Parenting Support Coordinator

Job title: Parenting Support Coordinator

Salary: £31,900 per annum

Location: Bridgend

Contract/Hours: Fixed Term Contract for 10 months, Part-time - 26 hours per week

Benefits:

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays and options to buy or sell leave
• Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages
• Pension with up to 7% matched employer contribution with included life assurance cover
• Staff discounts and Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 national retailers discounts
• We are a Real Living Wage accredited employer

We are one of the largest children's charities in the UK and have been making a difference to the lives of the UK's vulnerable children for over 150 years.

About the role

Bridgend Families First supports families with children and young people as part of the Families First Programme. Our aim is to ensure families are confident, nurturing, resilient and safe by helping them to develop the skills to enable this.

As a Parenting Support Co-ordinator, you'll be leading a team of four Parenting Practitioners in the Bridgend Families First service, focusing on improving parenting skills and increasing parental understanding of their child's development, learning and needs.

How you'll help to create brighter futures

• By providing regular supervision and performance reviews to staff.
• By being the designated safeguarding lead for their team.
• By being responsible for the development of the team.
• Managing referrals, triage and allocations to Parenting Team.
• Budget managing, reporting to local authority.
• Providing safeguarding support to the Parenting Team.
• Coordinating Parenting Programmes with staff, volunteers and partner agencies.
• Supporting service users in accessing the service.
• Promoting social experiences amongst the wider community.
• Enabling Families to upskill themselves and encourage active participation.

Let's talk about you

• Strong leadership experience within a similar environment.
• Experience of developing and managing stakeholder relationships, both internal and external.
• Experience of working with vulnerable children and families.
• Good analytical and report writing skills for quarterly reporting.
• Experience of working with complex partnership arrangements.
• Considerable experience of frontline family support work with families.
• Ability to manage demanding workloads and change priorities quickly.

Good to know

We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role

If, for any reason, you need support with your application, please contact Scott Jones at quoting reference 11077 and we'll be happy to give you any support you require.

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.