Parent Wellbeing Adviser

The postholder will provide advice, guidance and coaching to parents and carers of children aged 11+ years to help them to develop new awareness and skills to enhance their support to their children through a combination of group-work and one-to-one sessions. We are looking to recruit an empathic, warm, friendly, hard-working and flexible person who is passionate about supporting parents and carers whose children are experiencing emotional wellbeing and mental health difficulties. They must be a team player with excellent communication and organisational skills, able to prioritise and manage their own workload. They must be able to work independently within the community.

-To work collaboratively and effectively with statutory and voluntary agencies
to identify parents/carers in need of support and to agree effective referral
processes.

– To design, develop and deliver workshops and presentations for small
parent/carer groups covering a range of emotional wellbeing and mental
health topics.

– To facilitate peer-to-peer support and discussion groups.

– To offer one or more one-to-one consultation and advice sessions for
parents/carers who need a more personalised approach.

– To identify a range of specialist services and agencies who can offer further
support for parents and families.

– To work in partnership with YMCA East Surrey’s Face2Face service.

– To work in partnership with Home-Start Epsom, Ewell and Banstead who will
provide support to parents/carers with children aged under 11 years.

– To promote the service within YMCA East Surrey and with statutory and
voluntary sector partners across the region – this might include presentations
at networking events and production of promotional material.

– To collect appropriate data and information about families being supported, to
record attendance at group and one-to-one sessions and to report activity
monthly

-To collect feedback on support delivered and to use feedback to inform
continued development of the service.

– You will deliver services from YMCA East Surrey sites and other community
venues across the following areas – Banstead, Tadworth, Epsom, Ewell,
Ashtead, Leatherhead, Dorking and Esher.

– Any other duties which you are required to be performed within the grade and
renumeration of the role.

– We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and
young people/vulnerable adults. This role will require an enhanced DBS
disclosure (with barred children/vulnerable adults). We require you to
understand and demonstrate this commitment and attend any required
training