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Perinatal Peer Supporter (x4 roles available), Family Action Bradford Perinatal Support Service

Based in Bradford

29.6 hours per week each (part time)

Grade 2 (lower) point 11-15: £20,579 - £23,268 FTE (£16,407.58 - £18,551.51 per annum, pro

rata)

Temporary until April 2025 but could be extended subject to further funding

Do you have experience of being a new parent? Are you a great listener who is skilled at connecting with others? Would you like to grow in a role where you can use your own lived experience to support new and expectant mums? If so, we want to hear from you.

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.

Family Action Perinatal Support Service offers one to one peer support for women, who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues pre and post birth.

Your impact

As a Peer Supporter, you will work with new and expectant mums to improve maternal mental health and emotional wellbeing, whilst helping parents to be more emotionally available for their babies. You will assess their needs, support them through their recovery journey by providing listening support sessions, and working jointly on recovery plans. You will build trusting relationships that allow service users to feel safe to share their thoughts and feelings, and ensure access to other forms of support through effective signposting.

Your skills and experience

You will have your own experience of pregnancy, birth and caring for a new born, or you will have supported someone close to you through this critical perinatal period. You will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the emotional impact of pregnancy and birth and the demands of parenthood. You will be able to empathise with the needs of families during the vital first 1001 days of their baby’s life, and be able to deliver messages about perinatal mental health, and the importance of attachment and bonding. We are looking for positive and self-motivated individuals who are keen to learn and develop within this exciting role. We are looking for excellent listening skills, empathy, and ability to build rapport. Successful candidates will also have good organisational and time management skills. You will be able to keep on top of a busy caseload whilst delivering high quality support. You will be required to travel frequently, across the Bradford district, to deliver face to face support often in people’s homes. You will be involved in developing relationships and building linkswith other professionals and local support services . You will use your connections to support service users to access local services and to generate appropriate referrals. You will provide guidance on how parents can effectively relate to their baby, promoting access to the service groupwork programme, My Baby and Me.

What will we offer you?

We will offer you a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other benefits. We are happy to talk flexible working and all roles in Family Action are open to discussion about possible flexible working, subject to business needs. We have an excellent wellbeing offer and we will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and development opportunities. You’ll join an established, supportive, and high-performing service and 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.

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 are committed to Equality, Diversity and 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, we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups. 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. We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants and will reimburse your travel cost if you attend an interview.

We would particularly welcome applications from candidates who can speak and understand Urdu, Punjabi or Bengali; or who can speak and understand Polish, Czech or Slovak. We would welcome these language skills as this will help our work, these languages are spoken in the communities we serve.

If you have any questions regarding this vacancy please contact: [email protected]

Please email completed applications to: [email protected]

Closing date: Monday 3rdJuly 2023 at 9am

Interview date: TBC

Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.

ID: 863JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Perinatal Peer Supporter (x4 roles available)

Service: Bradford Perinatal Support Service

Salary: Grade 2 Point 11-15

Hours: 29.6 hours per week each (part time)

Location: Bradford

Responsible to: Perinatal Coordinator

Summary of job:

The Family Action Perinatal Support Service provides Peer Support for new and expectant mums with mild to moderate mental health issues during the pre and post birth period . Our service users may be experiencing low mood, anxiety, and/or social isolation. Your role as a Perinatal Peer Supporter will be to provide emotional support and empower women to develop healthy recovery strategies. You will assess the needs of women who are referred into the service, provide regular listening visits, and support service users to access services within the local community where appropriate. In addition, the role will involve developing links with other professionals and local support services in order toidentify appropriate support and facilitate access for service users whilst generating appropriate referrals for the service.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

1. Utilise your own lived experience to provide peer support for women pre and post birth.

Engage with and form trusted relationships with parents and carers

Assist parents/carers in their understanding of the importance of the first 1001 days, promoting key messages and providing support to strengthen parent-child attachment.

4. Work in partnership with women to plan for and promote their recovery

5. Complete initial assessments, create plans for support, and carry out regular reviews of client need.

6. Complete outcomes measuring tools with service users to inform decision making around suitability for the service and to measure progress.

