About the role
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver the best possible opportunities for the children in Northamptonshire. Our responsibility is to deliver children’s social care and targeted early help services on behalf of North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire Councils.
The Children and Family Support Service works with families to improve outcomes for children ensuring all children are safe, achieve their best in education, are ready for work and have skills for life, grow up healthy and have improved life chances.
We are seeking a dynamic Parenting Support Coordinator to focus on reducing the impact of parental conflict on children’s outcomes, by delivering training to partners to support their understanding and to assist with the development of pathways of support for parents. Experience of delivering training is desirable as full training in reducing parental conflict will be provided.
This is a Fixed Term contract to 31.3.2025
For an informal discussion please call Partnership Support Team Manager Maxine Reilly 07867 441853 or Partnership Coordinator Paulette Gibbons 07825 356445
About you
You are a skilled communicator with the ability to build purposeful working relationships with internal and external partners to ensure that our children get the right help from the right service at the right time.
You have proven experience of working with parents and families with multiple needs, and supporting them to access help.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Children’s Trust with a comprehensive package of support and training for the successful candidates, so if you think you have the right skills and experience and are interesting in joining our Partnership Support Service, we would love to hear from you.
You have a Level 4 qualification relevant to work with children, young people and families
Our benefits
We are committed to continuous improvement, building a skilled, knowledgeable, and flexible workforce alongside promoting innovation and creativity whilst keeping children, young people and families at the heart of all we do.
We really value our workforce and offer you a great benefits package including:
- 2 Day Induction Programme
- 2 days Signs of Safety training (social care colleagues)
- Extensive Learning & Development and career development opportunities
- Flexible and family working arrangements including enhanced maternity benefits
- A permanent, supportive and inclusive management team where you will be empowered to make good professional decisions
- Local government Pension Scheme
- Heavily subsidised town centre car parking scheme
- Employee Discount Scheme
- 27 days’ annual leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time) and an additional 5 days – dependent upon Grade after 5 years’ service
- Opportunity to purchase up to 25 days
- Employee Discount Schemes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Monthly quality supervision
- SWE Registration paid yearly (social care colleagues)
About us
Northamptonshire Children’s Trust was established in November 2020 to deliver Children’s Services to the newly established North and West Northants County Councils. The Trust is wholly owned and funded but operationally independent from the Councils; this provides the organisation with unique opportunities to explore new ways of working and to be more agile and adaptable in its approach to service delivery. We are developing a culture that allows the very highest quality of professional practice to flourish and evolve, delivering at the cutting edge of new innovation.
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