Job summary
An exciting development opportunity has arisen for a fixed term or secondment position as a Band 7 within the Families and Children's Care Group. The start date being as soon as possible, with the end date being 31st March 2024 due to Welsh Government funding.
The post is funded via Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) Early Years Transformation Programme. The Transformation Programme looks to improve early years' services through collaboration of partners from health, local authority and 3rd sector services, to deliver preventative services for families with children aged 0-7 years. The Transformation Programme works to ensure that children and families from across the CTM region benefit from a regional approach to the design, commissioning, implementation and evaluation of services that impact on their lives.
We are looking for a well-motivated, enthusiastic individual to join our team as a Parent-Infant Relationship Project Manager with a background in multi-agency projects hosted within the Merthyr-Cynon Health Visiting service and based flexibly between home and at Keir Hardy Health Park, Aberdare Road, Merthyr Tydfil, CF48 1BZ
The successful applicant will deliver parts of the regional CTM Early Years Transformation business plan, leading the development of a regional integrated approach for parent-infant relationship services, regional pathway planning, cross-sector training and education plans and reporting to regional partners and Welsh Government.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will need to use their expertise and knowledge to;
- motivate and support senior stakeholder buy-in to developing a regional parent-infant relationship service;
- improve multi-agency planning and co-ordination of parent-infant relationship services, education and training;
- support the planning and delivery of workforce development across early years' provision in CTM;
- increase service capacity and capability to deliver parent-infant relationship.
This is a key role in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) Early Years Transformation Programme as we continue to deliver its strategic objectives.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 18 months to meet the needs of the service.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 13,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The Project Manager will:
- Co-ordinate the multi-agency steering group meetings, preparing presentations of potentially sensitive or contentious information and working with the Chair to ensure collaboration and joined up communication between its members.
- Ensure good join up with other relevant local initiatives and represent the parent-infant relationship regional work in various meetings.
- Consult stakeholders about the development of a specialised parent-infant relationship service, identifying potential barriers and enablers. This needs to be specific and include articulating the resource and capital needs of such a service, identifying potential delivery venues and detailing the wider implications and impacts for connected services and policies.
- Collate and/or develop assets to support the development of a specialised parent-infant relationship team (e.g. service specification, job descriptions) through leading the collaborative multi-agency development of the regional service model.
- Work with multi-agency partners to lead the development a region-wide parent-infant relationship pathway inclusive of appropriate service specification, policies and SOPs as required. This will involve collecting information, engaging stakeholders and facilitating discussion to create a mutually acceptable pathway.
- Work with service managers to audit workforce strengths and needs, to inform development of a strategic workforce development plan. Identify those practitioners with Level 3 (AiMHUK) competencies who can contribute towards new capacity-building activities across the region.
- Contribute to the planning and co-ordination of workforce development in health, social care, education and the voluntary sector including supporting the development and delivery of relevant information, education and training opportunities for the broad range of stakeholders engaged in parent-infant relationship service delivery.
- Create and manage a detailed plan of work to progress the multi-agency steering groups ambitions. This might include work to ensure IT systems can better record and report parent-infant relationship help and support (for example, being able to link parent and infant records).
- Ensure the voice of the voluntary sector is included in the project plan and development work.
- Ensure the voice of local parents are included in the project plan and development work.
- Provide the steering group with evidence briefs (e.g. THRIVE and NEST based frameworks) and options appraisals based on analysis and interpretation of relevant performance data, national and best practice service models, and relevant capacity and demand data to enable evidence-based decision making.
- Act as the first point of contact for any queries about the Parent-Infant Relationships (PIR) developments, so will need a detailed understanding of the vision, governance and day to day progress across the project work.
- Engage effectively with stakeholders to better understand their requirements and support needs to develop appropriate solutions/improvements based on complex analysis of data and situational information and development of a range of options for consideration.
- Support service leads and managers to develop their own project plans to deliver improvements in parent-infant relationship help and support, including in assessment practices and in their written information to families. This includes helping them plan, collect and analyse data about the impact of any changes.
- Collect, analyse and report data to EYTB and Starting Well Strategy Group about how many children under 2 are being seen by various services (e.g. through self-audit and partners information management systems) to inform the commissioning of strengthened parent-infant relationship help and support.
- Update the service mapping grid at reasonable intervals so that the EYTB and Starting Well Strategy Group have oversight of the regional offer to children under 2 and their families.
- Negotiate with practitioners, managers and commissioners on issues that have significant impact on the quality and quantity of parent-infant relationship services, challenging practices and established processes, and always advocating for the rights and needs of very young children.
- Gather, analyse and present information and data about all relevant development activity across the CTM region so that it can be used to inform the work and plans of the steering group and EYTB.
- Understand the relevant policy ambitions of local and national decision makers and how these can inform the development of local parent-infant relationship help and support with reference to understanding the wider system of support available and the impact the new regional model will have on existing services, pressures and delivery models.
- Ensure the ambitions and progress to strengthen parent-infant relationship help and support is communicated to a wide range of stakeholders in appropriate and effective ways, including how this work links with other local initiatives, including consultation with local parents.
- Provide guidance to operational teams about parent-infant relationship help and support and signpost to other sources of evidence, information and advice inclusive of development and delivery of template policies, pathways, public and staff information, education and training material for the broad range of early years stakeholders.
