1st Place Family Hub are recruiting for a new Fathers & Male Carers Community Wellbeing Champion.
This is a 12-month fixed term contract, working within the Borough Bankside & Walworth area of Southwark. As this role will be working specifically with fathers and male carers there is a genuine occupational reason that we are looking to appoint a male person to this role.
What does 1st Place stand for?
Our aim is to give local parents and children the greatest possible chances in life. We are a Family Hub and Early Education provider, created to serve the needs of every local parent and child. We provide a range of services from ESOL courses, benefits advice, outstanding nursery education and free family activities to parenting support and training. As we are a charity, founded to support the local community, all surplus funds are invested in services and support for the improvement of families’ lives.
The Role
– To deliver an enhanced and targeted support offer focussing on male parents and carers of children aged 0-2 to promote positive perinatal mental health & parent-infant relationships
– To support access to and improve accessibility of services in particular for fathers and male carers and seldom seen communities.
– To work in collaboration with the Healthy Minds Thrive team, to improve access to services supporting perinatal mental health and infant relationships.
– To be part of a Family Services team that delivers universal and targeted activities to improve outcomes for children and their families.
– To take a collaborative approach to multi-agency partnerships so that children and family’s needs are met in a holistic way.
– To lead on group sessions for children and families including outside of ordinary working hours and weekends from family Hubs and a range of community venues
– To promote and facilitate access to the Family Hubs programme engaging parents focussing on fathers and male carers and their children with appropriate activities to meet their needs, particularly those identified as in need of additional support
Why Choose Us?
We offer an attractive benefits package including:
Competitive salary
6% employer pension match scheme
25 days Annual Leave plus bank holidays
£1 optional lunch scheme
Company sick pay
Regular training and development opportunities
Staff social committee and events and more!
If you feel you share our values and vision, we’d love to hear from you.
At 1st Place we invest in training for all staff, and reward those who make a great contribution to the team.
Salary – £33,309 fte
Hours – 21 per week
Southwark SE5 & SE17
Closing Date for Applications:
6 June
Interviews:
18 June
We are also hiring a full time Community Wellbeing Champion, to find out more about either of these roles, please visit our website. www.1stplace.uk.com/job-vacancies
