Clarecare: Home Visiting Co-ordinator - Preparing for Life Programme
Home Visiting Co-ordinator - Preparing for Life Programme - 3 Years Contract
Location: On site / Co. Clare, Ireland
job type: Fixed Term / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Voluntary/Charity | General
Salary: Competitive Salary
This Vacancy is now a 3 Years Full-Time, Fixed Term Contract of Employment (Subject to funding with possibility of extension).
Clarecare is a professional accredited social enterprise with charitable status, providing a range of person-centred services for over 55 years to individuals and families in Co. Clare. Current services include Family Support, Older Person Services and Bushypark Residential Addiction Treatment Centre. Clarecare’s headquarters are based in Ennis with local offices in Bushypark, Shannon, Kilrush, Killaloe and Ennistymon.
Further information is available on www.clarecare.ie www.bushypark.ie
Our Vision: is to be the trusted quality care provider within our communities by supporting individuals and families to reach their full potential.
Our Mission: is to provide person-centred services to individuals and families within our communities.
Our Core Values: • Collaborate • Accountability • Respect • Empathy • Trust
Clarecare’s Family Support Service
Clarecare Community Based Family Support Service is a service funded by Tusla and is part of a broad range of support services provided by Clarecare in County Clare. The Family Support Service offers individual and group support for parents, and individual support for children and adolescents. Working from a relationship-based practice approach, our professional family support staff aim to enhance parenting, family relationships and communication; and improve resilience, safety and wellbeing in all aspects of a child’s life.
Overview of Preparing for Life Programme:
Preparing For Life (PFL ) is a home visiting programme designed to support expectant parents and their children up to school age. It aims to involve parents, caregivers and significant others and works to improve families lives by supporting parents / caregivers to use proven approaches to help their family achieve their full potential. The programme specifically sets out to improve levels of school readiness and enhance child development. The programme is now funded by Tusla Child and Family Agency in 12 disadvantaged areas and is extending to the Kilrush area in 2025. Further information on the programme is available at https://www.preparingforlife.ie/
Role Purpose:
To develop, implement and manage the Preparing For Life Programme in Kilrush. The Co-ordinator will ensure the delivery of a clearly outlined, manualised programme with the expectation of delivering the following outcomes for the target children, their parents and families.
- Year on year improvements in children’s physical, psychological and emotional health and in their educational, speech and motor skills.
- Year on year improvements in parents’ psychological health, aspirations for the child and the parenting skills.
- Improved school readiness
- Improvement in parenting and enjoyment of parenting