Parenting Worker

This is a great opportunity to join our Parenting Team based in the Penwith Early Help Team, delivering both face to face and online Parenting support programmes. Our parenting workers work closely with multi agency partners to support the delivery of our offer to families, they support parents and carers to access and engage with the support available. You will need to have great communication skills, demonstrate a robust understanding of child development and the challenges that can be faced by families. Part of the Early Help offer our Parenting support delivers high quality evidence based programmes across all ages and stages of childhood. "Early help arrangements are impressive. Support provided by local authority staff is well co-ordinated, with the services available from a broad range of partner agencies to meet the needs of children through a whole-family approach. The interface between early help and statutory work is managed well and children and families lives improve tangibly as a result of early help intervention. Most children's needs are addressed at the earliest stage, helping to ensure that needs and risks do not escalate to the point that children need a statutory intervention." Ofsted, July 2024 The Role: You will work closely with the Early help team, colleagues from Social Care Teams and partners to ensure families have access to and are supported to access our high quality parenting offer. The role is full time and based in Penwith but you will work with colleagues across the West (Penwith and Kerrier)., Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance. Whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies. This position will be subject to a enhanced criminal record disclosure. What you'll need to succeed: You will need a Level 3 qualification or above in child development or equivalent, be able to demonstrate in submission and interview a robust understanding of child development and the challenges faced by families. Great communication skills are essential as the role involves delivering our evidence based programmes both face to face and online.

Working in social care is a career where you can make a huge difference. Whether you want to work with adults or children there are a variety of jobs available. We believe that the people of Cornwall deserve the best. We put their needs at the heart of everything we do and that means we need you to share our determination to make a difference to their lives and make a brighter future. Social workers in Cornwall play a leading role in delivering services that safeguard the welfare of the most vulnerable members of our communities. Our Social workers are developing positive partnerships with colleagues from a wide range of different professions and agencies across the county. Our 'Social Work Career and Qualification' pathway has been created to support you to develop and maintain your professional practice and progress your career in Cornwall. If you can demonstrate a clear commitment to building stronger and more resilient communities, empowering people to make informed choices about how their support needs are met, we would like to encourage you to apply for one of our vacancies.

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.