NEW ROLE OPEN FOR OUR CELEBRATING AND INSPIRING CHILDREN WHO DO IT DIFFERENTLY SERVICE
This service is funded by Surrey and Borders NHS Trust and sits within the Mindworks Alliance which provides a variety of support for children, young people, families and professionals across Surrey.
Our Celebrating team run 5-week support groups in all state infant, primary, junior and secondary schools across the county of Surrey. We are in our 5th year of delivering this service.
We have a dedicated service administrator who liaises with the schools, collects the referrals and coordinates our session times with the support from our Team Manager. Our ADHD Practitioners run multiple groups in schools over the week seeing approximately 90 students each week.
We have a wide range of activities and resources on offer creating our bespoke 5 week programme to cover elements of development and coping strategies which can be more challenging for children and young people who are diagnosed with ADHD or show ADHD behaviours.
Essential Skills/Experience
1. A calm and patient personality is essential as we are celebrating the differences our children present with. We celebrate how our children and young people think outside the box and often display passion for a variety of skills or topics. We hold sessions on feelings, coping strategies, friendships, coping with the demands of school work, extending to coping with exams for our older children.
2. Understanding and empathy for those with neurodivergent conditions and how this can impact their wellbeing and self-esteem, this understanding could be gained through your career or within your personal life.
3. Being able to think on your feet and adapt delivery to suit the emerging needs or dynamics within your group.
4. Work well as a team, our sessions are always run with 2 ADHD Practitioners.
5. Decent grasp of IT skills as written recording of our sessions is essential. Laptop and phone provided. Use of MS Packages, training provided for the use of our internal database system is given.
6. Full UK Driving Licence and access to car. Travel across the whole of Surrey to our schools is essential. Mileage claims made from our Leatherhead office. If you live 5 miles from our Leatherhead office and travel 20 miles to a school you will be able to claim for 15 miles.
7. A strong understanding of safeguarding is essential for this role as you need to be able to proactively safeguard yourself, your colleagues and the students within our sessions and follow the school and Barnardo's safeguarding policies as required.
8. Confident communication skills, written and verbal in English.
Desirable Skills/Experience
9. Experience in working with children between the ages of 6-16, in a paid role, volunteering or within your personal life.
10. Experience in running group work with children including planning and delivering sessions in a paid or volunteering role.
11. Professional communication with school staff and other professionals you will interact with whilst running our sessions.
12. Ability to represent Barnardo's as a charity and uphold our reputation.
Each week brings something different, we move to new schools every half term providing a different experience for our team regularly.
If you are keen to make a difference to children and young people, providing them with the self esteem boost they are looking for then we would love to hear from you.
This role is term time only, working 39 weeks per annum in line with Surrey school term dates. The service is open Tuesday to Thursday and the 21 hours will be worked on those days each week. It is essential that you can commit to being on site at any Surrey school for as early as 8am on those days. Travel to and from our office is your calculated working traveltime and travel to schools over this time is non working. For example is you live 5 miles from our Leatherhead office and this takes 10 minutes, one a journey to a school which takes 30 minutes, 20 minutes of this journey is non working time. Mileage claims are also from our office as noted above.
If you have any questions please reach out to Diane Charles our Team Manager
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.
13. 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.
14. 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
15. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
16. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
17. Service related sick pay from day 1
18. 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
19. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
20. Cycle2work scheme
21. Interest free season ticket loans
22. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
23. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
24. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
25. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
26. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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