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Are you passionate about supporting Walsall parents and carers to enable their babies and children to live healthy lives right from the start?

An exciting new opportunity has arisen within Walsall as Walsall Council have entered into an exciting new partnership with HENRY to deliver meaningful support for Walsall parents and carers from pre-birth to 12 years old through group programmes and workshops. This role is vital to ensure the success of the programme and embed activity within Walsall.

HENRY is a renowned organisation with a successful and evidence-based approach working alongside parents to build their knowledge and confidence to ensure the best start in life for their babies, young children and their families. Programmes include issues such healthy weight, sleep, oral health, introduction to solid foods, activity and nutrition.

Working alongside colleagues you will lead the implementation of all aspects of this partnership from generating referrals/self-referrals, to logistical planning, to delivery, facilitation and evaluation of group programmes and workshops for parents and carers of young children

As part of the role, you will also be expected to deliver programmes and workshops to parents. In addition, you will also be responsible for the coordination, training, evaluation and support for Walsall's local HENRY facilitators. To successfully coordinate HENRY across Walsall, you will need tact and sensitivity to build collaborative relationships with internal and external colleagues and community partners. You will need an empathic and caring approach which supports families to give their children the best start in life.

This role requires an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references as part of our commitment to safer recruitment.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of what we value as an organisation.

This post is covered by the Government's Code of Practice on the English Language Fluency Duty for public sector workers. The post holder will be required to communicate verbally with customers and provide advice and/or information in accurate spoken English.

Here at Walsall, we want to attract the best talent. That's why - as well as a satisfying and rewarding job - we offer a range of attractive benefits. Working arrangements in most jobs are flexible (you may work flexitime, full or part time and job sharing is usually available) and you can expect generous holiday entitlements, a first class pension scheme and plenty of opportunities for training and personal development., Part of the Black Country, famous for its enterprising and industrial past, Walsall is reinventing itself to become a progressive modern community. The borough is centred around the major town of Walsall, but also includes five smaller and distinctive district centres (Bloxwich, Aldridge, Willenhall, Darlaston and Brownhills), together with numerous villages.

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Walsall Council is committed to Safer Recruitment.

To achieve our commitment, we will ensure continuous development and improvement of robust recruitment processes and procedures that promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

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