Parent Support Worker United Kingdom
Job description
Are you passionate about supporting families aged 0-19? Are you motivated to address health & wellbeing needs, empowering local families? Then this could be the job for you!
Come and be a part of this exciting service working across Wyre Forest – please note this is office based and community work.
At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.
Service Aims:
The Starting Well Partnership has delivered services for children, young people, and families across Worcestershire since April 2020.
The Partnership, which is led by Hereford and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust and includes Barnardo's, Action for Children and Bromsgrove and Redditch Borough Council, brings together a range of teams from health visitors, specialist nursery nurses, breastfeeding support, school health nurses, early help services and support for children who require more specialist care.
They support ‘parents to be' and their children during the early years and will ensure young people's health needs are met as they move through school towards adulthood. Starting Well Family Hubs in each of the county's six districts offer a range of support including parenting groups.
The Partnership works alongside schools to identify and address health and wellbeing needs empowering local families and young people to access networks and groups across the community to get the help and support they need.
Job Purpose:
To provide advice, support and services to children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. (Specifics of Service attached as applicable).
Key Responsibilities:
- To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
- To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
- To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
- To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.
- To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to case reports.
- To identify, recruit and retain families with a focus on engaging vulnerable families e.g. known to social care, resident in most deprived areas, care leaver or teenage parents.
- Deliver a comprehensive range of positive parenting support services and evidence-based groups to parents and carers ensuring access to services is available when needed.
- To provide information, advice and guidance and education to support the confidence and resilience of parents ‘to-be' and vulnerable parents and carers in their parenting.
- In relation to the provision of positive parenting support services and groups, work with partners from other agencies or services to co-ordinate and deliver bespoke support packages which meet each family's needs; being responsive to their changing needs.
- To work in alignment with Health Visitors to provide ‘sessions for expectant and new parents with a focus on vulnerable families e.g. known to social care, resident in most deprived areas, care leaver or teenage parents.
- Use the identified Assessment processes to work together with families and other agencies to identify the causes of concern affecting the whole family, to build on the strengths within the family and be part of a plan within the parenting remit.
- Lead an assertive but supportive approach with families to engage families in identifying and implementing solutions, whilst building on the positive views of children, young people, parents, and carers.
- To develop and maintain relationships and environments to provide the best possible service to improve the health, social and emotional well-being of children and expectant parents and families.
- Through use of evidence-based monitoring tools demonstrate progress of parents with improved parenting capacity following support.
- To ensure a happy, safe, stimulating, and nurturing environment is provided for all children and parents/carers accessing the Family Hubs.
- To provide a high-quality service to service users by maintaining confidentiality.
*See additional information sheet for more detail about job role.
The Job Description and Person Specification reflect the duties of the post as they exist at this time and may be subject to change based on the needs of the Department Programme.
The post-holder may be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the salary and competence requirements of this post from time to time as required.
Person Specification (E = Essential, D = Desirable)
Candidates will need to demonstrate and evidence the following:
- Knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and young people (E).
- Level 3 Qualification (E).
- Experience working with families including children and young people (E).
- Understanding of child development, family functioning and parent styles (E).
- Ability to work effectively in partnership and collaboration with families and local agencies (E).
- Demonstrable experience of good written and electronic case recording (E).
- Ability to communicate effectively and with a nurturing nature with children, young people and families, especially those for a hard to engage (E).
- Knowledge of Trauma Informed Practice (D).
Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc.
WORKPLACE OFFER: WHAT IT MEANS FOR YOU
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
Flexibility
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thans to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which should be in place by 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
About Barnardo's
At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.
Barnardo's is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce for staff and volunteers. We actively encourage applications from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within Barnardo's.
Our basis and values
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 35 per week
Salary: £18,154.00-£19,606.00 per year
Benefits:
- Wellness programme
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- social work: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- HCPC (preferred)
Work Location: On the road
Reference ID: 14714
