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The Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) Co-ordinator will act as a primary contact for the RPC programme, raising awareness and understanding of the RPC programme throughout Staffordshire by linking in with partners, delivering training and evaluating the effectiveness of current services and interventions.

This role will be required to work with a wide variety of stakeholders and partners in supporting the Children and Families System

• Ensure our local training offer is delivered across the breadth of our community to raise awareness of parental conflict and the support that is available to families.

• Work collaboratively to establish a digital offer via our digital information platform, which will contain information and advice around RPC for parents, practitioners, and partners.

• Embed the use of the Staffordshire Reducing Parental Conflict Toolkit across the partnership workforce to increase knowledge, understanding and skills to enable staff to support families experiencing parental conflict.

• Support a coordinated approach to Reducing Parental Conflict through Earliest Help, Early Help, Child in Need and Child Protection by promoting its adoption in accordance to current legislation, good practice, and local initiatives.

• To develop an Effective Practice Resource Bank for Reducing Parental Conflict, ensuring this is accessible for colleagues across the statutory, community and voluntary sector. This includes facilitating access to internal, local, regional, and national research, policy and quality assurance information relating to Reducing Parental Conflict.

• Explore the needs of our families and develop our approach to securing specialist interventions for those families who require further support.

• Work with members of local community / volunteers to champion Reducing Parental Conflict and to identify best practice to working with communities.

• Continue to develop the programme of collaborative working with Stoke City Council and Staffordshire Police and explore opportunities to work with other shared partners.

• To collaboratively work with colleagues to develop a sustainable approach to Reducing Parental Conflict.

• Undertake timely audits to develop an understanding of how confident families are in their ability to resolve conflict in a more positive way after working with our support teams.

• Regularly evaluate, review, develop and future-proof the localised training programme and toolkit to ensure that is remains relevant for both our workforce and our families.

• Ensure any relevant national research findings are considered and help shape our approach and offer in Staffordshire.

• Ensure all reporting requirements are made to the Department of Work and Pensions in a timely manner.

• Establish and chair a working group of key partners and stakeholders to continue to develop and progress the programme of work across the partnership.

• Contribute to the development of partnership plans, ensuring that RPC is considered and included where appropriate.

• Ensure that reporting of relevant data is established and shared appropriately to enable an understanding of the needs of parents, the demand for support around parental conflict and what outcomes have been achieved.

We are looking for some that is ambitious, not afraid to challange and has the ability to grow the Reducing Parental Conflict programme across Staffordshire.

For enquiries Please do contact Emma Davis 01785 278710 Family Hub Manager, or Alice Walters 01785 278150

Interviews will be held 23rd August 2023

We are no ordinary county council:

Our Values:

The core of who we are as an organisation. Just like we all have personal values that shape our thoughts and behaviour, organisational values drive how we think and act collectively.

Our values were created and shaped by colleague feedback and national best practice and they sit at the heart of People Strategy:

We have a real sense of community spirit that brings our people together. This feeling of belonging means we are all connected to what we do and take pride in the difference we make every day for Staffordshire people. We are ambitious and our sights are set firmly on a better future.

We look forward and race ahead - that goes for your career too.

Our benefits:

We recognise that it is our employees that are central to everything we do. We aim to create a supportive working environment where employees can achieve their full potential and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

In addition to your salary, as a member of staff, you will have access to a range of benefits.

Our recruitment process:

As an Authority we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Staffordshire County Council is an equal opportunities organisation and Disability Confident employer. We encourage applications from all background and communities

As part of our commitment as a Disability Confident employer, a Silver Award Armed Forces employer and our commitment to supporting care leavers - we offer a guaranteed interview as long as your application meets the minimum criteria for the post.