Parenting Practitioner at Action for Children
Action for Children · Droitwich, United Kingdom · Onsite
- Office in Droitwich
Role: Parenting Practitioner
Salary Up to £25,500 per annum
Contract/Hours: Permanent Full Time – 37 hours a week. Monday to Friday (some weekends and out of hours)
Location: Droitwich, Worcestershire.
Benefits:
- Generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days PLUS bank holidays
- Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service plus the option to buy and sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- A pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate. Plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover.
- Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
- Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK. Last year, we helped more than 671,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting.
About The Role.
Action for Children deliver parenting and community services as part of South Worcestershire Family Hubs. Our services are based across 5 Family Hubs across South Worcestershire where we provide support to parents and carers of children and young people.
The Parenting Practitioner will work with families with children and young people aged 0-19 with a focus on 0-5.
What you will do:
Deliver evidenced-based parenting groups and workshops to parents/carers from a range of settings including family hubs, schools, community venues, virtually.
Provide a high-quality service to children, young people, and their families, based on an assessment of need and is outcomes driven.
Support parents and carers on a one-to-one basis. This will include supporting families in their homes.
Liaise with venues to arrange delivery. Take responsibility for promotion, recruitment and retention to groups.
Provide lead case/care planning management, including undertaking assessing, reviewing, and managing risks.
Take part/lead in key multi-agency meetings and lead discussions that encourage thoughtful reflection and analysis of practice
Be responsible for day-to-day resource planning to ensure high quality services are delivered.
Establish and develop effective relationships and channels of communication with children, young people, families, colleagues, community organisations, partner agencies and other external agencies.
Retain accurate and up to date, court ready records, using various IT systems to capture information and to produce written reports and present these as necessary.
Review and evaluate service provision with others, ensuring continued improvements are made reflective of families need.
Supervise, guide and direct staff and volunteers where necessary.
Ensure a safe and positive work and service environment is achieved through compliance with all safeguarding, safer recruitment, health and safety policy and procedure.
Let's talk about you:
- NVQ3 in Early Years or Social Care linked with health and wellbeing, or relevant professional qualification or experience.
- Effective team working skills, strong communication and IT skills.
- Experience of work with children, young people, or families.
- Ability to manage demanding workloads and change priorities quickly.
- Experience of facilitating groups and delivering an evidence-based programs.
- Experience of working with vulnerable parents is desirable.
- Have access to a vehicle and willing to use for business purposes.
- Ability to work with both children and families.
- You are sensitive and accepting of different styles of families and taking an inclusive approached based on how the individuals define their family unit.
- Willingness to undertake further training where required.
Basic knowledge of child development.
Talent Pool.
We know talent when we see it. But sometimes we find the right person but not for the right job. We'd love to keep your details for when the right job comes up. Let us know if you'd rather we didn't.
Contact: Sarah Manderfield via email at [email protected] quoting reference 12069
Diversity, equality, and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic, and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Male staff are under-represented within our Children Service roles. We would like to encourage more male applicants for our Children Service roles.
Don't meet every single requirement?
Studies show that women and Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic people are less likely to apply for a job unless they meet every qualification. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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See below for further information about working with us:
Action for Children Employee Benefits
Action for Children - Driven by Love
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