Parent Lead Officer

**Parent Lead Officer**
We are One Housing and we create places for people to call home and support them to live well. With a breadth of services and expertise to help people whatever their housing, care, or support needs.

Our Homelessness and Prevention team is friendly and we love what we do. We are passionate about the high-quality support we provide.

We offer our colleagues a friendly, collaborative workplace and the chance to build a rewarding career with a not-for
- profit organisation that is proud to make a genuine difference to people’s lives, each and every day.

**Join our Homelessness and Prevention team as a Parent Lead Officer.**

Housing sits at the heart of our organisation. We believe that everyone deserves a safe, secure, affordable home. Providing care and support to those who need it is an important part of what we do. We work with people experiencing homelessness and who often have other support needs. Our services include hostels, young peoples’ accommodation services and support delivered in the community; where we provide tailored support that prepares our customers to achieve independence and re-integrate within the community.

We’re an organisation with strong values. We keep our promises; we do a great job; we value diversity; we work together; and we look for ways to improve. These are what make us such a great team, working together as one to achieve our vision.

**The role**
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Parent Lead Officer.

**Salary**: £25,000 per annum
**Location**: Camden

We are looking for a motivated, flexible and committed individual to work at our 8-bed, 24hour complex needs young parents’ scheme in Camden.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Support effective links between relevant agencies in Camden, including the Youth Offending Team, Children’s Services, parenting skills programmes, Early Years, local health services and other relevant agencies and support the wider Early Help agenda.
- Prepare clear and concise reports for meetings related to the welfare of the child is a must - e.g. child protection meetings, child in need meetings, in house Review meetings, strategy meetings, legal planning meetings and care proceedings.
- Deliver evidence-based parenting programmes, which includes organising and delivering group sessions and training staff within the service to run the programme themselves ensuring we have a model that is sustainable now and in the future. One-to-one interventions will also be delivered by the Parenting lead officer, where appropriate
- Representing the service at external local authority/provider panels and conferences
- Supporting the management team with auditing of files and quarterly organisational quality support audits
- Facilitate and encourage effective customer participation, consultation and feedback within the service.
- Promote Social Inclusion

**What you will need to succeed**
We are looking for someone who believes in working together as part of a team, who shares our values and who is positive and friendly.
- Must have experience of working with young parents and have extensive demonstrable experience of parenting work and undertaking parenting assessments, family support, child protection and some experience of care proceedings.
- Experience of planning 1-1 work with hard to engage parents and undertaking observations as part of the assessment process.
- The ability to deal with considerable levels of work-related pressure, for example from deadlines, interruptions or conflicting demands.
- Applicants must be educated to Level 3 or degree level or a professional qualification in a relevant field such as Health & Social Care, Social Work, Sociology or Family and Adolescent studies. Must also have an experience of programme delivery with either children or families
- Experience and Knowledge of safeguarding legislation
- Completing comprehensive reports for statutory meetings (child protection/professionals meetings etc)

**The offer**

**Salary**: £25,000 per annum
- **Your holidays are important to us.** Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- **Lean travel.** Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- **Looking forward to your big bucket list trip?** You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
- **Get paid to do good**. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- **Look after your loved ones.** Our healthcare cash back plan allows you to claim back cash for you and your family’s healthcare.
- **Well done** With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- **Learning never stops.** One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- **We’re here for you.** Our employee assistance programme offers counselling