Family Support & Perinatal Team Lead

Hertfordshires Family Centre Service is made up of the Public Health Nursing Service (Health Visitors and School Nurses) and the Family Support Service. Our purpose is to support children and families to have the best start in life develop well and thrive. We provide families with children aged up to 5 years with a wide range of services information and support on key areas relating to family life.

The Family Support & Perinatal Lead is responsible for leading supervising and developing the Family Support and Perinatal Practitioner teams across their localities ensuring high-quality delivery of family support perinatal services and early years interventions. The role oversees case management quality assurance safeguarding and partnership working ensuring services meet the needs of families from the antenatal period to age five. With a strong focus on supporting vulnerable families maintaining service performance and promoting inclusive accessible provision the postholder plays a key role in driving high standards across the Family Support Service and upholding YMCA values.

The Role
Line manage Family Support and Perinatal Practitioners including Senior roles overseeing supervision performance reviews and case audits.
Ensure high-quality delivery of family support and perinatal services including sessions interventions home visiting and digital support.
Deliver targeted and specialised support to meet family needs working closely with PHN Social Care and multi-agency partners.
Represent the Family Support Service at professional multi-agency meetings.
Monitor and achieve key performance indicators.
Carry out Designated Safeguarding Lead responsibilities ensuring robust safeguarding practice.
Some evening and Saturday work on occasion. Centre opening hours are between 8:00am 6pm.

Requirements
Knowledge and experience of Family Centres family support perinatal services and Early Help/Safeguarding procedures.
Experience as a Designated Safeguarding Person and ability to follow local authority safeguarding processes.
Proven experience leading managing and developing staff including performance management.
Ability to build strong multiagency relationships and engage families who may be reluctant or harder to reach.
Strong organisational planning and problemsolving skills with the ability to coordinate workloads effectively.
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to manage difficult conversations and work collaboratively.
Relevant Level 4 qualification (health education childcare social care) and willingness to obtain additional required training.
A full UK driving licence access to a vehicle insured for business use and a willingness to travel on a regular basis


Please note that we are unable to offer visa sponsorship and can only accept applications from individuals who already have the right to work in the UK.

As some roles involve working with vulnerable people a Basic or Enhanced DBS check may be required following a conditional job offer.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. If you have applied for a similar role within the last 6 months and were unsuccessful please consider whether your experience has significantly developed before reapplying.

One YMCA is committed to providing reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know in advance if you require any adjustments to support your application.

We are an inclusive organisation that promotes equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to building a diverse workforce with a wide range of skills experiences and abilities

This is a Full Time role.
Hours per week: 37.5
Working Pattern: 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Monday-Friday

One YMCA and its subsidiaries the Early Childhood Partnership (ECP) and Signpost are on an exciting journey to double our impact by 2025. We are over half way through an exciting new strategy launched in the first hour of the new decade via email where all staff and volunteers were invited to put themselves forward to apply and attend an intensive three-day Kickstarter Event.

By the end of these three days there was a brilliantly multi-faceted set of themes and ideas which formed the starting point for the rest of the Mission 25 process to build on. The aim of Mission 25 is to give every staff member and volunteer the opportunity to play their part in shaping the strategy to do more and better together so that we double our impact by 2025. We deliver a vast array of services across Herts Beds and Bucks that reach over 135000 individuals annually.

These include:

• Provision of over 700 units of accommodation for homeless people
• Move on accommodation for individuals moving onto independent living
• Housing and practical/emotional support for young asylum seekers
• Community HUBs hosting a range of activities and meeting space hire
• Childcare provision in Hertfordshire
• Family support through a network of childrens and family centres covering Hertfordshire and Bedford
• Therapeutic and non-therapeutic support for male and female victims of domestic abuse and their children
• Independent sexual violence services across Bedfordshire Luton and Hertfordshire
• Domestic abuse perpetrator reform programmes across Bedfordshire
• Youth services offering emotional wellbeing support and youth club opportunities for 11-19 year olds alongside our National Airplay programme funded by the RAF Benevolent Fund
• A community gym where everyone can enjoy the benefits of physical exercise Our values remain at the forefront of how we operate as a charity and it is important to us that all staff and volunteers can fully buy in to our ethos.