Parenting Support Worker

We are looking for a enthusiastic individuals to join out team to help us expand our service. This is an exciting role, working as part of the Parenting Service team in Sutton's Family Hubs. The successful candidate will facilitate specific parenting programmes in our family hubs and community settings, including schools. You will work with volunteers and professionals to ensure families receive support at the earliest possible time by signposting and connecting to local services. You will need to work flexibly which may include some weekends and evenings.

Have good communication skills and ability to build positive relationships with a range of people, including families and professionals.
Be skilled at facilitating parenting programmes
Be licensed to facilitate EPEC programmes and Care for the Family and have experience of doing so.
Have good IT skills
Have a good understanding of safeguarding
Be able to work well as part of a multi agency team

We work with parents to attend our universal parenting programmes. We aim for most of our programmes to be facilitated by parents for parents. We have an extensive training programme for parents and have a strong team of parent volunteers who support the delivery of programmes and regular support groups. We aim to build resilience in families and the wider community.

As one of our parents put it - "I'm meeting amazing people and hear about different experiences. It's great to be able to give something back to other parents in my community. I feel that I've come a long way from where I started 15 months ago. I never thought that I would be leading and volunteering at a parent coffee session"

The Parenting team is part of the wider Family Hub in the borough and works closely with a range of services to co-ordinate and join support up for parents and children.

Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.

In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps. Our Flexible Working - Smarter Working Scheme embraces new ways of working. It provides improved work life balance for our staff as it allows staff to work from a variety of locations and staff are not required to work within the office 5 days a week.

Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:

Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
Flexi-time (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
Three volunteering days per year in Sutton
Comprehensive learning and development programme
Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
Interest free season ticket loans
Local Government Pension Scheme
Car parking scheme
Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
Zip car scheme
Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
Subsidised gym membership
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