Voice and Influence Lead

This is an exciting opportunity to join Barnardo's as we embark on a new three-year partnership with a leading pharmaceutical company to deliver their UK Young Health Programme.
The Problem The Partnership Will Help To Solve
Too many young people are growing up in
poverty
and
food insecurity
; missing out on a healthy childhood. The lack of access to a healthy diet is increasing their risk of
non- communicable diseases
, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes, and reducing their chance of thriving as adults.

The Partnership Will

• Support young people in poverty with immediate access to healthy food and cooking equipment – through establishing a 'Healthy Living Fund'.

• Empower young people who have experience of poverty to build a 'Healthy Living Toolkit' and distribute the toolkit to young people and families across the UK.

• The Toolkit could include recipes for nutritional meals, suggestions for physical activity, as well as practical guidance and peer to peer encouragement to make healthy choices.

This Role Will
Deliver the youth voice and engagement strand of the partnership (80% of role / 0.8 FTE)

• Identify, build and support a dedicated group of young people ("Young Health Champions" – name TBC) with lived experience of poverty living in London to work with professionals at Barnardo's and our pharmaceutical partner.
• Facilitate an educational programme of workshops and activities for the Young Health Champions focussed on the importance of good nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
• Work with our Young Health Champions to reflect on their lived experience and apply their learning through the educational programme to co-produce a 'Healthy Living Toolkit'
• Alongside Barnardo's policy colleagues, shape a programme of youth-led influencing and advocacy for the Young Health Champions to share their work, key messages with decision and policy-makers, and the wider public.

Support excellent and inclusive voice and influence practice within Barnardo's health services across the UK (20% of role / 0.2 FTE)

• Provide proactive and responsive information, advice, guidance and support to children's (health) services across Barnardo's to embed excellent and inclusive voice and influence practice.
• As needed, facilitate group work with young people to elicit their voice and experience to feed into service and strategic decision-making, and our external influencing work.
• Supporting the ongoing engagement of young people in strategic pieces of work within our health workstreams.

We're Looking For Someone Who Brings

• At least five years' experience in a role working directly with children and/or young people in a health, social care, education or youth work setting.
• Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating strategic voice and influence activities with young people – including through remote or virtual working.
• Experience of working in the health context – this could be working within a public sector health body (e.g. the NHS) or a VCSE organisation delivering health work.
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders at different levels, across different organisations/partners, and through a matrix-reporting arrangement.
• Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate projects, collaboratively and effectively.
• Excellent collaboration, networking and partnership-working skills.

Please note, these will also form our initial shortlisting criteria.
Specific Circumstances Of This Role
For this role, the successful candidate will need to be based in, or within daily commuting distance, to central London - as it will involve in-person evening and weekend working with young people in central London (Zone 1) and due to budget constraints, in terms of travel and overnight accommodation.
This role will be offered as a hybrid role and will be 'linked' to our Barnardo's office in central London (very near Euston).
Do also note, this role will be line managed remotely - the line manager for the role lives outside of London.
Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.
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 at 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.