Location
Tower Hamlets Town Hall, 160 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1BJ (with travel across Children & Family Centres)

Hours
Full Time - 35 hours per week

Salary
£62,742 - £66,084 per annum

About the Role
Tower Hamlets is transforming Early Help for children, young people and families with energy, ambition and a learning culture, embedding the Family Hubs model across the borough. This role is central to delivering our Best Start for Life ambitions through Family Hubs, ensuring families access joined-up, evidence-based support from pregnancy through early years and beyond.

As Health & Wellbeing Coordinator, you will provide strategic and clinically informed leadership for health and wellbeing across the whole family journey—from pre-conception and pregnancy through early years, school age, adolescence, and for parents/carers. You will focus on improving outcomes and reducing inequalities by integrating universal and targeted support across Early Help and Family Hubs, ensuring timely, proportionate, and evidence-based help.

You will lead the Baby Feeding & Wellbeing Service and drive UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative (BFI) accreditation within Children & Family Centres, embedding consistent practice, workforce development, and high-quality engagement with parents and communities. Using public health intelligence and JSNA priorities, you will shape strategy, translate research into practice, and manage budgets and performance to meet KPIs and deliver measurable impact.

Additionally, you will have lead responsibility for SEND integration across Early Help, strengthening inclusive pathways and multi-agency collaboration so children and young people with SEND and their families can access proportionate, joined-up support, including seamless step-up/step-down with partners.

This role actively aligns Tower Hamlets Early Help with national reforms such as Best Start for Life and Families First for Children social care reforms, supporting the shift toward Family Help and strengthening whole-family plans and early intervention.

Key responsibilities include:
- Whole-system health & wellbeing leadership across Early Help, aligning policy and practice to evidence to tackle inequalities.
- Infant feeding leadership, staff development, clinical supervision, and community engagement.
- Leading UNICEF BFI accreditation activities across Children & Family Centres.
- SEND integration within Early Help, embedding pathways and multi-agency collaboration.
- Managing performance, budgets, and reporting, including Public Health grant-funded activity.

Tower Hamlets offers a dynamic, diverse, and ambitious environment with a modern, flexible workplace at the award-winning Town Hall in Whitechapel, close to transport links. We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion, guided by our TOWER values: Together, Open, Willing, Excellent, Respect.

Experience
Proven leadership, supervision, budget management, and performance reporting experience. Deep knowledge of infant feeding and early child development. Experience working across NHS and local government interfaces is essential.

About you
You are a skilled communicator and collaborator with the ability to turn insight into service-level impact. You are passionate about improving outcomes and reducing inequalities for children, young people, and families. You embrace the values of Together, Open, Willing, Excellent, and Respect and are committed to inclusive practice.

Qualifications
You are a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN), Midwife, or hold a Masters degree in Public Health or a related field.