Practice and Safeguarding Coordinator in Nottingham

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our National Support Team as a Practice and Safeguarding Coordinator.

Basic Details

• Location: Home-based, with the ability to travel to Nottingham on a regular basis
• Contract: Permanent / 21 hours per week. This will include some evenings and weekends.
• Salary: £27,000 FTE (£16,200 pro rata)
• Reports to: Head of Relationship Counselling (HoRC)

About Marriage Care

Everyone needs the chance to start their relationship with the best possible foundation and the chance to restore their relationship when they hit bumps in the road. We’ve been supporting couples on their relationship journey for over 75 years. Working across England and Wales our team of 400 trained and passionate volunteers provide marriage preparation and relationship counselling at a low cost through our 50 centres and 100 counselling locations. We are the second largest relationship counselling provider and the largest single provider of marriage preparation in the UK. Healthy relationships make for better lives, more stable families and a stronger society. Broken relationships cause pain and hurt and can lead to loneliness, depression, homelessness, debt and reduced life chances for children. Couples and families often feel isolated, under pressure and struggle to be open about the challenges they face and seek the support they need. We believe this has to change so our work is helping give couples the best possible start to their relationship, the opportunity to nurture their relationship and to restore and repair their relationship when things get tough. Together we can achieve a vision of a society in which adults can form and sustain healthy marriages and committed relationships.

Your Role

As our Practice and Safeguarding Coordinator you will support the HoRC in the delivery of a safe, professional, sustainable, and accessible relationship counselling service, ensuring an effective service and high-quality experience for clients and volunteers. This is very much a hands-on role within a supportive community of experienced practitioners.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Support the development and management of a safe, professional, and accessible relationship counselling service through the retention and management of volunteer counsellors and volunteer Supervisors – championing our ethos and the development of recognised standards.
• Be the Safeguarding Lead when deputising for the HoRC and/or the CEO.
• Develop and administer systems to support the tracking of professional standards including the data collection, evaluation and reporting of service outcomes and outputs, ensuring reports and related counselling resources are effectively curated to facilitate continuous professional development.
• Support the development and implementation of a robust supervisory scheme for all practitioners, including the identification, allocation and CPD of supervisors, responsibility for all the administration of the supervision reporting process, and support the Counselling and Supervision Training Coordinator in the development of an outline CPD programme informed by the supervision reporting process.
• Support the review, drafting, dissemination and implementation of safeguarding, and other clinical and administrative policies and procedures.

What We Offer

• 28 days annual leave (pro rata) – 3 of these days are to be taken over the Christmas and new year period when the office is closed.
• Home working with regular in-person connection and training days in the office, on a monthly basis.
• Working within a committed, supportive team and volunteer community.

How to Apply

Please read through the Role Description and Person Specification and send your CV and a supporting statement (no more than two pages) explaining how you meet the person specification to Michelle Hayes: Michelle@marriagecare.org.uk For informal enquiries, contact: Michelle@marriagecare.org.uk The deadline for applications is Monday 9th February 9am.