About this role
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to lead the CAMHS parent support team. We deliver targeted health focused parent support groups for parents who may have children ADHD, Anxiety or SEND needs. We offer a safe and trusted space where parents/carers of children with complex needs can connect.
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to undertake training to become one of our parent group facilitators.
Main duties of the job
- Assign Parent Programme Group Facilitators to deliver Parent training programmes on a termly basis. This will include providing appropriate consultation to all Programme Group Facilitators.
- Undertake regular CPD learning activities.
- Manage and overview the range of administration tasks involved with delivering Parenting Groups, referral management and group preparation tasks
- Be responsible for ensuring that statutory and Trust responsibilities are met regarding escalating safeguarding and clinical risk concerns where required
- Lead on the routine provision of high quality information management and performance data specific to the Parent Programme Team.
- Work flexibly to provide parent training programmes within a variety of community settings to meet service/referral need (i.e Children Centres, community venues).
- Ensure that safeguarding and other risks associated with delivering parenting interventions are routinely assessed and robust safeguarding/risk management plans are identified and reviewed in collaboration with the Trust policies and procedures as well as CYPS specific processes/pathways.
- Lead in the daily management of referrals to Parent Support Team.
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
- 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
- 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
- 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work under the operational supervision of the Operational Lead to provide evidence based parent support programmes within Gloucestershire.
- To manage the bank facilitators who deliver parent support Programmes
- Assign unqualified Parent Support Group Facilitators to deliver parent training programmes on a termly basis. This will include providing appropriate consultation to all Parent Support Group Facilitators.
- Lead on a range of administration tasks involved with delivering Parent Groups, referral management and group preparation tasks.
- To manage the administration team, delivering supervision in line with Trust polices
- Be responsible for ensuring that statutory and Trust responsibilities are met regarding escalating safeguarding and clinical risk concerns where required
- To deliver Parent Programmes on a termly basis.
- To support the Operational lead in managing the budget
- To lead on analysing the performance data
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Person Specification
Education
Essential
- 5 GCSE's or equivalent
Desirable
- Accredited Parent Training course
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with parents and children
- Experience of managing people
Desirable
- Experience of delivering a parent support programme
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kaleidoscope Children and Family Centre
Sherborne Street, Kingsholm,
Gloucester
GL1 3DN
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)