Family Engagement & Participation Worker
£28,232 - £31,369 per annum + benefits
Type: Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Cheadle Hulme
Search are currently recruiting a Family Engagement & Participation Worker to join a Family Services Department team. The key part of the Family Engagement & Participation Worker role is to ensure that children, young adults, and their parents and carers voice is listened to, valued and that co-production is at the heart of all our services. The Family Services Department is the 'front door' service for families and professionals, offering a 'one-stop shop' of family support and admissions into school, college, health, and care. We are looking for caring and empathetic candidate who has experience of individual and strategic co-production with children and young people who access education, health, and care services.
It is an incredibly exciting time to join the team and a wonderful opportunity to play an integral role in making a difference to our children and young people's lives.
Key responsibilities:
- To facilitate support and provide appropriate information and additional resources to enable parents and carers to engage and participate.
- To advocate for families to be included in the design, development, delivery, and review of SEND policies, procedures and services.
- To work closely with the Policy and Campaign Officer and Family Liaison Workers.
- To play an active role as a Stockport SEND Champion and to attend SEND relevant meetings.
- To promote recognition and celebration of children, young adults and parents and carers involved in co-producing services.
- To set up and run a range of engagement processes including parents and carers in decision making meetings, interviews, parent/ carer forums, focus groups, consultations, pulse surveys.
- To work in a collaborative and flexible way, acting as a role model to colleagues and building strong relationships across the Trust.
About you...
- GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or equivalent qualifications, in English and maths.
- Train the Trainer qualification would be desirable but is not essential.
- You will have strong presentation skills and have experience of delivering interactive meetings, focus groups and workshops.
- The ability to empower and engage parents and carers, children, and young people to have a voice and contribute to decisions which make long term positive changes for their future.
- Substantial experience of working directly with families, building effective relationships and securing improved outcomes.
- An excellent understanding of SEND Legislation.
- Be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of children, young adults, and their families, which may include evening and weekend working.
- Excellent communication skills, written, verbal and influencing skills.
Benefits:
Pension scheme, life assurance, on site gym/fitness classes, employee assistance and wellbeing programmes, access to free counselling, physio support, cycle scheme, free parking and lots more!
If this vacancy is of interest to you, or if you may know somebody suitable, please reach out to or alternatively give us a ring at .
Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.