Parenting Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To foster good working relationships within the clinical teams in order to actively problem solve issues as they arise.
2. To work with the Parenting Team Leader in the development of parenting groups within the localities ensuring the involvement of multi-agency colleagues.
3. To be take part in the awareness raising of parenting initiatives within Stockport Family and other professional colleagues.
4. To develop an effective communication system and close liaison with GPs and members of the wider team, Stockport Family and other professional colleagues in order to avoid duplication and ensure a co-ordinated seamless service to clients.

1. To refer to agencies as required ensuring that appropriate services are accessed.
2. To attend professional meetings as required by the Team Leader/Locality Leader in order to be fully informed of local priorities as well as emerging professional issues and wider Trust and Stockport Family priorities

3. To foster good working relationships across multi-agency teams in a variety of settings.

4. To communicate specific service related information to senior managers, staff and other agencies, ensuring clarity of approach where the information is complex. When necessary ensure a sensitive and confidential approach is maintained.

1. Provide parenting advice and consultation to other services and disciplines based on identified need without direct supervision. This will include statutory and non-statutory agencies across Stockport Family.

Responsibility for Patient Care

1. Offer direct therapeutic work to parents, providing specialist assessment and therapeutic interventions working with difficult and highly expressed emotions in the parents and respond effectively to safeguarding needs.
2. To provide 1:1 parenting support to families in Parent Support Clinics, using brief interventions such as The Solihull Approach.
3. To deliver Invest in Play and other agreed evidence based parenting programmes ensuring that individual pre- and post assessment are carried out and evaluation report written up.
4. To maintain accurate and contemporaneous paper and electronic records in accordance with Trust policy and follow data safety, confidentiality and information sharing policies

5. To work with multi-agency colleagues to deliver universal and targeted parenting support programmes.

1. To advise his/her manager and/or Specialist Safeguarding Nurse of suspected child abuse and adhere to the procedures defined in Stockport Safeguarding Children Guidelines prepared by the Stockport Local Safeguarding Children Board.
2. To participate in clinical supervision, in order to reflect on practice thereby ultimately improving the service offered to clients.

8. To participate in specific supervision for the parenting team which involves the use of video recordings.

1. To assist the Parenting Team Leader in planning groups and development activities; find suitable venues and assist in organising recruitment to courses
2. To assist the Parenting Team Leader in planning groups and development activities; find suitable venues and assist in organising recruitment to courses

1. Lead any developmental work appropriate to band in negotiation with Parenting Team Leader

4. Plan and organise own work schedule, attend staff meetings, allocate work as needed and problem solve

5. To take responsibility for own professional development

1. Contribute to the delivery of specific training and development programmes as part of Stockport Family Workforce development plan.
2. Be responsible for remaining up to date with new developments in parenting interventions and participate in dissemination within the Parenting Team and wider Stockport Family workforce

1. Work with Parenting Team Leader to ensure data is collected to report on outcomes from interventions for Key Performance Indicators.
2. Ensure data and client records are recorded in a timely manner as required
3. Keep up to date with information from national and local sources to ensure updated with evidence based practice.
4. Review data sources and requirements with Parenting Team Leader and keep these updated to meet demands of service and commissioners

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trusts policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

• If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salaryIn addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.

Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Specialist Public Health Nurse Practitioner Health Visiting or School Nursing

Desirable

• Accredited in an evidence based parenting programme
• Evidence of group facilitation skills

Knowledge

Essential

• Sound knowledge of professional developments in parenting, child development and child mental health

Desirable

• Knowledge of evidence based parenting programmes

Skills

Essential

• Parenting group facilitation skills
• Assessment and analysis of risk and resilience in families
• Understanding and skills in the principles and practice of adult learning and its application to practice
• Good negotiating and interpersonal skills
• Evaluation skills
• oActive listening skills and ability to reflect on practice

Work related

Essential

• Car driver

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Central House

Grand Central

Stockport

SK13TA

Employer's website

http://www.stockport.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)