Job Introduction
Job title: Parent Inclusion Lead
Salary: £28,770 - £33,024
Location: Liverpool City Wide
A bit about us:
Liverpool is home to vibrant, energetic and engaged communities, people who take real ownership of their local area and are passionate about making our city a better place. We've got ambitious targets to meet by 2025 and we need people who are driven, dynamic and ready to deliver the very best for our communities. Public service is more important than ever, and this role represents a real opportunity to make a difference to our communities by transforming the way we work and placing our residents at the heart of everything we do.
Working at Liverpool City Council provides an opportunity to contribute to your community and make a positive impact on the lives of residents. Our values shape how we work to deliver public services, and how we communicate with the residents we serve. We care about the best outcomes for local people, through our public services.
We are proud of our world-famous thriving city with its rich culture, affordable housing, stunning waterfront and our beautiful green spaces – there’s really something for everyone!
We are seeking to recruit a Parenting Inclusion Lead within the Early Help Service. This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to make a real difference in the lives of parents and carers in Liverpool who find it hard to access parenting support
The Role:
- The Parent Inclusion Lead will consist of the delivery of evidence-based parenting programs and parenting interventions to parents and carers of adolescent children, who are not currently engaged in accessing support or who find it difficult to access parenting support. This includes parents and carers from BAME communities, fathers, parents in prison and parents with SEND needs. The role will include working together with Community Agencies, Children’s Centres and Family Hubs to engage, assess, monitor, and evaluate the needs of parents and carers who wish to access parenting programs or support, and to ensure they are signposted to relevant parenting interventions or programs, which will best meet their needs.
- As the Parent Inclusion Lead you will need to have a relevant qualification and experience of delivering evidence based parenting programs or facilitating groupwork with adults. You will have experience of working in an Early Help environment, with a variety of multi-disciplinary and community organisations
- Parent Inclusion Lead will have an ability to understand the barriers that parents may face, in trying to access parenting support services
This is a temporary post for 12 months from start date and is required to enhance Liverpool’s parenting support offer.
Our offer to you:
- At least 27 days holiday rising to 32 after 5 years service.- option to purchase further days
- Agile working - A “Flexibility First” approach to Agile working where flexibility is the norm rather than the exception.
- Part of the Local Government Pension scheme – option to join the AVC scheme-
- Progression - opportunities and training through a wide range of high quality learning
- Health and Wellbeing - offer including Employee assistance programme
- Cycle to Work and Travel Pass Schemes
- Drive Time – a salary sacrifice car lease scheme
- Family friendly policies with enhanced leave
- Discounted Gym Memberships
- Employee Volunteering Scheme
- Medicash
Next steps:
Closing Date for this role is: Friday 23rd August 2024.
If you would like to talk to a member of the team about the role or have an informal discussion, please contact Debbie McAndrew on 07894 785223.
Liverpool City Council is committed to fostering a workforce representative of the communities we serve. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we believe in appointing candidates based on their skills, experience, qualifications, and abilities. To support this commitment, we guarantee an interview to candidates from under-represented groups who meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
If you require any reasonable adjustments in line with the Equality Act 2010, such as an application form in a different format or additional time to complete your application, please contact us at recruitment@liverpool.gov.uk
Although we advertise on Jobs go public, and other websites, your application process will be directed to our Tribepad system. Please note that all communication regarding your application for this post will be sent to the email address that you have registered on Tribepad, including your invite to interview if you are shortlisted. Please check your emails regularly, including Spam/Junk, after the closing dates for notifications. Please ensure you complete your full profile, work and education history in Tribepad.
We reserve the right to close vacancies earlier than the specified date should we receive sufficient applications. If interested, please complete an application as early as possible.
Applicants must secure agreement for their release from their Line Manager before making any application for an Internal Secondment opportunity or before accepting an offer of appointment to a post on an internal secondment basis.
An employee may still apply for the opportunity without the express consent of his or her Line Manager and if successful in their application they will resign from his or her substantive post in order to take up the post on a fixed term contract basis. To be clear, in these circumstances an employee will be resigning from his/her substantive post in order to take up a fixed term offer and their contract of employment will be altered to this effect or the employee may decline the offer of the fixed term post.
