Parent Lead Officer - Camden, United Kingdom - Reed Talent Solutions

Reed Talent Solutions
Reed Talent Solutions
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Camden, United Kingdom

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Parent Lead Officer
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs. Our Homelessness and Prevention team is friendly and we lovewhat we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.
We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for
- profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people's lives, each and every day.

Join our Homelessness and Prevention team as a Parent Lead Worker
Housing sits at the heart of our organisation. We believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. Providing care and support to those who need it is an important part of what we do. We work with people experiencing homelessness and who oftenhave other support needs.

Our services include hostels, young peoples' accommodation services and support delivered in the community; where we provide tailored support that prepares our customers to achieve independence and re-integrate within the community.

We're an organisation with strong values.

We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve.

These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

The role
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of
Parent Lead Worker

Salary:
£27,488 per annum


Location:
Camden


Hours:
Rolling Rota - Early & Late shifts (1 long weekend per month)

We are looking for a motivated, flexible and committed individual to work at our 8-bed, 24hour complex needs young parents' scheme in Camden.


Your responsibilities will include:

  • Supporting effective links between relevant agencies in Camden, including the Youth Offending Team, Children's Services, parenting skills programmes, Early Years, local health services and other relevant agencies and support the wider Early Help agenda.
  • Preparing clear and concise reports for meetings related to the welfare of the child is a must e.g. child protection meetings, child in need meetings, in house Review meetings, strategy meetings, legal planning meetings and care proceedings.
  • Delivering evidencebased parenting programmes, which includes organising and delivering group sessions and training staff within the service to run the programme themselves ensuring we have a model that is sustainable now and in the future. Onetooneinterventions will also be delivered by the Parenting lead officer, where appropriate
  • Representing the service at external local authority/provider panels and conferences
  • Supporting the management team with auditing of files and quarterly organisational quality support audits
  • Facilitating and encouraging effective customer participation, consultation and feedback within the service.
  • Promoting Social Inclusion

What you will need to succeed

We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly.


  • Experience of working with young parents and have extensive demonstrable experience of parenting work and undertaking parenting assessments, family support, child protection and some experience of care proceedings.
  • Experience of planning 11 work with hard to engage parents and undertaking observations as part of the assessment process.
  • The ability to deal with considerable levels of workrelated pressure, for example from deadlines, interruptions or conflicting demands.
  • You are educated to Level 3 or degree level or a professional qualification in a relevant field such as Health & Social Care, Social Work, Sociology or Family and Adolescent studies. Must also have an experience of programme delivery with either childrenor families
  • CreativityExperience and Knowledge of safeguarding legislation
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