👶 Start for Life Practitioner
📍 Sandwell (Oldbury, Smethwick, Tipton, Rowley Regis, Wednesbury & West Bromwich)
💼 Barnardo's – Best Start Family Hubs & Healthy Babies
💙 Help Shape the First 1,000 Days of a Child's Life
Barnardo's is a key partner delivering Sandwell's Best Start Family Hubs, supporting families from pregnancy through to a child's second birthday — a critical time for development, health and emotional wellbeing.
We're looking for a passionate Start for Life Practitioner to support babies and families to thrive through high-quality, accessible and community-based services.
🌱 About the Role
You will work directly with parents and carers, delivering universal and targeted support to improve outcomes during pregnancy and early childhood.
You'll act as a trusted point of contact, helping families navigate services while promoting wellbeing, early development and positive relationships.
✨ Key Responsibilities
✅ What We're Looking For
🌟 What You'll Bring
🎁 Why Join Barnardo's?
🔄 Additional Information
📩 Apply Today
If you're passionate about giving every child the best start in life, we'd love to hear from you.
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 FrameworkWe 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.
BenefitsWorkplace 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)
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