Job Vacancies Information Pack - PINS Project Facilitator - July 2025

Wiltshire Parent Carer Council CIC (WPCC) Job Vacancies Information Pack

PINS Project Facilitator June 2025

Contents About the WPCC

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About PINS

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Project Facilitator Role

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Other Information

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Salary and Support

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Person Specification

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How to Apply

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About the Wiltshire Parent Carer Council CIC (WPCC) The Wiltshire Parent Carer Council CIC (WPCC) is an independent organisation which is managed and run by parent carers*, for parent carers, seeking to enable the voice and experiences of parent carers to positively influence the services that their children and families use. The WPCC is Wiltshire’s recognised parent carer forum.

Representing over 6,000 parent carers of children and young people in Wiltshire with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND), the WPCC provides a specialist consultation and participation service which enables parent carers to have a voice about the services and support their children and families use. This service offers real opportunities to influence and shape provision across the local area, and work in partnership with the people who commission and deliver services in Wiltshire.

The WPCC also provides its specialist information and signposting service called SENDIS, to support parent carers of children and young people with SEND, and those working with them. WPCC’s SENDIS service is a ‘one-stop shop’ that provides a wealth of specialist information as well as signposting to specialist services which support families raising a child or young person with SEND. This service is enhanced by our Outreach Service and Telephone Triage Team. * The WPCC uses the term parent carer to describe anyone over the age of 18 with parental responsibility for a child or young person with SEND; this does not have to be a parent and could include foster parents, adoptive parents, special guardians, grandparents etc.

Improving local services for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities

There’s nothing that can’t be done if we raise our voice as one

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What is PINS? PINS stands for Partnership for Inclusion of Neurodiversity in Schools. This is a is a programme that is being funded by the Shared Outcomes Fund, and delivered between the Department for Education (DfE), NHS England (NHSE) and the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

The focus of the programme in general is about supporting neurodivergent pupils, who represent a fast-growing group among the children most likely to benefit from a more inclusive mainstream environment.

This is the second year of the PINS project. This year, the PINS project will cover 30 primary schools across Wiltshire, Swindon and B&NES and we are looking to work with 12 schools in Wiltshire.

There are two elements to the project; an offer of support for parent carers in the 12 identified schools and a training support offer for staff in these schools. These offers run separately and are delivered by different organisations. The WPCC will play a key role in the delivery of the PINS project by supporting and strengthening partnerships between parents and schools. HCRG Care Group is the delivery partner responsible for coordinating the training offer for school staff.

Additionally this year, there is a requirement of an Embedding Offer to schools who participated in the project last year.

The aim of the project is to bring health & education specialists, and expert parent carers into mainstream primary settings to: •

help shape whole school SEND provision

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provide early interventions at a school level

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upskill school staff

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support and strengthen partnerships between schools and parent carers

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support and strengthen partnerships between parent carer forums and Integrated Care Boards (ICBs)

The aim is that this project will leave a sustainable impact, building a legacy of closer collaboration between schools, parent carers, education and health and help to shift the focus of specialist input to how a supportive learning environment and wellequipped school can improve the outcomes for neurodivergent children.

This phase of the project will end on 31st March 2026.

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What will the WPCC PINS Project Lead do?

PINS remains an evolving project. The WPCC will expect the Project Facilitators to flex and evolve with the programme as not everything is fully formalised. WPCC PINS Project Facilitators will be supported by, and report to, the WPCC’s Neurodiversity Strategic Lead, who is experienced in leading the PINS project.

WPCC PINS Project Facilitators will be expected to: • • • •

Represent the WPCC professionally in all schools assigned to them Be a team player, working positively and constructively as a member of a team Report to and liaise with the WPCC Neurodiversity Strategic Lead Being a WPCC PINS Project Facilitator will include:  Taking responsibility for the WPCC element of the project  Liaising with schools assigned to them within the project  Meeting with school leaders of their assigned schools within the project  Coordinating delivery of relevant/appropriate parent carer support to assigned schools within the project  Take a lead in building strong collaboration between parent carer groups and assigned schools  Facilitate a termly meeting of the parent carer group in each school (for opportunities for peer support and information sharing) and meetings between representatives of that group and the school’s leadership team

In terms of the role the WPCC will play in the Embedding offer this year, our PINS Project Facilitators will be required to provide light-touch support to continue the embedding of partnerships between parents and their schools. This Embedding support will be carried out in addition to working with the 12 new schools in the project this year.

Training Offer for School Staff A training offer for school staff, referred to as the Menu of Support, will be coordinated by colleagues from HCRG Care Group. This training offer will run in parallel to the offer delivered by the WPCC. There will be a requirement for WPCC PINS Project Facilitators to liaise with HCRG Care Group colleagues and representatives from other services responsible for facilitating training for staff at pints during the project; this will always be supported by the WPCC Neurodiversity Strategic Lead.

