Additional Needs Practitioner Project Worker 1
Description of Service:
The new service is seeking an additional needs practitioner to join the team. The Additional needs Practitioner will be in place to support Children and their families with Additional needs through organising themed surgeries as well as offer group and one to one support.
The service will work alongside other services within Families First.
Work will take place at a range of locations throughout the locality and will be flexible in order to be able to provide a service during evenings and weekends as needed.
Family Wellbeing Practitioner (Project Worker 1), Barnardo's Cyfle Wellbeing Service – initially based at Cyfle Westbourne Centre, but working across the Denbighshire Locality.
Job Purpose:
To provide specific family support interventions for families with a disabled child living in Denbighshire. Based on a key working model, the aim will be to offer early interventions to families by providing parental support, advice and signposting as well as some direct services to children and young people.
Core Duties and Responsibilities:
1. To provide direct services to parents of disabled children and their families in accordance with the aims of the Service.
2. To work as part of the wider Wellbeing Team establishing a range of provision to support families, including the delivery of training packages.
3. To support parents to build on their strengths and improve their parenting capacity.
4. To work alongside other professionals and agencies to ensure the welfare of the child/children.
Job Activities:
5. To provide support to vulnerable families referred through and meeting the criteria of the Denbighshire Families First criteria.
6. To deliver structured interventions in response to the identified needs of parents, either on a 1:1 or group basis.
7. To manage/facilitate structured programmes such as CYGNET and parent drop-ins; delivering a range of flexible services and activities to enhance parents' ability to parent.
8. To visit children and families in their home environment, in order to support them with strategies learnt within the interventions provided.
9. Undertake initial introductory visits with families, if requested to do so.
10. To liaise with other service providers in order to facilitate access by parents to specialised help.
11. To ensure that the service provision for children takes account of children's individual needs including their ethnic origin, culture, religion and language.
12. To contribute to the monitoring, evaluation and review of the service with service users according to the agreed standards and targets.
13. To promote and support inclusive and anti-discriminatory practice.
14. To work in partnership with parents to empower them and to enable them to participate as fully as they would wish within the service.
15. To undertake record keeping and report writing within the frameworks set by the service.
16. Attend any meetings requested to provide feedback on the progress made of the child or family members,
17. To adhere to Barnardo's and Project policies including Child Protection, Equal Opportunities, Confidentiality, Care and Control and Health & Safety.
18. To receive and contribute to regular supervision including participation in the identification and meeting of own training and development needs.
19. To work closely with the Voice and Influence worker to support families to have their voice heard and to enable their voice to shape the design and delivery of the service.
20. To work co-operatively with other relevant agencies to ensure effective services are provided for children and families.
21. To work within Barnardo's Basis and Values.
22. To undertake such other task relevant to the post.
Specific Essential Requirements unless otherwise stated:
23. Experience of working with disabled children and/or their families
24. Experience of planning and working with parents
25. Experience of partnership working.
26. Experience of facilitating programmes – desirable
27. Experience of supervising volunteers or students – desirable
28. Understanding of children's developmental needs
29. Good communication skills with children and adults.
30. Ability to identify and respond to individual children's physical, emotional and educational needs.
31. Ability to respond appropriately to Child Protection concerns.
32. Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
33. Ability to work as part of a team.
34. Ability to maintain confidentiality.
35. Commitment to partnership with parents.
36. Commitment to anti-discriminatory and inclusive practice.
37. Commitment to learning and development.
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.
Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)
38. 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.
39. 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
40. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
41. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
42. Service related sick pay from day 1
43. 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
44. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
45. Cycle2work scheme
46. Interest free season ticket loans
47. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
48. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
49. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
50. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
51. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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