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PARENT SUPPORT COACH ? F/T
ONE FAMILY PARENTING SERVICE
The One Family Parenting Service provides a range of supports to
parents who are parenting alone, sharing parenting and separating. The
service aims to support parents to find the best way for them to
parent their children after separation or to resource parents to
parent alone.
The Parenting Service offers group-based as well as individual
supports to parents, many of whom are difficult to engage. The One
Family Parenting Service provides the following:
* Group-based Parenting courses
* Individual Parent Mentoring
* Mediation
* Professional Development Training for those working in the area
PARENT SUPPORT COACH ROLE
The Parent Support Coach role is designed to provide dedicated support
to parents experiencing emotional and practical difficulties which
impact on their quality of life and stability within their families.
This post will provide the right applicant with the opportunity to
work as part of a team, providing individual support to parents as
well as group-based support. The project aims to support people
parenting alone or sharing parenting through our parenting courses:
_Positive Parenting for Changing Families; Family Communications,
Coping with Teens and Family Life; Family Communications Parenting
When Separated_; and _Parenting Under Stress_. One to one support will
range from parent mentoring to key-working parents who find it
difficult to connect with support services.
The role will in particular focus on working with parents who are
difficult to engage, whose children may be on the edge of the care
system due to the ongoing conflict within the family due to the
difficulties encountered by sharing parenting. This role will focus on
parents who are considered those most hard to engage in order to help
them when they are experiencing the challenges of transitioning
through the stages of family life that parenting alone or separation
may bring.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
_Client Work_
* To contribute to the provision of a professional and comprehensive
Parenting Service for One Family clients
* To engage hard-to-reach families, whose children may be on the
edge of the care system and support them to access the range of
supports available to them in One Family
* To deliver individual Parent Mentoring and key-working sessions,
within the agreed ethos of the One Family Parenting Service
* To deliver group-based Parenting Courses both within One Family
and in outreach locations
* To support the client One Family events
* To deal with client queries in relation to the Parenting Service
and make appropriate referrals
* To contribute to the parenting sections of the One Family social
media platforms
* To maintain the high professional and ethical standard in
provision of care to clients established by the One Family Parenting
Service.
_Administration :_
* Keep client notes and log sheets up to date
* Complete the necessary administration associated with the role
* Ensure all the monitoring and evaluation requirements of the
service are met and funder?s requirements are reported upon
* Contribute to evaluations, policy, reports, funding applications
etc as required
_Other_
* Follow all One Family?s policies and procedures
* To liaise with the line manager and take direction where
appropriate
* Attend monthly internal supervision
* Attend training internally and externally as required
* Supervise and support student placements
* Support volunteer parent mentors
* To undertake any other duties as required.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
* Minimum of 5 years experience working directly with parents through
individual and group-based supports within an organisation
* Hold a qualification in Early Years, Social Care, Community
Development or related discipline
* Ideally hold a qualification in Counselling, Relationship
Mentoring or Parent Mentoring, or related field
* Be an accredited Parent Facilitator
* Be an accredited member of relevant Professional bodies
* Have a client-focused perspective
* Be enthusiastic and motivated
* Be well organised with good attention to detail
* Have knowledge of the issues facing one parent families and those
sharing parenting or separating.
* Be confident in Children First and Meitheal
* Have a very good knowledge of domestic abuse, family law, child to
adult violence and suicide ideation
* The person carrying out this role will a good communicator and
experienced in interagency work as well as working as part of large
team
* They will be self-motivated and a good team player.
TERMS OF ROLE:
This is a full time post of **Apply on the website** hours per week
with an annual salary ranging from of ?**Apply on the
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Flexibility regarding hours of work is essential in order to meet the
needs of our clients. This post is subject to a 6month probationary
period and is based in One Family?s new offices in Smithfield,
Dublin 7 although working from outreach locations will be required. A
panel may be formed as a result of this recruitment process, from
which current and future vacancies may be filled. One Family offers
good terms and conditions to employees.
APPLICATION PROCESS:
A cover letter and CV addressing the role and the required
competencies as outlined
in the attached job description should be emailed to Geraldine Kelly,
Director of Children & Parenting Services at: **Apply on the website**
APPLICATIONS SHOULD BE MARKED CLEARLY: PARENT SUPPORT COACH
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS IS **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**TH JANUARY AT
5PM **APPLY ON THE WEBSITE**.
It is anticipated that first round interviews will be held shortly
afterwards with second round interviews taking place within a close
timeframe.
_ONE FAMILY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER_
We need : English (Good)
Type: Permanent
Payment:
Category: Others
