Family hubs serve as a localised approach to coordinating the planning and delivery of family services. They integrate various services to enhance accessibility, strengthen connections between families, professionals, and service providers, and prioritise relationships in family support. These hubs provide assistance to families from conception up to the age of two, and support those with children of all ages, specifically from 0-19, or up to 25 for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), featuring a robust Start for Life initiative at their core.
Sandwell Family Hubs:
Barnardo's is honoured to participate in delivering Sandwell's Family Hubs across the Borough. The service offers a variety of high-quality services tailored to meet the needs of the families, designed specifically for the six town areas of the Borough, which are grouped into three clusters:
Cluster A: Oldbury, Smethwick
Cluster B: Tipton, Rowley Regis
Cluster C: Wednesbury and West Bromwich
We are committed to providing a comprehensive service for communities and residents, aimed at enhancing access, minimising engagement barriers, and fostering resilient communities.
As a Start for Life Practitioner you will play a crucial role in developing relationships with families as they transition through the different stages of parenthood, covering the period from newborn to age 2, in alignment with Sandwell's Start for Life initiative (for this position, "parents" refers to parents, caregivers, co-parents, and guardians).
Objectives/Key Activities:
* Collaborate within the Health, Well-being, and Engagement team to deliver a wide array of services aimed at enhancing the health and well-being of parents, caregivers, children, and families. This includes various activities designed to:
* Support families as part of the Pregnancy Pathway.
* Provide Early Help to families with children from birth to age 2, ensuring inclusion of fathers and co-parents.
* Serve as a Key Worker, acting as a point of contact for families.
* Assist with Perinatal Mental Health and Parent Infant Relationship, connecting with other perinatal mental health support networks and receiving training to implement interventions.
The shortlisting criteria:
* Minimum of Level 3 qualification or equivalent in relevant field.
* Experience of working with and supporting babies/children/young people and their families to achieve positive outcomes.
* Secure knowledge and confidence to recognise and respond appropriately on Safeguarding concerns.
* Good communication skills and ability to form strong relationships and partnership links.
* Ability to collate and analyse information to produce high quality assessments, action plans, and reports.
* Deliver programmes on a one to one and group delivery.
* Efficient at managing own workload and prioritising tasks.
* Driven and flexible in delivering a high service to families.
For any queries or additional information, please feel free to contact Sophia Perkins or Samina Saudagar.
Pay & Reward Framework
We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work, and creativity of our people.
For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive, and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive, and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band - this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. 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. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
* 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.
* Interest free season ticket loans.
* 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.
T&C's apply based on contract.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity, and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
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