Service Co-ordinator - Together with parents

Role Responsibility

Together with Parents Service Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has opened up in Kent’s Integrated Children’s Services for a KR11 Service Co-ordinator for an exciting newly commissioned service Together with Parents.

This is a 3-year fixed term contract

Role Responsibility

Together with Parents is a commissioned service that offers robust and consistent support to parents and carers whose child has either received a diagnosis, is awaiting diagnosis, or considering a referral to the Neurodevelopmental (ND) Pathway.  The scope of the new service will offer a range of options that aim to build resilience and self-help strategies for families, facilitated with lived experience, that can be delivered in addition to services currently on offer across the County. 

You will have robust experience of working within Early Help Services and delivery and supervision of interventions that support parents to build resilience.

You will be an experienced manager and will provide strategic oversight and operational management of all elements of the Together with Parents commissioned service, ensuring robust management and quality assurance, accountability and performance management and that contractual targets are delivered.

As an experienced parenting practitioner, you will establish and maintain robust multi-agency links with the key partner agencies in order to promote an integrated and joined up approach to work with parents, ensuring a consistent and reliable countywide service is delivered, with in-built flexibility to meet local demand.

You will promote and develop experts with lived experience within the delivery model in order to strengthen and promote a robust model of working, ensuring the voice of the child/young person is also embedded into all areas of the delivery model.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure Application to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

The role is based in Invicta House, Maidstone but will involve working from home as well

Contact Details

For further information, please contact:

Jennie Sargent

Tel: 03000 412098

jennie.sargent@kent.gov.uk

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.