7. Complete case recording to a high standard, adhering to the service procedures and protocols.

8. Attend multi agency meetings when required.

Work in partnership with other agencies and services, and ensure that service users are signposted to appropriate support.

Develop relationships with under-represented or marginalised community groups in order to ensure the service is accessible to all.

11. Ensure all work is carried out to Family Action minimum standards and is designed and delivered to maximise agreed outcomes.

12. Ensure that all assigned work adheres to Family Actions Safeguarding Policy and ensure BSGB procedures are followed in the event of any child protection issues or concerns.

Comply with Family Action’s Health and Safety Policy, Data Protection Policy and to protect the health, safety and welfare of themselves and others.

Comply with Family Action’s Diversity & Equality Policy and our Ethical Policy in every aspect of your work and positively promote the Principles of these policies amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.

Promote a positive image of Family Action, representing the organisation in order to increase professional and public awareness of the organisation’s work and of the views and needs of service users.

Represent Family Action in relevant external and internal service related forums, participating in task groups, skill sets and service development group.

17. Participate in regular team meetings , reflective supervision and access any training required for the role.

18. Work flexibly as may be required by the needs of the service and undertake any other reasonable duties as required.

19. Evidence Family Action’s values at all times, which underpin Family Action’s mission of ‘building stronger families’ by:

a) Being people focused

b) Reflecting a ‘can do’ approach

c) Striving for excellence in everything we do

d) Having mutual respect for everyone we work with, work for and support through our services

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Requirements

Essential

Desirable

Education, Qualifications & Background

1.

A minimum of 5 GCES grade 5 or above with commitment to continued learning and professional development.

✓

2.

Minimum of NVQ level 3 /Health and Social Care or related qualification

✓

3.

Qualified in peer support

✓

Experience

4.

Personal experience of pregnancy and childbirth, or supporting someone close to you in the perinatal period

✓

5.

Experience of supporting vulnerable individuals or families

✓

Knowledge & Skills

6.

Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to form trusted relationships with women experiencing mild to moderate mental health issues pre and post birth whilst maintaining appropriate boundaries

✓

7.

Understanding of the potential emotional impact of pregnancy and birth, and the demands of parenthood on mental wellbeing .

✓

8.

Understanding of the challenges faced by a diverse range of families living in areas of high deprivation

✓

9.

Understanding of parent /infant attachment and the way in which emotional distress, stress, and social isolation can impact on parent-infant relationships

✓

10.

Excellent time management, and organisation with the ability to work autonomously to effectively plan and prioritise work, adapting to new models of working in a confident and professional manner.

✓

11.

Excellent written and IT skills and proficient in the use of Microsoft Office

✓

12.

Able to demonstrate knowledge of child and adult safeguarding issues and commitment to adhering to Family Action’s and Bradford Council’s Safeguarding policy and procedures.

✓

13.

Knowledge of health and safety issues and an ability to take responsibility for the health, and safety of adults and children

✓

14.

Emotional resilience to cope with sessions where information shared by clients could be of upsetting or distressing nature. Knowing when you need support and confidence to seek support when needed.

✓

15.

Ability to speak a second language (particularly community languages sought within the service – Urdu/Punjabi/Bengali/Polish/Czech/Slovak)

✓

15.

Ability to make good use of reflective supervision sessions and commitment to undertaking any training required to fulfil the needs of this role

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✓

Values

16.

Able to evidence Family Action’s values at all times, which underpin our mission of ‘building stronger families’ by:

· Being people focused

· Reflecting a ’can do’ approach

· Striving for excellence in everything we do

· Having mutual respect for everyone we work with, work for and support through our services

✓

17.

Be committed to equal opportunities and uphold and comply with Family Action’s Equality & Diversity policy in all aspects of your work, promoting its principles amongst colleagues, service users and other members of the community.

✓

In addition

18.

Willing to work hours in a flexible way, on occasion, including evenings and weekends as required to meet the needs of the service.

✓

19.

Access to a business insured vehicle to travel across the Bradford area.

✓

Job Types: Part-time, Temporary contract
Part-time hours: 29.6 per week

Salary: £20,579.00-£23,268.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Bradford, BD1 4QU: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• supporting vulnerable families: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 03/07/2023
Reference ID: 863