Community Support Practitioner (Maternity Cover)

You will hold a professional qualification and have a background in education, health, social care, or disability.

Location: Home-based with some travel

Hours: Full-time

Contract: Fixed-term, 12 months (Dec 2025 – Nov 2026)

The role
Spinal Muscular Atrophy UK’s Community Support Team provides practical guidance and emotional support to adults, children, young people, and their families affected by any form of SMA across the UK. 

As a Community Support Practitioner, you will play a key role in delivering compassionate, confidential, and responsive support at all stages of life. This may include times of particular challenge or change, such as receiving an SMA diagnosis, or navigating transitions into nursery, school, higher education, employment, or independent living. 

Your work will be varied and person-centred. You may be directly supporting families and individuals with issues relating to care packages, housing, equipment, education, access to treatments, and welfare benefits. 

To provide the highest standard of service, you will collaborate closely with colleagues across the charity, including those specialising in information provision, advocacy, and community engagement, ensuring families and individuals feel well-informed, supported, and connected. 

You will hold a professional qualification and have a background in education, health, social care, or disability.  You will work from home and connect virtually with the team with flexibility to attend meetings at our office base in Stratford upon Avon as required.  

We are committed to equal opportunities and to safeguarding children and adults at risk. We expect all applicants to share this commitment.

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Salary
£36,000 per annum for full-time. This is a fixed term contract for 12-month, (December 2025 – November 2026) Maternity leave cover, with a possibility of this being extended.

Location
SMA UK’s office is in Stratford-upon-Avon. This is primarily a remote working role but will require occasional travel to the office and other locations across the UK.  

Interested?
We are a disability-friendly, flexible employer. If you have any questions about the role not answered in the job description, please phone 01789 267520 and ask to speak to our Head of Support, or, apply now by sending the following information to office@smauk.org.uk: 

• your up-to-date CV,  

• a personal statement (max 2 sides of A4) telling us, why you are the right person for this role, and how your background, skills and experience combine with the personal determination and professionalism needed to represent our community and our charity.

• The role will be offered subject to suitable references, and a DBS check.  

• a completed DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION MONITORING FORM (OPTIONAL)

• Applications should reach us by 5pm on the 27th October 2025

• Interviews will be held at our office in Stratford-upon-Avon in early November

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