Are you looking for a new challenge?
Would you like to join our team of Intervention Workers offering bespoke support to families in RCT?
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as an Intervention Worker within the Resilient Families Service, working across RCT, to support children, young people and their families.
What is the Resilient Families Service?
The Resilient Families Team is part of the Resilient Families Service providing an early intervention and prevention service for families with children/young people aged 0-25yrs across Rhondda Cynon Taff. The service increases the resilience levels of the children, young people and their families through working alongside other partner agencies to ensure intervention plans are effectively delivered, delivering direct support and advocating for the children, young people and their families.
What will the job involve?
As an Intervention Worker you will provide advice, guidance and support through direct work with children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. You will do this by:
1. Engaging and establishing positive relationships with children, young people and their families
2. Providing direct support to the children, young people and their families to enable positive change
3. Working in partnership with Social Services, Education, Health and community agencies to develop, deliver and review family plans
4. Dealing sensitively and effectively with child protection concerns.
This is a part-time role of 22.2 hours. The service operates Monday to Friday, and your working days will be discussed and agreed at offer stage. We are open to discussions about these hours being worked over 3 or 4 days. You will be responsible for managing your own diary.
What are we looking for?
5. Experience of working with children, young people and their families
6. Experience of partnership working with a range of voluntary and statutory agencies
7. Ability to deal sensitively and effectively with child protection concerns
8. Ability to communicate effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
9. Ability to coordinate support plans for children, young people and their families.
Additional Information:
Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfill the requirements of our Intervention Worker job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc.
Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to continued funding and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement.
Need more information?
If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Laura Davies (Team Manager) on 073850 86 081.
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
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, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
10. 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.
11. 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
12. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
13. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
14. Service related sick pay from day 1
15. 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
16. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
17. Cycle2work scheme
18. Interest free season ticket loans
19. 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. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
21. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
22. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
23. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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