Family Support Coordinator

Pure Insight are looking to recruit a Family Support Coordinator.

Role

Family Support Coordinator

Location

Stockport

Salary

£25,000 £27,500 (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Hours

25 to 28 hours (negotiable)

Annual Leave

24 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 26 days after 2 years and then up to 27 after 5 years employment

Benefits

A friendly fun and supportive working environment.

Great flexible working options.

Extensive learning and professional development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Generous annual leave entitlement of 24 days plus bank holidays. Increasing to a max of 27 days after 5 years.

Chace to earn extra days annual leave based on performance.

We are currently in the process of reviewing our employee pension and seeking to introduce healthcare and insurance benefits for 2024.

Pure Insight support young people leaving childrens homes and foster care (care leavers) between the age of 16 28. We provide a wraparound offer supporting young people to take control of their lives, feel connected and develop a sense of belonging in their community. Over the past 10 years we have grown across Greater Manchester delivering services in Stockport, Salford, Cheshire East, and Warrington, in the upcoming year we have plans to extend our services to other local authorities in the surrounding areas. We are really proud to have developed nationally recognised best practice programmes for young care leavers.

To support our continued growth, we have an exciting opportunity for Family Support Coordinator to join our Pure Insight Team.

Young Care leavers are some of the most vulnerable young people in our society; many leave school with few qualifications and a significant number are unemployed, living in inadequate housing, and experience poor health and levels of poverty.Nationally 25% of female care leavers become parents between 16 -18 years of age and 50% by the age of 24.

Adjusting to parenthood must happen simultaneously whilst they are still in the process of transitioning out of care or adapting to independent living. Coping with the stressful demands of learning to take care of themselves and a baby at such a young age, whilst often still struggling to make sense of unstable, often chaotic childhoods, can leave little space for engaging with services in the wider community.Instead, many care leavers struggle with poor self-esteem. Isolated and lonely, they may lack the confidence, social skills and social network to join new parenting groups in their community.

Additionally, time spent in the care system can make care leavers reluctant to ask for and accept support.Becoming a parent can be the most rewarding experience in the world, but all parents need support networks to thrive as a family.

The post of Parent Coordinator is an established role. The role is to take full responsibility for certain aspects of the projects work, as detailed below. All duties are to be carried out in line with current operating policies and procedures and any procedures of the partnership agency. In the first instance the post holder reports to the area manager

Main Duties of the post

To develop trusting relationships with young parents (who are also young care leavers).

Work alongside families to identify bespoke support plans that meet their needs and wishes,

Review the progress and development of plans at the end of the agreed timeframe, record the outcome and identify further support needs where required.

Include the Family Support Practitioner and volunteers in plans where appropriate, ensuring roles and expectations for all are clear and communication lines are established

Support the team with volunteer recruitment, training, selection and matching via the existing mentoring programme, identifying volunteers passionate about supporting young families.

Deliver volunteer supervision, evaluation and support, including some out of hours activity.

To liaise with referral agencies and partners, build and maintain positive relationships to ensure the best possible outcomes for young families.

Work in partnership with professionals in social care around the needs of parents on various plans including early interventions and child protection

Provide advocacy in formal meetings such as child protection, team around the child and support parents to engage with statutory services in their lives.

Support parents to access other support in the community.

Deliver Pure Insight parent support groups via face to face and online, also explore peer support options locally give and receive approach.

To ensure that all live documents, monitoring data and case notes are completed and recorded electronically.

To interpret monitoring data and produce and present evaluation reports, share good practice – the voice of children and parents is central to this.

To provide information and advice to other project staff on specific areas of project activity that the post holder has responsibility for.

To cover any appropriate aspect of other team members roles in their absence.

To contribute to the development and promotion of Pure Insight.

To be self-administrating.

To contribute to meeting project or departmental targets and objectives.

To take part in regular supervision with line manager.

To participate in the general development of the organisation through meetings, training and attendance of other events.

To carry out any other duties within the scope of the post.

Person Specification

Essential

Resilience and ability to lone work.

Self-motivating and self-administrating.

Experience of coordinating a project.

Experience of managing volunteers or a team.

Experience of multiagency working around safeguarding children, complex safeguarding.

Experience and confidence in leading on safeguarding procedures for children and adults.

Excellent understanding of child development/positive parenting strategies (experience and knowledge).

Excellent understanding of the issues faced by young people in care and care leavers/care leaver parents (experience and knowledge).

Minimum of 2 years experience working with vulnerable parents and children.

Ability and experience in designing and delivering training.

Car driver and has the use of car for work.

Ability to form trusting relationships with young people.

Passionate and committed to improving the lives of young parents (care leavers) and their children.

Open minded, non-judgemental and non-assuming.

Ability to be solutions focussed and has a can do positive attitude.

Excellent listening, communication and organisational skills.

Ability to write and present reports.

Ability to use Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and social media and manage social media groups.

Good team player, willing to cover and support team.

Flexible and adaptable to changes in service requirements.

Prepared to work evenings and weekends when required (infrequently and planned in advance).

Desirable

Experience of working with young people in care or care leavers.

Experience of mentoring.

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