Job Description

Job details:

Salary: Band 8: \xc2\xa332,020 to \xc2\xa334,722
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Fixed term for 2 Years
Closing date: 20th July 2023

Portsmouth City Council

Portsmouth is a vibrant university city, with a rich maritime history on the South coast enjoying excellent transport links to the rest of the country.

Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. It is also committed to promoting quality childcare across the city that works to improve outcomes for children.

DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Children\'s Board safer recruitment procedures.

The Role:

Reporting to the Early Help and Prevention Service Lead, you will support us to introduce and embed our parenting pathway. This will include the delivery of a new anti and post-natal parenting programme (including Solihull Programme delivery), the introduction of PeeP to support early communication, language, and literacy development. It will also ensure that our parenting pathway (based on the Thrive model) is embedded across the wider system, including in education, social care and the voluntary and community sector.

The role will include:

• Coordinating and monitoring the provision for Parenting support across the Early Help Network
• Communicating with Children and Family Services, Health, and wider partners.
• Quality assurance and evaluation of the parenting provision.
• Being seen as an expert/specialist and will be required to collaborate with others at various levels (including senior management) at both internal and external clients / agency.
• The ability to analyse and interpret information, pre-empt and evaluate issues and recommend an appropriate course of action to address the issues.
• Problem solving and responding to sudden unexpected demands.
• Reporting to a line manager at a service lead level but are expected to exercise own judgement as an expert in the field.
• Monitoring and reviewing attendance within programmes running as part of the Family Hub offer.

Please read the job profile for the full details of this role

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Educated to a NVQ level 6 in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area of Parenting.
• You will have problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• You will have an attention to detail combined with the ability to extract key messages from complex analysis.

• Specialist knowledge in relation to parenting and evidenced based parenting programs.
• Experience and understanding or evaluating and measuring the performance of family interventions.
• A good understanding of the health and social care environment and roles and responsibilities within it.
• Experience of working in an administrative role within a busy office environment and ideally, experience of working in Children\'s and/or Young People\'s Services.

What you\'ll get in return

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave .
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.

Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council/

Additional Information:
The full job profile is attached here

Contact Details for an Informal Discussion:
Telephone /email Katy.wilcox@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

Application process:

We are a disability confident employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible and welcome applications from all areas of society.
How to complete your application, https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/how-to-apply/

Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the \'Who is the Person\' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.

Applicants will be shortlisted based on their ability to use good examples that meet the criteria of this role.

Please ensure you provide your full education history from secondary school, include name/address of establishment, details of relevant qualifications & awarding body.
Please explain any gaps - this is essential for all safeguarding children\'s roles.

You may wish to attach an additional letter or document to supplement you application.

We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Please ensure to complete the application in its entirety and add in comments to the Personal Statement section. We look forward to speaking with you soon. Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk

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