- Deliver a range of activities which raise awareness of parent-infant relationships and the rationale for investment and development across the workforce. This may include formal presentations and some social media work.
- To be responsible for coordination and management of the budget allocated to workforce training to support skills in working with parents requiring support to develop healthy parent-infant relationships.
To be responsible for establishing and managing staff as part of developing a regional parent-infant relationship team inclusive of developing and delivering appropriate induction educational and training material.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
The Project Manager will:
- Co-ordinate the multi-agency steering group meetings, preparing presentations of potentially sensitive or contentious information and working with the Chair to ensure collaboration and joined up communication between its members.
- Ensure good join up with other relevant local initiatives and represent the parent-infant relationship regional work in various meetings.
- Consult stakeholders about the development of a specialised parent-infant relationship service, identifying potential barriers and enablers. This needs to be specific and include articulating the resource and capital needs of such a service, identifying potential delivery venues and detailing the wider implications and impacts for connected services and policies.
- Collate and/or develop assets to support the development of a specialised parent-infant relationship team (e.g. service specification, job descriptions) through leading the collaborative multi-agency development of the regional service model.
- Work with multi-agency partners to lead the development a region-wide parent-infant relationship pathway inclusive of appropriate service specification, policies and SOPs as required. This will involve collecting information, engaging stakeholders and facilitating discussion to create a mutually acceptable pathway.
- Work with service managers to audit workforce strengths and needs, to inform development of a strategic workforce development plan. Identify those practitioners with Level 3 (AiMHUK) competencies who can contribute towards new capacity-building activities across the region.
- Contribute to the planning and co-ordination of workforce development in health, social care, education and the voluntary sector including supporting the development and delivery of relevant information, education and training opportunities for the broad range of stakeholders engaged in parent-infant relationship service delivery.
- Create and manage a detailed plan of work to progress the multi-agency steering groups ambitions. This might include work to ensure IT systems can better record and report parent-infant relationship help and support (for example, being able to link parent and infant records).
- Ensure the voice of the voluntary sector is included in the project plan and development work.
- Ensure the voice of local parents are included in the project plan and development work.
- Provide the steering group with evidence briefs (e.g. THRIVE and NEST based frameworks) and options appraisals based on analysis and interpretation of relevant performance data, national and best practice service models, and relevant capacity and demand data to enable evidence-based decision making.
- Act as the first point of contact for any queries about the Parent-Infant Relationships (PIR) developments, so will need a detailed understanding of the vision, governance and day to day progress across the project work.
- Engage effectively with stakeholders to better understand their requirements and support needs to develop appropriate solutions/improvements based on complex analysis of data and situational information and development of a range of options for consideration.
- Support service leads and managers to develop their own project plans to deliver improvements in parent-infant relationship help and support, including in assessment practices and in their written information to families. This includes helping them plan, collect and analyse data about the impact of any changes.
- Collect, analyse and report data to EYTB and Starting Well Strategy Group about how many children under 2 are being seen by various services (e.g. through self-audit and partners information management systems) to inform the commissioning of strengthened parent-infant relationship help and support.
- Update the service mapping grid at reasonable intervals so that the EYTB and Starting Well Strategy Group have oversight of the regional offer to children under 2 and their families.
- Negotiate with practitioners, managers and commissioners on issues that have significant impact on the quality and quantity of parent-infant relationship services, challenging practices and established processes, and always advocating for the rights and needs of very young children.
- Gather, analyse and present information and data about all relevant development activity across the CTM region so that it can be used to inform the work and plans of the steering group and EYTB.
- Understand the relevant policy ambitions of local and national decision makers and how these can inform the development of local parent-infant relationship help and support with reference to understanding the wider system of support available and the impact the new regional model will have on existing services, pressures and delivery models.
- Ensure the ambitions and progress to strengthen parent-infant relationship help and support is communicated to a wide range of stakeholders in appropriate and effective ways, including how this work links with other local initiatives, including consultation with local parents.
- Provide guidance to operational teams about parent-infant relationship help and support and signpost to other sources of evidence, information and advice inclusive of development and delivery of template policies, pathways, public and staff information, education and training material for the broad range of early years stakeholders.
- Deliver a range of activities which raise awareness of parent-infant relationships and the rationale for investment and development across the workforce. This may include formal presentations and some social media work.
- To be responsible for coordination and management of the budget allocated to workforce training to support skills in working with parents requiring support to develop healthy parent-infant relationships.
To be responsible for establishing and managing staff as part of developing a regional parent-infant relationship team inclusive of developing and delivering appropriate induction educational and training material.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing and influencing stakeholders at senior levels on a complex project including negotiations and the handling of conflicts.
Desirable
- Experience of working with families to help and support their parent-child relationships, in the health, social care, education or voluntary sector.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to manage a variety of tasks simultaneously, and to organise and prioritise own work and that of others in order to meet project milestones as required.
Desirable
- Ability to speak/write Welsh.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Experience of managing and influencing stakeholders at senior levels on a complex project including negotiations and the handling of conflicts.
Desirable
- Experience of working with families to help and support their parent-child relationships, in the health, social care, education or voluntary sector.
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills, including the ability to manage a variety of tasks simultaneously, and to organise and prioritise own work and that of others in order to meet project milestones as required.
Desirable
- Ability to speak/write Welsh.
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
