Yourfamily Connector - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom - Early Years Alliance

Early Years Alliance
Early Years Alliance
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Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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About The Role

re you ready for your next challenge? Are you good at meeting new families and sharing new ideas? Are you able to build trusting relationship with parents and families, and recognise their strengths? Can you help deliver a new initiative designed to develop relationships between families, the community and formal service provision in Southend?


The Early Years Alliance is the lead partner for _A Better Start Southend,_ a National Lottery funded initiative working with the local community to shape and redesign services during pregnancy and early childhood (0-3 years).

A Better Start Southend is seeking
YourFamily Connectors to join the ABSS family.

The position will require meeting new families in the community and introducing them to the YourFamily programme, signposting to appropriate services, and providing child development, health and wellbeing advice where appropriate.


  • The YourFamily programme aims to give children the best start in life by building trusting relationships with expectant parents and parents with young children, to develop their strengths and resilience, and connect them to community resources.
  • The Early Years Alliance is the largest early years membership organisation and voluntary sector provider of quality affordable childcare and education in England. An educational charity, the Alliance represents the interests of over 14,000 member settings who deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year.

Benefits:


  • 26 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays, pro rata for part time employees
  • Enhanced sickness pay
  • Employer and employee contribution pension scheme
  • Birthday leave so you can have a day off for your birthday dedicated to you and your well being
  • Enhanced sickness pay
and paid bereavement leave

  • Regular access to internal and external learning and development opportunities
  • A Recruitment Referral Payment Scheme, giving you an introductory payment of up to £300 if someone you have referred to the Alliance takes up a role in the charity.
  • Vitality membership wellness and fitness app including lots of great health benefits, rewards, telephone, and face to face counselling
  • Savings of up to 25% on O2 Refresh Airtime Plan on any new phone or tablets
  • A dedicated mental health First Aider to support your mental well being

Main duties:


  • To build a trusting relationship with the parents and families recognising their strengths and capabilities to help them identify their needs.
  • To work closely with parents and their families throughout the community, to enable parents to make connections with peers and their communities, signposting to appropriate services and provide child development, health and wellbeing advice where appropriate.
  • To enable parents to make connections with peers and their communities, signposting to appropriate services.

Essential criteria:


  • Level 2 qualification or equivalent or experienced in supporting families.
  • Willing to undertake training on: Assetbased approached, Trauma informed approaches, Adverse Childhood Experiences, Participation & Coproduction, Safeguarding and Parenting Programmes.
  • Experience of developing effective partnerships.
  • Commitment to achieving best outcomes for children and families and implementing evidence based effective practice.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Strong proven interpersonal skills and ability to prioritise and organise own workload.
  • Computer literacy and good typing skills
  • Willingness and ability to work outside of office hours when required, including evening and weekends.

Hours per week:


21.5

Weeks per year:

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52

Contract:

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Fixed Term for 12 months - with possible option to extend

Interview date:

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Friday 05 May 2023

  • About The Service
  • The Early Years Alliance is the largest early years membership organisation and voluntary sector provider of quality affordable childcare and education in England. An educational charity, the Alliance represents the interests of over 14,000 member settings who deliver care and learning to over 800,000 families every year.
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