Family Wellbeing Practitioner

The postholder will provide advice, guidance and coaching to parents and carers of children aged 8-18 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.

As part of the Mindworks partnership, The Eikon Charity provides a wide range of emotional wellbeing and mental health services for children & young people. Through this work we have seen how challenging parents and carers can find supporting their children’s emotional wellbeing difficulties. Supported by funding from the Surrey Wellbeing Partnership Innovation Fund, we are delighted to be recruiting to this new role of Family Wellbeing Practitioner, which expands our current Community Wellbeing Team offer. This is a collaboration with YMCA East Surrey working in partnership to ensure consistency of support to parents and carers across Surrey. This role will be supporting parent/carers within Elmbridge and Runnymede.

Responsibilities

• 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 create, develop and deliver one-to-one interventions, workshops and presentations for small parent/carer groups covering a range of emotional wellbeing and mental health topics.
• To set up and facilitate peer-to-peer support and discussion groups.
• 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 who will provide support to parents/carers across Tandridge, Reigate and Banstead
• To promote the service within The Eikon Charity and with statutory and voluntary sector partners across the region – this might include presentations at networking events and production of promotional material.
• To help assess the needs and strengths of the parents/carers referred into the service and help them identify short-term goals to achieve desired change.
• Record and review parent/carer goals using the Goal-Based Outcomes tool and use this to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions.
• To involve parents/carers in the co-design of group work and ensure that the service responds to user voice and meets the needs identified.
• Record and collect data with various tools and use this to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions  
• To take responsibility for own caseload of parents/carers, some with complex and multiple needs  
•  To work collaboratively with other Eikon delivery teams in delivering interventions for children, young people and families.
• To keep accurate records of individual engagement, evidence of change and celebrate progress with parents/carers
• To provide, record and report the appropriate data to ensure support programmes can be accurately monitored and evaluated   
• To provide written case studies as evidence of the effectiveness of individual interventions 
• To assist with the development and progression of the service by adhering to all communication requests and assisting with peer progression development when requested through case supervision

Organisational requirements 

• Understand and act when safeguarding issues need to be escalated
• Work as part of a team and attend team meetings, training events and participate fully in 1:1
• Work co-operatively and under the management of The Eikon Charity staff to ensure the highest quality of delivery and support
• Work within Eikon’s internal policies, safeguarding and data protection regulations
• Be responsible for equipment/resources
• Work some planned evenings or weekends
• To promote, monitor and maintain health safety and security in the working environment
• Attend and actively participate in regular clinical supervision
• Other work as requested by your line manager as needed to support our aims