We are looking for a full-time Father and Partner Wellbeing Coordinator to join Parents 1st UK.
Hours: 37.5 per week (full-time)
Renumeration: £30,639 Plus NEST Pension Scheme
Location: Home based with occasional travel (must be based in Essex)
As experts in perinatal peer support, we believe that every parent deserves support, and every baby deserves the best possible start in life.
If you have lived experience of parenting, an interest in good mental health and emotional wellbeing and understand the challenges experienced by dads/partners during the transition to parenthood, then we’d love to hear from you!
Our background:
Parents 1st is dedicated to enabling quality peer support to flourish during pregnancy, birth and beyond. The evidence is clear - effective and sustainable peer support nurtures the emotional wellbeing of mothers, fathers, partners, and babies, and builds strengths in communities. We work both locally and nationally to achieve this aim.
Our national work: Parents 1st UK, an ‘open source’ online community platform, is dedicated to sharing all the resources necessary to set up a perinatal peer support initiative. It freely shares all the tools that our local programme (Parents 1st Essex) uses in daily practice, from budget setting to impact tracking. Working with commissioners and providers, Parents 1st UK also provides consultancy and workshops to help build new perinatal peer support initiatives in communities.
Our local work: Parents 1st Essex currently operates in South and North Essex, delivering perinatal peer support to parents, through 1-1 or group support. Peer supporters engage and develop trusting relationships with parents during pregnancy, continue support through birth and the first few months afterwards.
Alongside this, Parents 1st also leads the Essex Peer to Parent Network, a peer support collaborative that aims to develop a hub of good practice across Essex. The Peer to Parent Network employs 4 Peer Support Link Workers who work alongside the local maternity units in Essex, helping parents to access peer support during pregnancy or anytime during the first year after birth.
All staff and volunteers are truly committed to our cause and are passionate about helping parents.
The role:
You will be responsible for coordinating an Essex-wide wellbeing service that assists pre and post birth fathers and partners referred by mental health teams to self-assess their own wellbeing and access appropriate support.
The overall aim of this new service for fathers and partners is to:
- Reduce their anxiety during the perinatal period (i.e., the period from pregnancy to 1-year post birth) and to help them to find ways to navigate the challenges of parenthood and maintain their emotional wellbeing.
- Have easier access to support and information designed specifically for their needs.
- Feel less isolated by having easier access to networks for self-support.
- Gain knowledge about maternal mental health to enable confident support for mothers and birthing people.
(This is not a clinical post)
TO APPLY
- Download the job description
- Complete the application form and tell us why you’re interested and what you could bring to this role. (Please note: the link to the application form will open in Google Docs. You will need to download a copy before you can edit it. Please get in touch if you have any issues and we can email a copy of the application form across instead)
Please send your completed application to [email protected]
Closing date: Midday, Friday 29 March 2024
Interviews: Week beginning 1st April (Exact date tbc)
Parents 1st embraces diversity and welcomes applications from all backgrounds and all parts of the community.