The support given through the project should focus on a whole school approach. The funding cannot be used to commission direct support for individual children or groups of children. Instead, delivery of the support may include training for all school staff, smaller group or 1:1 sessions with relevant professionals tailored to develop capacity in the school setting, considering the local resources available.

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Why are you Advertising this Vacancy?

The WPCC is advertising this vacancy to ensure capacity for delivering the parent carer forum element of this project in Wiltshire. The WPCC has agreed one-off funding to enable us to recruit to this role. This pack has been designed to give as much information about this vacancy as possible.

Where the WPCC is Based The WPCC represents and supports parent carers across the whole of Wiltshire, excluding Swindon.

The WPCC office is based in central Trowbridge, near to the Odeon cinema leisure complex.

Other Information Closing date for all applications is 10am on Monday 14th July 2025.

Interviews for successful shortlisted candidates will take place on either Friday 5th September or Tuesday 9th September 2025 at the WPCC office. It is likely that successful candidates will be called to attend for an interview within a 10am to 2pm window on one of these dates.

Given the short timeframe of this project, we need to be mobilised and ready to begin delivering as soon as possible; it is therefore hoped that successful candidates will start as soon as possible after the interview, subject to necessary checks. You will need an enhanced DBS; the WPCC will arrange this if you do not have a valid certificate.

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WPCC PINS Project Facilitator Salary and Hours This is a fixed term, part time position, term time only, up to 31st March 2026.

We are looking for someone to work flexibly across the week (not weekends). You will work on average, a total of 5 hours a week, to include an unpaid break of up to one hour per day. Working an average 5 hours a week, you would be assigned three of our 12 identified new schools and four schools for embedding. We can be flexible about how hours are worked and this can be discussed at interview.

A salary of £14.23 an hour, before any National Insurance and Tax deduction (which includes a holiday allowance). Your salary will be paid monthly and you will be required to complete and submit a monthly timesheet.

As an employee on a term time contract of employment, you will not work during the school holidays. All annual leave is therefore to be taken school holidays.

If you feel you have capacity to work more than an average of 5 hours a week, we may consider more substantive rolls i.e. approximately 10 hours a week, but this would require working with a larger number of schools within the project.

Support in your Role You will report to the WPCC’s Neurodiversity Strategic Lead, who will provide ongoing support and supervision. We can provide a laptop if needed, and you will be given a WPCC email account. You will be entitled to claim reasonable mileage expenses when visiting settings, payable at 0.45p/mile.

You will need to be a car driver/owner and will need to arrange appropriate business-use car insurance.

You will be largely community based and will be able to work from home when not working within the community. You are welcome to work from the WPCC office but it is not a requirement. The WPCC holds weekly staff meetings at the Trowbridge office which you would be welcome to attend.

Appointment to this post is subject to background checks.

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About You •

you will need to possess excellent people skills

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you must have experience of neurodiversity, preferable lived experience as a parent carer

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you will have a professional manner and be able to communicate with a range of audiences appropriately

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you will have basic ICT skills

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you are reliable, punctual, friendly and demonstrate a positive professional attitude

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you take pride in your own work and that of your colleagues

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you are extremely meticulous in attention to detail and accuracy

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you must be literate

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you work well as part of team and you are able to show initiative

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you manage your own workload without direction or close supervision

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you are trustworthy, honest and show integrity

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you will need to be a team player, able to fit into a small, friendly and supportive team, and be able to work on your own

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you seek to learn from and support your colleagues

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you review your own performance and ask for feedback to learn and improve

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you work safely to maintain the health of both yourself and others

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you understand and respect the need for confidentiality and data protection

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you are flexible, quick to learn and able to adapt to change

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you are skilled in working positively with colleagues and partners, and build effective, positive and rational working relationships

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you acknowledge when you make mistakes and take responsibility for addressing and correcting them

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Ready to Apply?

Thank you for taking the time to read this pack.

Need More Information Before You Apply?

We are offering an online information session on Wednesday 9th July from 10.15am to 11.15am, for anyone wanting to understand the PINS project a little more and to answer questions. If you want to come along to this session before you apply, please either telephone us on 01225 764647 (option 1) or email reception@wiltspcc.co.uk and we will give you a joining link.

Alternatively, if after having read the information in this pack, you have any further queries about this role and would like to talk to someone before deciding whether you would like to apply, please contact the WPCC’s Strategic Director, Stuart Hall on 01225 764647 (option 1) or email: director@wiltspcc.co.uk.

If you would like to be considered for the position advertised, please proceed by completing our online application form: https://form.jotform.com/Stuartwork/ WPCC-PINS-July2025.

Please note, CVs or covering letters will not be considered

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