Join our team at Worcestershire Family Hubs – Wyre Forest
Barnardo's invites you to become a vital part of our dynamic team providing impactful services to children and families in the Wyre Forest within our Family Hubs and communities. We aim to support communities and families to become resilient by making services accessible and reducing barriers to engagement. The Family Hub locations are:
1. Brookside Family Hub – Kidderminster
2. Half Crown Wood Family Hub – Stourport-on-Severn
**Due to the nature of our work this role is service based, working from our Family Hubs and outreach locations across the Wyre Forest. **
An opportunity has arisen to increase service delivery across the district, increasing both Hub and community-based activity.
We are advertising for a part time 18.5 hours per week part time Project Worker 1. You must have the flexibility to work some evening and weekend sessions. A valid driving license with access to own transport for the purposes of work is essential to the role.
As a Family Hub Practitioner with parenting, health and wellbeing responsibilities, you will play a crucial role in fostering warm, supportive relationships with communities and individual families. You will promote the support available within Family Hubs through attending events and activities, facilitating targeted interventions in response to emerging needs and identified trends. Work with a variety of professionals and agencies to support and encourage engagement of vulnerable children and families through a variety of means including face to face, virtual and social media. Ensure that the views of children and families are at the forefront of service design through co-production.
Professional Development
3. Comprehensive Training: we offer robust training programs to equip you with the necessary skills to thrive in your role.
4. Career Growth: opportunities for professional advancement within Barnardo's and the wider Family Hub network.
5. Supportive Environment: join a collaborative team that values inclusivity, diversity and mutual respect.
Engaging work
6. Varied Responsibilities: Engage in a range of activities promoting health and wellbeing, providing support and information and connecting families with services, professionals and agencies.
7. Community impact: Be at the frontline of creating change and building resilience within communities, ensuring every family is supported effectively.
Key responsibilities:
8. Attend and represent Worcestershire Family Hubs – Wyre Forest, delivering targeted interventions across the district in response to emerging needs or specific focuses.
9. Provide support, and guidance to schools, early years settings, and other organisations.
10. Organise and promote community events, workshops, and national campaigns to raise awareness of available support.
11. Drive engagement into locality-based parent carer panels
12. Provide clear guidance and support to families, helping them connect with the right services at the right time.
Additional Benefits
13. Inclusive Culture: Work within a diverse team that prioritises a strength based, trauma informed and relational approach to service delivery.
14. Innovative Projects: Participate in innovative projects and initiatives that drives community engagement and development.
15. Networking Opportunities: Connect with professionals and service providers across the city expanding your professional networks.
Join us at Barnardo's Worcestershire Family Hubs – Wyre Forest and be part of a supportive, forward-thinking organisation dedicated to making a difference. Together, let's build stronger, more resilient communities and crate a brighter future for all families.
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
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.
Barnardo's offer their staff regular supervision and give all colleagues access to at least three learning days a year. Barnardo's University (BU) facilitate a range of opportunities which will be available through B-learning online and the BU prospectus. However, staff can use this time in a way that works for them – for instance to spend a day shadowing another team.
16. Annual Leave entitlement for full-time employees is 26 days per annum, increasing to 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata.
17. Option to purchase up to 5 additional days of annual leave
18. Pension Scheme: Barnardo's offers a 4% or 6% matched contribution to our Group Personal Pension. For those that pay into the pension they will be provided with death in service cover of 4 times annual earnings
19. Access to an Employee Assistance Program
20. Barnardos benefits discounts portal, including discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and day to day spending.
21. A cycle-to-work scheme
22. Childcare vouchers (childcare plus scheme)
23. Health cash plans
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.