Role Overview
Barnardo's and Compass are working in partnership to deliver the Young Health Hub (Tower Hamlets), a healthy child programme commissioned by the Public Health team in Tower Hamlets council. ECHO is part of this contract and involves listening to children, young people and their families to ensure their voices are heard and influence meaningful change.
The role will include interactions with children, young people and families, and safeguarding them is at the core of all we do. The successful applicant will be responsible and accountable, applying Barnardo's policies and procedures across all areas of the role.
Important Information
We are keen to support local Tower Hamlets residents into paid employment and encourage applications from the local community.
The role is part‑time – 18 hours – and working patterns can be negotiated (within usual business hours Monday to Friday, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm). Flexibility to attend local volunteering fairs or training sessions is required.
The team is community‑based, so the ability to travel across the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, and to other locations for training or work, is essential. The post holder may occasionally be required to work independently within office or community settings.
Pre‑employment checks will be required for the role.
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.
Qualifications
* Interest in working with the local community
* Good attention to detail
* Time-management and ability to meet deadlines
* Communication and relational skills
* Organisational skills
* Experience using IT packages such as Outlook, Word, Excel
* Excellent team spirit and relationship building
* A collaborative nature
Benefits
Workplace Offer: What it means for you
Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or a 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 believes in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work‑life balance; therefore we are open to offering flexible working arrangements.
* Annual leave entitlement for full‑time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days after 3 years, 29 days after 5 years and 30 days after 7 years of service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro‑rata.
* The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave 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. Salary sacrifice can be used to achieve tax and NI savings on your own contribution.
* Death‑in‑service cover of 4× annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
* Cycle2work scheme.
* Interest‑free season ticket loans.
* Discounts and cashback from a range of high‑street shops, including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and 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 a round‑the‑clock employee assistance programme for advice and support.
* Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer.
*T&C's apply based on contract.
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 reflect 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 under‑represented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
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