Parent Coach

**Salary**

£27,323.51- £29,483.51 per annum

**Contractual hours**

30

**Basis**

Full time

**Region**

Warwick

**Package**

Part Time, Permanent

**Job category/type**

Social Care

**Date posted**

24/09/2025

**Job reference**

RA0007166

**About Us**

Now is an exciting time to be part of our team as Warwickshire begins to embed our Families First teams who support the children, young people and families in our County. Our approach is about locality working, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams that support the whole family. Building strong partnerships with local services, Health, Police and Education.

At Warwickshire County Council (WCC) we work with children and families restoratively, building strong relationships and connections to help families find long-lasting solutions. Our work contributes to our wider County Council aim - to make Warwickshire the best it can be for everyone. It’s a big responsibility that can be challenging at times, but this is what drives our staff to succeed, develop and achieve. If you’re someone who wants to do the best job possible, who approaches everything with passion, tenacity, courage and purpose, then we want you to work with us.

Warwickshire Children and Families continue to invest in and grow our service ensuring we can provide the right support at the right time through multi-disciplinary teams, our network and an incredible and established parenting offer.

Our Offer to you includes:

- Supportive managers who provide recognition and a robust supervision policy focussed on wellbeing and workload.
- A Volunteering & Wellbeing Day in addition to generous annual leave and an additional day at Christmas.

We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent, part time (30 hours per week delivered across 4 days) Parent Coach (Senior Family Support Worker) to join our service. This countywide role **(delivering predominantly in Rugby or Nuneaton and Bedworth districts)** will deliver a broad range of parenting interventions in addition to professional training. The Family and Relationship Offer in Warwickshire is delivered by a focused Family and Relationship Support Team who lead on the coordination, development and delivery of programmes across the county facilitating with colleagues from across the Children and Families service and wider network.

The Family and Relationship Support Team deliver across the county in venues and through a virtual offer in response to the needs of families which will include delivery during the day, evenings and weekends by prior agreement. This role will also act as the locality link for Rugby or Nuneaton and Bedworth liaising with partners in the area, analysing locality data and developing the offer in response to this.

The post holder will be confident in the delivery of information and parenting interventions to a broad audience including:

- Parents and carers
- Colleagues in Children and Families
- Colleagues in the voluntary and community sector
- Colleagues in education and learning including schools and early years

The parenting offer consists of 2-hour workshops covering a broad range of topics and longer relational based programmes as part of our stepped approach.

**About the Role**

Essential experience to be successful in the role includes:

- Proven track record of continuous professional development in relevant parenting programmes in line with the Warwickshire Parenting Approach such as Solihull Approach including “Train the Trainer” and Centre for Emotional Health programmes. Additional training will be provided.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience of demonstrably effective continuous Family Support Work coupled with delivery of specialist interventions, partnership work, coaching, mentoring or supervisory duties.
- Ability to travel across the county. Holds a full clean driving licence with and appropriate insurance cover for business use and has full access to an appropriate vehicle.
- Ability to work on a flexible basis.
- An understanding of family dynamics and child development and how parenting affects the development of the child, as evidenced in case examples.
- Ability and experience to cope with significant emotional demands, caused by contact with the most vulnerable children and families

For further information please see the Job Description and Person Specification please below:
Senior Family Support Worker/Parent Trainer

**Working for Warwickshire -**_This is the difference you make:_**

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them

At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire’s economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

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