Corporate

Why Parenting Support?

In recent years there has been an increasing recognition that stresses outside of the workplace impact on employees’ performance at work. This has prompted top organisations to provide supportive counselling packages through employee assistance programmes. Unfortunately, this counselling may fail to address a key source of personal stress: family & parenting concerns. Two thirds of 800 employee assistance clients in one study reported having considerable or ‘extreme’ family difficulties and felt they needed services for these difficulties.

Generic counselling services will rarely directly target the child behavioural difficulties which can drain parent employees’ energy and cause them anxiety, tiredness and tension. This is concerning for organisations; demands associated with parenting have been found to be a key source of negative family “spill over” in the workplace, causing distractibility, poor concentration, lower productivity and less job commitment.

How Can PSS Support Our Organisation?

PSS strives to lessen the impact of family stresses on workplace performance through practical, professional parent employee support options which focus directly on bringing about positive changes in family life. All corporate services are provided by a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who works exclusively with parents and children.

• In-house Practical Parenting Skills Workshops. Parenting workshops are an excellent way to show you support and value your parent employees. Workshops will be carefully tailored to your organisations’ specific needs and you can select either ‘one-off’ parenting workshops on discrete topics (eg tantrum taming or sleep support) or a skill-based course of linked workshops. Lunch time sessions can be arranged.

• Sensitive Individual Parenting Support. Practical, professional support is available for employees for whom family or parenting concerns are impacting on their job role. Support options include sensitive face-to-face support or convenient remote assistance via telephone and email.
  
  All support is provided by a Chartered Clinical Psychologist. A brief, solution-focused approach is used with the aim of empowering parents with the confidence, understanding and practical strategies to strengthen the relationship with their child & resolve family tensions.
  

An organisation who chooses to support their parent employees through selecting PSS’s services stand apart from other organisations as a truly supportive and ‘family-friendly’ company.

What Are The Benefits of Parenting Support?

• Workplace parenting support has been found to significantly lower employees’ levels of stress in the work place and improve job confidence.
• A perception of a supportive family-work culture is related to higher levels of job commitment and lower intension to leave the organisation.
• An enhanced family friendly image may be a crucial aid to staff recruitment.
• Additional gains associated with work-life balance initiatives include: improved employee commitment & focus; increased productivity and reduced absenteeism.

Fees

Fees for workshops are dependent on audience size and workshop duration. Please enquire to discuss your organisation’s requirements.

Face-to-face parenting support sessions for employees are charged at £100 per hour. Email and telephone rates depend on support package selected.

Schools

As all teachers are aware, home life and school life are intrinsically inter-related. A child’s experiences at home will be reflected in their behaviour at school. Supporting both primary and secondary schools in Bristol and the surrounding area, PSS provides a professional and efficient package of parenting support options.

• Practical parenting workshops. Workshops for parents support your school’s pastoral care and parent-friendly image. Parent evening workshops can help to normalise common parenting concerns and equip parents with strategies for enhancing their relationship with their child. Topics for pastoral workshops can be flexibly agreed with you and will be tailored to a particular year group’s developmental stage.
  

"Minimising Exam Stress to Maximise Exam Success". 

Unique new workshop designed to equip pupils with a range of practical strategies, grounded in evidence-based psychological techniques, which will help them to deal calmly and with confidence with the approaching exam period. The style of the workshop is friendly and informal with plenty of interactive exercises and a supportive, positive approach.

• Individual support for parents. PSS specialises in helping parents to better understand their child’s difficulties and equipping them with step-by-step strategies to improve family life. Individual support for parents can be combined with liaison with the school to ensure a consistent and holistic approach.
  
  
• In-school pupil counselling. Brief, solution-focused therapeutic support can address issues such as low self-esteem, anxiety, panic and depression. Links to PSS, run by a highly-trained, professional and sensitive Chartered Clinical Psychologist, conveys to parents that you take very seriously the emotionally and psychological well-being of your pupils.

Fees

Fees for workshops are dependent on audience size and workshop duration. Please enquire to discuss your school’s requirements. Consultancy and pupil counselling is charged at £100 per hour.