Barnardo's North West Fostering Service aims to achieve high quality, stable placements for children and young people by ensuring that foster carers are appropriately recruited, assessed, trained and well supported within the required regulations and national minimum standards. We are looking to recruit a Project Worker with the necessary drive, enthusiasm, ambition and commitment to complement our already well-established team. The successful candidate will need to share and promote our ethos and values and demonstrate a passion for promoting good outcomes for our children and high quality support to our foster carers.
As a Project Worker, you will work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. You will work in partnership with carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children. Part of your role will be to work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the most effective service for children, young people and families. You will apply safeguarding and child protection procedures in all aspects of your role.
Barnardo's North West Fostering provides a variety of fostering provision including short term emergency placements, short and long-term/permanency, Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children & Staying Put Arrangements. This is a home working position with the requirement to travel throughout the North West area. The office base for the Service is in Liverpool. The successful candidate will be required to participate in team meetings & staff development days.
Benefits Workplace Offer: We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations.
* Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
* Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata.
* The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme.
* A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options.
* Service related sick pay from day 1.
* Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
* Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
* Cycle2work scheme.
* Discounts and cashback from high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal.
* 20% discount at Barnardo's stores.
* Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc.
* Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support.
* Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer, Volunteer days.
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