Project Worker

Health, Well-being and Engagement Worker (19920)

**Sandwell Family Hubs**

We are currently looking for a full time Health, Well-being and Engagement Worker to cover maternity leave until 31st March 2025, with the possibility of this role being extended up to the end of June 2025. This person will work across our Sandwell locality Family Hubs. As part of this team, you will play an active rolein working withhealthpractitioners**,* partner organisations**, *local communitiesand residents to achieve best outcomes for the families within that area. You must be an essential car user for this role.

**About the Service**:
Family hubs are a place-based way of joining up locally in the planning and delivery of family services. They bring services together to improve access, improve the connections between families, professionals, services, and providers, and put relationships at the heart of family support. Family hubs offer support to families from conception to 19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Start for Life offer at their core.

**The service will provide a range of quality services for families, locally designed for the 6 town areas of the Borough, divided into 3 areas**:
Cluster A - Oldbury, Smethwick

Cluster B - Tipton, Rowley Regis

Cluster C - Wednesbury and West Bromwich

**Working pattern**:
Monday to Friday (37 hours) with flexibility required for occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.

**Some key activities/objectives include**:

- To support in the delivery of a broad range of services and courses/programmes designed to improve the health, well-being and engagement of parents to be, parent/carers, children and families.
- Commitment to undertake any training to enable you to plan and deliver a range of courses/programmes/workshops for parents including HENRY, MoodMaster, Antenatal Solihull Approach, Oral Health etc.
- Delivery of sessions to enable improved bonding and attachment between parent/carer and child through sessions such as Baby Massage, Baby Yoga, Baby Clubs etc.
- Introduce parents-to-be, parents/carers to the full range of Family Hub offer and broader family services through increasing service awareness and engagement by reaching out to as many families as possible including those who find it challenging to access.
- Prepared to work in an agile work environment to ensure needs of the service are met.
- Ability to work flexibly to cover boroughwide delivery.
- Deliver activities and opportunities to gain feedback from service users to influence service delivery.
- Support the design, maintenance and promotion of materials and opportunities designed to attract, engage, and build relationships with communities, including through the Virtual Offer, social media, newsletters etc.
- Work with the wider teams within the Family Hubs to meet the needs of the service across the borough.
- Any other duties deemed appropriate within your job role to reflect the needs of the service.

**Person specification/shortlisting criteria**
- Level 3 or equivalent qualification in relevant field
- Ability to work in Multi-disciplinary team.
- Effective Communication Skills with children, young people and families
- Ability/willingness to deliver programmes/sessions to parent/carers, children and young people.
- Experience of effectively managing own workload and meeting targets/deadlines
- Ability and experience of identifying and appropriately acting upon safeguarding concerns.
- Community and engagement experience

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._

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £23,868.00-£29,172.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking

Work days:

- Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 19920