About The Service
Cardiff Parenting & Play are part of Cardiff Council. The team sits with other support services for infants, children, young people and their parents/carers, in Cardiff Early Help.
Cardiff Early Help is an innovative and progressive service within the Adults, Housing & Communities directorate in Cardiff Council. The service seeks to work with parents to be, infants, children, young people, and their caregivers. Early Help consists of several multi-professional teams that work collaboratively, as well as with partners, to offer families information, advice, and assistance.
Cardiff Parenting & Play offer universal, targeted and specialised support to parents and children, through a variety of stay & play groups, open access play sessions, Flying Start childcare, creche, groups, parenting programmes, learning opportunities, structured and bespoke 1:1 work with parents. The different elements of our service piece together to offer support to meet varying levels of need from pregnancy through to the time a child reaches adulthood. Cardiff Parenting & Play is strategically managed by an Educational Psychologist, who will be the direct line manager of the successful candidate.
You can learn more about elements of Early Help by visiting the website: www.cardifffamilies.co.uk
Information about our Parenting Services can be found online: Cardiff Parenting 0-18 - Cardiff Family Advice and Support : Cardiff Family Advice and Support (cardifffamilies.co.uk)
We also post on our Twitter and Facebook pages – search for Cardiff Parenting – Rhianta Caerdydd, and for Cardiff Children’s Play Services to find out more.
After working with us, parents have said:
"We’re connecting and having fun together and our bond is stronger than ever’.
About the job
This is a newly created, senior manager post, to strategically manage existing teams that deliver early intervention and prevention parenting & creche, childcare and play services to families across Cardiff with children aged 0-18, or up to 25 in the case of vulnerable young people.
The successful candidate will line manage the Service/Team managers of:
- Flying Start (early years) parenting groups. This well-established team offer a menu of groups for parents to join with their chid age 0-4, and formal parenting programmes for parents to attend, in Flying Start postcodes in Cardiff.
- Connecting Families. This established team provides manual-led parenting programmes on a group and 1:1 basis to parents with children and young people up to the age of 18, across Cardiff.
- Cardiff Children’s Play Service – This is an existing team of Senior Playworkers and Playworkers, who have recently moved into Early Help from another Directorate in the Council. Our community playwork team operate both open and closed access play schemes across Cardiff all year round; providing sessions for children aged 5-14 from a Care Inspectorate Wales (CiW) registered provision and peripatetically across Cardiff.
- Creche & Flying Start Childcare – we have 2 CIW registered childcare settings in Cardiff, providing quality childcare for 2-3 years old as part of Cardiff Flying Start. We also have a team of Creche Assistants who provide on-site creche facilities for children of parents attending parenting programmes.
We are seeking to appoint someone to the role who will be responsible leading, overseeing, co-ordinating and managing the delivery of creche, childcare, play, evidence-based early engagement and manual-led parenting programmes for infants, children, young people and parents.
The successful candidate will be responsible for delivery, standards, milestones and targets of the Services and will contribute to improving outcomes for infants, children and young people directly and indirectly by promoting the confidence and capacity of parents to impact their child’s development, wellbeing, emotional and mental health
This is a full time, 37 hour per week role. Full details of the Job Description can be found in the attachment below.
We will offer you:
- An induction to your role and the Early Help Services
- A friendly and supportive working environment.
- Regular support and supervision to support you in your work.
- A wide and extensive training programme with opportunities to train in specific areas.
- The resources you need to carry out your job safely and confidently.
Cardiff Council has a variety of supportive policies for its employees. We take the welfare of all of our staff seriously and we strive to deliver positive working arrangements that support our amazing workforce to feel respected and valued. Here’s some examples of how we try to achieve this:
- A generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days per year to a maximum of 33 days per year after 5 years, with the option to purchase additional annual leave to a maximum of 10 days.
- Hybrid working – supporting you to flexibly deliver your role whether on visits, from an office or your home.
- Access to the Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Pension Fund which is part of the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), offering a reputable, secure and flexible pension plan for peace of mind.
What We Are Looking For From You
We are looking for a suitably confident and competent leader to take on a new leadership role. The post is newly created to reflect the growth of the service and the need for increased capacity to ensure that we are delivering quality provision for families.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
- Extensive experience in a leadership/management role within a service team or project for children, young people or families, which involves the management and supervision of service teams and associated budgets.
- Extensive experience of developing and implementing best practise procedures.
- Experience in identifying and managing safeguarding issues in relation to children, young people and their families.
- Completion of training and experienced the delivery of, evidence based Parenting interventions.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of requirements, including Cardiff Council’s Behavioural Competencies.
Refer to the Job description and person specification and tell us how you meet the criteria set out in these when completing your application, and please note we do not accept a CV as an application for the post.
Additional information
If you would like to discuss the post prior to application, please contact Sarah Fitzgibbon, Principal Educational Psychologist (Parenting & Play) on 07989 668186
This post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check.
We welcome applications in both English and Welsh. Applications received in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than English applications.
Please note the Council does not accept CV’s. When completing the supporting information section of your application, please ensure you refer to the below located on our website:
Important information you need read in order to complete your application:-
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