Family Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Ilford, United Kingdom Barnardos Full time

Are you looking for an exciting and new challenge? Are you passionate about supporting children and families? If so, look no further  We are seeking a full time Peripatetic Family Support Worker to work across our Family Hubs within Sandwell. This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a passionate and committed team.

The Family Support team take an active lead to working with partnerorganisations ,  local communities, and residents to achieve best outcomes for the families within that area .  You will be take an active lead to working with partner organisations, local communities and residents to achieve best outcomes for families.

Working pattern:

Monday to Friday with flexibility required for occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.

Some key activities/objectives include:

Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes. To strengthen families in a trauma informed way; promote resilience and self-care to prevent children and young people requiring more specialist and intensive support through high quality and impactful direct work. To support families to access universal services as appropriate. To offer a range of other evidence-based interventions to support their work with families. Complete and upload all relevant forms (risk assessments, Consent, GDPR, CC registration form). Work with the wider teams within the Family Hub Offer to meet the needs of the service across the borough. Working in collaboration with agencies to strengthen the exit strategy to ensure sustainable change. To capture the voice and experience of children and young people and utilise this to inform and develop service delivery.

Person Specification/shortlisting criteria:

Must have access to own vehicle due to the nature of the role. Minimum NVQ level 3 or equivalent qualification in relevant field Efficient at managing workload and prioritising tasks/ability to multi-task Good communication skills and ability to form strong partnership links. Driven, passionate and flexible in offering families a high-quality service. Secure knowledge and confidence to recognise and response to safeguarding concerns and issues. Ability to collate and analyse information to produce high quality assessments, action plans and reports.

When completing your application please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience you have in relation to the Additional Information sheet, Person Specification & Job Description.

More about the Service – Sandwell Family Hubs

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. The Family Support Workers hold a caseload and meet with families on a regular basis providing a package of needs led intervention, utilising the Outcome Star. Our aim is to empower families with new knowledge and skills, while also building resilience and providing essential emotional and practical support.

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

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31.03.2025 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31.03.2025

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 . 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 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. 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 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

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