Parenting Worker

Job Description
Join Our Parenting Team - Make a Difference in East Cornwall
The Service & Team
Our Parenting Team is passionate about supporting families through every stage of their parenting journey. We believe that parents and carers play a vital role in shaping their children's lives, and we're here to celebrate that role—while also offering a helping hand when challenges arise. Our team delivers a wide range of evidence-based programmes, both in person and online, designed to build confidence, strengthen relationships, and support child development. We work closely with multi-agency partners to ensure families can access the right support at the right time, and we're proud to foster welcoming, inclusive spaces where parents can connect, learn, and grow together.

The Role
There are two posts available, one full-time (37 hours) and one part-time (25.9 hours). These positions will cover the East of Cornwall.

As a Parenting Worker, you will deliver interactive evidence-based parenting support programmes both face-to-face and online, helping parents and carers build confidence and strengthen family relationships. You will work closely with multi-agency partners to promote and deliver Cornwall's support offer to families across the region.

This is a public/customer-facing role, where the statutory English language requirement for public sector workers applies.

This position will be subject to an enhanced criminal record disclosure check.

Working Pattern
There are two posts available, one full-time (37 hours) and one part-time (25.9 hours). The normal duties of the role may involve work outside normal office hours at times, including early starts and late finishes. A reasonable level of flexibility in order to fulfil the requirements of the role is a condition of employment

What You'll Need To Succeed

• A confident communicator with excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong IT skills and comfort with online delivery platforms
• A solid understanding of child development and the challenges families face
• Experience working with families or in a community support setting is a plus

Please read the role profile for the full details of this role attached below in this advert
What You'll Get In Return
Cornwall Council's ambition is to be an employer of choice, a high performing Council and a learning organisation. We commit to providing a reward and benefits package to attract, motivate and reward our employees. We offer a range of flexible working options to our staff. This helps provide our employees with a greater work/life balance, whilst still ensuring that service needs are met.

Our Core Employee Rewards And Benefits Include

• a competitive salary.
• a defined benefit pension scheme, based on your career average earnings. This includes the option for extra voluntary contributions
• a generous annual leave entitlement with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A national award-winning employee health and wellbeing programme
• Employee benefits scheme giving employees access to a wide range of discounts to local and national goods and services.

Additional Information
Cornwall Council is unable to offer visa sponsorship or transfer existing sponsorship for this role.

The full role profile is attached
here
We recommend saving a copy of this to refer to if you are invited to an interview.

For more information or an informal chat about the role please contact Rachel Wilson-Powell, Professional Lead for Parenting -

Application Process
Please attach a supporting statement to your application, you can add your Education & Qualifications details manually using the application form timeline or you can upload your CV. Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points marked as 'Application' on the Role Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had. Guidance on how to complete your application can be found here – The application process .

Please note that applications cannot be edited after they have been submitted, please contact if you have any queries or require assistance with your application.

Existing employees must apply using their Cornwall Council email address through the Opportunity Marketplace on Oracle.