Baby Steps Facilitator Wiltshire

The Baby Steps Program has been commissioned as part of the Wiltshire Child and Family Wellbeing Service - Public Health Nurse led Service .

Baby Steps is an evidence based antenatal and early postnatal program to enable parents who are more likely to need extra help  to build supportive relationships and transition to parenthood.

Introductions to the program are largely from Midwifery services,

The program consists of an initial home visit ,6 antenatal and 3 post-natal sessions.

The program is interactive and focuses on the transition to parenthood, the relationship between parents and the development of a positive parent-infant relationship. Topics include preparation for birth, breast feeding, practical baby care and focuses on key themes that reflect the importance of protective factors in the perinatal period.
Package DescriptionAs a Baby Steps Facilitator, you’ll be part of our valued team at our Trowbridge Hub

You will feel valued as a Baby Steps Facilitator within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£35,392 to £42,618 with Band 6 Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions
Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 
Plentiful on site-parking
Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main Responsibilities
Ensuring the full remit of the Baby Steps program is offered and where appropriate delivered to the defined eligible client group.
To facilitate the program in full partnership with trained Family Hub facilitators.
Support the delivery of  a minimum of 6 program's a year from each site
Provide cover for the other Baby Steps health professional facilitators in times of absence to ensure consistent running of program.
Obtain and document consent from families for information to be shared for both program delivery and program evaluation purposes.
Ensure evaluation information and data is gathered in accordance with local agreements
To ensure that the program is delivered to the highest quality standards ensuring adherence to the fidelity of the program.
Support father inclusivity.
To effectively faciliitate groups.
To maintain basic knowledge and skills to support breast feeding and safe and responsive bottle feeding.
To participate in networking with all other relevant agencies to enable a seamless pathway of care.
Keep coherent records of all activity in line with service protocols.
Have a clear understanding of the value of the containing and strengths-based approach used in the Baby Steps program.
Knowledge of the risk and protective factors during the perinatal period, including parental mental health and couple relationship.
Identify and support participants who may need additional support and targeted intervention.
To have a clear understanding of and work within the Wiltshire Safeguarding Procedures to identify vulnerable children in need of safeguarding involvement.
Support and empower families to model secure attachments.
Knowledge and understanding of infants’ physical, cognitive and emotional development.
Knowledge of the importance and theory of attachment in pregnancy and early childhood.
Knowledge of the risk and protective factors during the perinatal period, including parental mental health and couple relationship.
To empower partcipants to problem solve and plan their future.

The Ideal CandidateEssential

Midwifery or General Nursing qualification
Experience of facilitating groups and delivering evidence based programmes
Experience of working with vulnerable parents and those who may not usually engage with services
Experience of collaborative working within a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to use Word, Power point, email, excel and electronic clinical record keeping.
Leadership experience

Desirable

Knowledge and understanding of the physical, cognitive and emotional in child development.
Knowledge of the importance and theory of attachment in pregnancy and early childhood.

Other requirements:

Driving license and access to vehicle for work purposes.
About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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