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The new service is seeking a Voice and Influence Practitioner to join the team of wellbeing Practitioners who will be supporting the emotional health and wellbeing of children and families in Denbighshire.

The Voice and Influence Practitioner will be in place to support Children and their families have opportunities to have their voices heard and contribute to decision making around the service design and delivery moving forward.

Part Time hours: 18.5 hours in 2024 and 2025, reducing to 14.6 hours in 2027 and 2028

We believe that children and young people, and where appropriate their families, should have opportunities to have their voices heard and be taken seriously in decisions that affect them.

We believe this leads to better decision-making and improved services.

At Barnardo's, voice and influence is the collective term we use to describe the different ways we work with, listen to, record, respond to and act on the voices and lived experiences of children and young people.

This includes consultation, participation and co-production work we undertake.

While this role is within a specific team, service or locality (as specified), it will undertake its responsibilities in line with our UK Voice and Influence Strategic Plan and receive as and when practice advice and support from the UK Voice and Influence Team.

• Job Purpose:
• To support and enable children and young people, and where appropriate their families, to have a voice and influence in decision-making.
• To increase and embed the voice and influence of children and young people, and where appropriate their families, in the delivery and management of the service.

Key Responsibilities:

• For Service Users
• Under guidance and instruction:
• Support, devise and facilitate a range of opportunities for children, young people, and where appropriate their families, to have a voice and influence in decision-making.
• Support children, young people, and where appropriate their families, to form, express and share their views, in their way, on their terms.
• Ensure children, young people, and where appropriate their families, are able to communicate their views to people who can make difference.
• Ensure children, young people, and where appropriate their families, are fed back to, so they can see the difference they have influenced.
• Work cooperatively with children's services, health agencies and other community based services, to provide the effective voice and influence opportunities for children young people, and where appropriate their families.
• Contribute to regional, national and UKwide voice and influence work.
• Contribute to service development.
• To work in an nondiscriminatory and inclusive manner and to ensure that all service users are able to have their voice heard and contribute to service design and delivery.

For Resources

• Be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery.
• Be responsible for case note recording, contributing to report writing and producing and keeping management information.
• For Health and Safety
• To promote, monitor and maintain health safety and security in the working environment.

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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our _People & Culture_ Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role. _
• 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 worklife balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• 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 option

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