which shows that we are an organisation that takes workplace engagement seriously. This accreditation signifies ‘world class’ levels of workplace engagement. Lastly, Family Action is placed 7th best charity and 55th best large company in the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ lists for 2021. This is an achievement we are extremely proud of and which reflects how our employees feel about working for Family Action.

We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills then we look forward to hearing from you.

We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. All roles in Family Action are open to a discussion about possible flexible working options, subject to business needs, and all new starters will have the right to make a flexible working request from day one of employment. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. You’ll have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.

Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.

We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQIA+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support. As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria as outlined in the person specification and will reimburse any reasonable travel costs associated with attending an interview.