Parent Group Leader: Role description

Thank you to Zest Community in Sheffield for sharing this role description.

EPEC EMPOWERING PARENTS EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES

• Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities (EPEC) is a successful, popular, unique parenting approach.
• EPEC is for local parents, led by local parents.
• EPEC has a well-tested and innovative combination of peer-led methods with professional parenting support and supervision.

Zest is looking for Parents city wide with energy and vision to work alongside our EPEC volunteer co-ordinator and Sheffield City Council Parenting Team.

This role is working with the Zest EPEC Team to:

• Connect with local parents
• Improve the scope and scale of help available to parents and families
• Boost parent access, acceptability and support with parenting strategies giving them their own parenting tool kit
• Build community capacity and resilience, helping families to connect and strengthen support networks.
• Building trusting relationships so that parents feel encouraged, optimistic and well informed about EPEC
• Help parents to develop individual plans and goals for themselves, their children and family

We are looking for people who are:

• Parents/carers or people who have experience of parenting
• Good communicators and are able to listen/ share their own experiences.
• Team players and able to build relationships with a wide range of people.
• Wanting to make a difference to families in your own community
• Benefits of volunteering as an EPEC Parent Group Leader:

We will provide:

• Free training package.
• Supervision and support from Lynn our EPEC volunteer co-ordinator and Sheffield City Council Parenting Team as well as the National EPEC team.
• Payment of travel expenses (on production of receipts) and child care expenses whilst training or delivering groups.
• Reduced rate gym and pool membership equivalent to staff discounted rate (after initial 6-week trial period and for the period you are volunteering).
• Continuing development sessions to exchange skills, reflect on practice, revisit and review course structures and organisation, and co-design new developments

You will gain:

• Learn to lead practical, caring groups for local parents.
• Share tried and tested methods that give children the best start in life.
• Join a group of like-minded parents to make a difference to your local community.
• Opportunities to develop your skills and confidence.
• Gain experience that will help you to fulfil your ambitions
• Opportunity to access further training and employment support
• Opportunities to connect into Zest and a network of Early Years/ Parenting organisations.

Your Commitment:

• Time to the project in delivering groups and attending planning/ supervision.
• Full participation in the training programme including completing weekly journals.
• DBS check and 2 references will be required.

For the full document please download the attached PDF

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• Lincolnshire Community group supporter volunteer
• Lincolnshire Community virtual volunteer group supporter

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