Acorn Activities is committed to Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation's vision as a place based funder to make Letchworth a ‘Great place to grow up' designing informal play sessions that focus on key themes or needs identified by families through co-design.
Acorn's delivery model responds to the needs of children and their parents, providing early and effective support which enables families to develop resilience and independence, and enables children and young people to achieve their full potential.
As the Acorn's Project Worker you will be working proactively alongside the Community Lead within the community using an evidence based approach to enable parents, carers and wider family members of children aged 0-5 years old to be at the centre of their child's learning. The initial task will be to identify and engage with families with young children, whilst getting to know local partners and how they interact with the families.
This post requires:
1. A relevant qualification at Level 3 or working towards
2. A good knowledge and understanding of the EYFS, and child development, particularly with regard to speech and language and planning activities with this as a focus
3. Good organisational skills
4. Experience of, and confidence in using own initiative
5. An excellent understanding of child protection and safeguarding
6. Excellent communication skills and knowledge of support services for amilies in the local area
7. Experience with the 0-5 yr age group
This post is part time (11 hrs per week all year round)
Afterschool and school holiday working hours will be essential to this role.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
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.
8. 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.
9. 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
10. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
11. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
12. Service related sick pay from day 1
13. 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
14. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
15. Cycle2work scheme
16. Interest free season ticket loans
17. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
18. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
19. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
20. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
21. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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