Dad Matters St Helens Co-ordinator

4 days ago

St Helens, United Kingdom Home-Start St. Helens Full time

**Home-Start St. Helens**

**Dad Matters Co-ordinator**

**Do you have the interpersonal skills, experience and passion to become a Dad Matters St. Helens Co-ordinator.**

The role involves the delivery of needs led universal and targeted interventions, to dads and male carers in the community, focusing on attachment, bonding, mental health as well as accessing relevant services.

If you feel you have the skills and attributes, please see the attached job description and person specification.

**Your supporting statement explains how you feel you are a good fit for the role applied for, we cannot shortlist you for interview without it.**

**Closing date is Thursday, 27th June 2024 at 12 noon.**

**Interviews will be held on Friday, 12th July 2024.**

**Job Title**: Dad Matters Co-ordinator

**Employer**: Home-Start St. Helens

**Hours of work**: 35 hours per week - including some weekend and out of normal office hours work (please contact 01744 737400 if more information is required)

**Responsible to**: Manager

**Base**:Home-Start St. Helens, Peter Street Community Centre, Peter Street, St. Helens, WA10 2EQ, 01744 737400

**Purpose of the Job**

**The Dad Matters Co-ordinators deliver a range of universal and targeted interventions aimed at male parents in the First 1001 Days. They support dads and other male carers with attachment and bonding, mental health and access to services. They also work with professionals and perinatal services to ensure dads and male carers are engaged, supported and heard within clinical pathways.**

The post holder will:

- Build on the Home-Start St. Helens foundation of peer support by engaging and supporting dads in one to one and group situations.
- Ensure that parent - infant relationships are a thread through every relationship and conversation with dads.
- Raise awareness of the risks of poor mental health for fathers and their families during the perinatal period.
- Raise awareness of the impact on fathers of caring for a partner affected by perinatal mental health issues.
- Develop the Dad Matters volunteer role across St. Helens.
- Develop close links with other health and voluntary agencies in St. Helens.
- Facilitate regular consultation with fathers through outreach and focus groups.

**Main Responsibilities**

**Support to Dads**

The post holder will provide individual and group support to dads during the perinatal period.

This will involve the following:

- Meeting dads at antenatal clinics.
- Facilitating or co-facilitating antenatal Dad Chats in person and online.
- Supporting the developments of support offered to dads with children on NICU and those with partners in receipt of care from Perinatal Mental Health teams, Adult Mental Health, IAPT and Parent Infant Mental Health teams.
- Signposting and supporting access to other services as appropriate.
- Undertake designated responsibilities to safeguard and promote children’s welfare.
- Ensure equality of opportunity, fairness and diversity in all aspects of work.
- Facilitate regular focus groups with fathers in order to ensure that all resources are targeted appropriately.

**Promotion & Awareness Raising**:

- Maintain up-to-date information for dads and make this available through the Dad Matters website and a range of social media.
- Ensure the integrity of the Dad Matters Brand when engaging dads and professionals.

**Recruiting & Managing Volunteers - this will involve**:

- Promoting, developing and delivering volunteer recruitment campaigns.
- Recruiting, selecting and preparing suitable volunteers.
- Arranging and co-ordinating volunteer activity in person and online.
- Providing support and supervision for volunteers engaged in working with dads.
- To provide further training for Home-Start St. Helens home visiting volunteers as appropriate.

**Monitoring & Evaluation**:

- Support the evaluation of the impact of Dad Matters.
- Ensure accurate and relevant record keeping and data collection.

**Working in Partnership**
- Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with key health partners, including those from local Family Hub Teams, Parent Infant Mental Health teams, Midwifery, IAPT, Perinatal Teams, Adult Mental Health, Health Visiting and other VCSE groups.
- Networking appropriately within the community.
- Delivering/co-delivering training to multi-agency colleagues as appropriate.

**Supporting the work of Home-Start St. Helens**
- To contribute to the effective day to day operation of Home-Start St. Helens in accordance with the Home-Start St. Helens Memorandum & Articles of Association, Standards & Methods of Practice, Home-Start St. Helens Agreement and Quality Assurance Standards.
- Undertaking work as delegated by the Manager to support the strategic management, development and future funding of Home-Start St. Helens.
- Supporting the implementation and review of Home-Start St. Helens policies and procedures.
- Complying with Home-Start St. Helens administration, monitoring a

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