Parents in Mind Service Delivery Manager (Warrington & Halton Warrington, North West England, England
Job description
Job Title: Parents in Mind Service Delivery Manager, Warrington and Halton
Salary: £28665 per annum (£24,570 pro-rata salary)
Hours per week: 30 hours per week initially until April 2024, but with the possibility of extension, subject to funding
Location: Home based across Warrington and Halton
Are you a mother or birthing person looking for new challenge? Do you have lived experience of struggles with your own wellbeing whilst caring for a baby? Are you passionate about enhancing parent-infant relationships?
About the role
We are looking for a talented individual to manage Parents in Mind perinatal mental health peer support across Warrington and Halton. This role is home-based but will include regular meetings (sometimes at short notice) across Warrington/Halton, so the ability to travel and a flexible approach to working are essential. The post will be for 30 hours per week.
With some support, the post holder will need to use their excellent networking and people skills to recruit and mobilise local volunteer teams, promote pathways into peer support for new clients, and liaise with other local services to continually integrate Parents in Mind into their pathways too.
You must have excellent written and oral communication skills and be able to quickly create rapport with commissioners, volunteers, service users, NCT practitioners and a range of staff from local services. The pastoral aspects of this role will include regular check ins with Parents in Mind peer supporters and also local staff, to ensure they remain confident and feel well supported in their roles, and so are readily able to provide service users with safe, well-informed and reliable support.
An understanding of mental health support is also essential to the post, as you will be one of the first points of contact for new referrals. This is a complex project, so you must be able to confidently prioritise your own work, be highly organised and able to work independently. In this leading role, the post holder will be an ambassador for the service across the locality, so outstanding relationship building skills are vital. Good IT skills will also be required – including use of Outlook, Word and Excel – and preparing professional quarterly reports for funders will be central to the post. Ideally you will also have the skills to be able to engage with parents via social media.
It is essential for this post that you are, or undertake the training to become, a Parents in Mind peer supporter. This training requires lived experience/close support of another who has experienced mental health difficulties during the transition to parenthood.
We are happy to talk about how the hours could be worked flexibly across the week.
Please visit our website for details relating to the job description.
We are taking positive action to increase diversity throughout our organisation, at all levels, and to nurture a culture of inclusion for all our people and the parents and families that we support. More details about our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion action can be found here.
We are committed to zero discrimination both internally and externally regardless of visible or invisible difference such as sex, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnicity, disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, religion or belief, gender identity, economic class, marital/civil partnership, family status including single parents, socio-economic background and pregnancy and maternity. We provide reasonable adjustments and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
We welcome and actively encourage applications from all candidates including those from under-represented groups within NCT such as individuals from Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQI+ people and people with a disability.
The welfare and safety of individuals is at the heart of everything that we do. NCT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults and expects all staff to share this commitment.
Please apply for the role via our careers page
Closing date for applications: 12pm, 14th August 2023
Interviews: 16th August 2023
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 30 per week
Salary: £24,000.00-£24,570.00 per year
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Warrington, WA1
