Family Hub and Early Help Parenting Coordinator

Full Time, 37 hours per week, Permanent - East Central Bristol

Bristol Family Hubs are looking for an knowledgeable and experienced Parenting Co-ordinator to join our East Central Bristol team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone passionate about strengthening parenting support and making a positive difference to children and families.

As Parenting Co-ordinator, you will coordinate and oversee parenting provision across the locality, helping ensure families access the right support at the right time.

You will coordinate referrals and evidence-based parenting interventions and use local need, data, outcomes and feedback to inform planning and ensure our parenting offer is accessible, responsive and effective.

This is a outward-facing role. You will be visible across the locality, building strong relationships with Family Hubs, schools, community organisations and wider partners. You will promote the Parenting Pathway and evidence-based parenting programmes, strengthen referral pathways, increase engagement and build partners’ confidence in the support available.

As a knowledgeable point of expertise, you will provide advice, guidance and support to practitioners and partners, strengthening practice and confidence in delivering parenting programmes.

You will also support quality assurance, programme fidelity and practitioner development, helping ensure programmes are delivered safely, consistently and to a high standard.

You will champion parent participation, ensuring parents’ and carers’ experiences help shape and continually improve our parenting offer, and use data, outcomes and feedback to identify areas for development and support continuous service improvement.

We are looking for someone with proven experience of parenting support and a strong understanding of evidence-based parenting programmes, who can take initiative, coordinate provision, build effective partnerships and use their professional knowledge to support and develop others.

Although some group and one-to-one parenting interventions may be delivered where required, the main focus of the role is coordination, oversight, quality assurance, professional expertise, proactive promotion and partnership working, rather than direct case holding or predominantly desk-based work.

You’ll join a supportive Family Hubs team where partnership working, shared learning and achieving positive outcomes for children and families are at the heart of what we do.

If you have the knowledge, experience, energy and enthusiasm to get out into the community, build strong partnerships and help strengthen and promote parenting support across East Central Bristol, we’d love to hear from you.

Please note that this role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact lucy.watkins@bristol.gov.uk and laura.oakley@bristol.gov.uk

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

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