Parent-infant Relationship Practitioner

**PARENT-INFANT RELATIONSHIP PRACTITIONER - ALL YEAR ROUND 20 hours**

**£25,204.40 FTE £13,624.00 Pro Rata**

**Interview date**: Friday, 12th April 2024

Millom Children’s Centre, Lapstone Road, Millom, Cumbria LA18 4LP

**About us**

Good Enough Start is at the forefront of community-based, parent-infant relationship services in Cumberland. With the national conversation increasingly focussed on infant mental health this is a hugely exciting time to be working in this service.

**About the Role**

Good Enough Start is seeking a Parent-Infant Relationship to deliver a programme of activities in Millom and the surrounding area.

The role requires someone eager to support their community, in particular, infant and parent emotional well-being. You will share the latest thinking around parent-infant relationship development and model positive behaviours that enhance and strengthen the parent-infant attachment bond.

You will contribute to ensuring the smooth delivery of the service, planning and operating a fun, interactive, creative and informative group activity programme that includes brain-based learning and age-appropriate activities. Good Enough Start plans to expand our offer (i.e. learning outdoors, post-natal fitness, art, early literacy, numeracy activities) so your ideas will be welcomed into the discussion, decision-making and planning process.

Good Enough Start is committed to understanding the impact we are making. You will have the opportunity to contribute to evaluation and data collection to enhance the service in real-time as well as understand the difference we are making over the longer term. You will share parent-infant relationship-focused information to empower parents so that they can continue activities at home. You will collaborate effectively within the team and with other family service professionals as required.

We have identified a range of essential training and development opportunities for staff which you will be expected to fully commit to. We offer established access to robust specialist clinical supervision and training and are currently engaged in developing, regular interface meetings and co-facilitated activities.

We are looking for an inclusive, compassionate, solution-focused team player who is committed to building high-quality relationships with all the people you work with. Someone resourceful, comfortable delivering group activities and able to professionally process sometimes challenging information or situations.

**Responsibilities**
- Ongoing active self-management (engaging in reflection and supervision)
- Ongoing active self-motivation (management of work schedule and priorities)
- Ongoing completion of training in attachment-based interventions, ‘GroBrain®’, strength-based coaching, trauma-informed practice and safeguarding as appropriate
- Role model the ethos, values and behaviours of the service
- Build effective professional relationships with everyone you meet
- Collaborate effectively within the team and with other family service professionals as required
- Be the ‘voice’ for the baby
- Share knowledge of recent research surrounding the parent-infant relationship strength-based support and secure attachment benefits
- Plan and deliver the universal group activity programme to include attachment, brain-based learning and age-appropriate activities
- Model and coach positive behaviours in response to meeting an infant’s needs
- Engage fully in regular team supervision and specialist clinical supervision
- Employ trauma-informed, strength-based coaching interventions and safeguarding practices
- Contribute to ideas for data collection within service delivery**
- Use insights to contribute to decision-making and ongoing service design and delivery
- Contribute to data analysis to understand the difference the service is making
- Share insights widely

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £13,624.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Parent -Infant Relationship Practitioner