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Specialist Senior Link Worker – Reducing Parental Conflict

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Passionate about listening to, and supporting families?

As part of the Vennture’s Families Programme we are developing a project to support families to reduce the impact of parental conflict. Vennture will work with schools, developing a model to address parental conflict in dispersed rural populations. Rural families who are dealing with parental conflict are hidden, disconnected, and unable to access timely, meaningful support.

Vennture is seeking a Specialist Senior Link Worker to work with the Programme Lead to develop the programme and to work collaboratively with small rural schools and alongside families who are finding things tough and need support to overcome the barriers they are facing to reach their full potential.  

You will be fully trained in our relational approach and supported to carry out the following duties and responsibilities.

• Work with Herefordshire primary schools to raise teacher awareness of parental conflict, share the toolkit and pro-actively identify parents in conflict.
• Work sensitively with parents who experience parental conflict including those living together and separated
• Maintain your own caseload of families and play an active part in supporting, mentoring and developing a team of link workers and providing professional supervision.
• Mentor parents for 6 months by integrating parental conflict tools into our proven family programmes.
• Provide a parental conflict helpline for rural schools, communities and families including a rapid referral process to better meet the needs of parents in crisis.
• Use Vennture’s personalised Journey Mapping tool to help parents understand their conflict, unpack what they want and harvest insights on parental conflict.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure a high standard of service to families
• Work within established procedures for handling information, both confidentially and taking account of safeguarding and assessing risk.
• Deputise for the Programme Lead as necessary and have a role in the ongoing development of the programme
• Develop and train a team of volunteers to build a legacy of support for parents experiencing parental conflict

The benefits you will experience are….

• You will work within a strong supportive team of link workers and volunteers who are passionate about making a difference for families.
• You will work in our lovely riverside office, close to the city centre where there is plenty of space to work collaboratively and talk through problems over a piece of cake!
• Supported and full induction programme and robust safe working protocols
• You will automatically be enrolled into Vennture’s workplace pension NEST and be covered by our non-contributory life insurance policy
• Membership of discount buying schemes

What we’re looking for…..

• You will have experience, be resilient and be passionate about wanting to making a difference to children and families.
• It is important that you understand that parenting can be difficult and challenging and are able to work with diverse family situations in a non-judgemental way.
• Knowledge and awareness of the difficulties of parenting and stresses of family life.
• You will be experienced in working with families or individuals and supporting a team
• You will have experience of responding to safeguarding concerns and risks
• You will have experience of providing professional supervision.
• You will have the ability to think creatively to solve problems and inspire others.
• You will have the ability to present to groups of people
• You will have the ability to lead by example and respond confidently to situations to deliver high quality services.
• You will need to be a car driver with access to a car.

If you are an inspirational and committed individual with a real desire to support people, we want to hear from you.

Further information can be found in the full job description and person specification or for more details you can e mail Richard.griffiths@vennture.org.uk.

Closing Date: Wednesday May 17, 2023 at 5 pm -  Interviews: Tuesday May 30, 2023

Vennture adheres to Safer Recruiting principles and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

Vennture – formerly Hereford City Mission founded by John Venn in 1856
www.vennture.org.uk - enquiries@vennture.org.uk - 0330 20 20 730

26, Vicarage Road, Hereford, HR1 2QN

A registered charity No 1156851 and company limited by guarantee No 8803798

For more information contact

An application form and the job description are available to download from our website http://www.vennture.org.uk/working-for-vennture/  or you can e-mail julia.over@vennture.org.uk to request this or phone the office on 0330 20 20 730.

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