Birmingham Forward Steps is a citywide service delivered collaboratively by Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust working alongside Barnardo's and other voluntary organisations, operated across 10 districts for children and their parents/ carers from shortly before birth up to the age of five. The service is designed to provide all families of pre-school children with accessible, community-based services in their own homes, GP surgeries, children's centres/family hubs and a number of other community venues with extra help available to those that need it.
Barnardo's is directly managing 4 of those districts and we are seeking to recruit an as and when Early Years Outreach Worker for our Frankley Plus Children's Centre/Family Hub.
The role is advertised as and an as and when worker. This means that you you will work as and when needed as directed by the organisation and service demands.
As an Early Years and Outreach Worker, your duties will include:
1. Providing and promoting Stay & Play sessions for families that promote child development.
2. Providing and promoting positive play within the Early Years Foundation Stages for children, and support parents/carers in how they play with their children to encourage good child development.
3. Delivering and promoting key public health messages in group work.
4. Providing crèche facilities for under 5s while their parents/carers participate in parent focused activities/programmes.
5. Undertaking follow up visits to families who are seen to have not engaged with the service at the Health Visitor mandatory visits.
6. Supporting the delivery of baby activities to meet the health and development needs of children and families who attend.
7. Collecting and helping to collate evidence that demonstrates outcomes for children.
8. Ensuring suitability, safety and cleanliness of toys and other equipment, replenishing the supply of toys as required within the constraints of the budget.
9. Supporting parents who have children under 5 with SEND needs ensuring inclusive practice and signposting to additional specialist support as required.
10. Making effective links to family support ensuring all relevant information is shared, as appropriate, in relation to the children and parents.
This role will require you to travel independently across the district therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.
At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Job Addendum document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Please note, we do not accept CVs.
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.
11. 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.
12. 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
13. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
14. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
15. Service related sick pay from day 1
16. 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
17. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
18. Cycle2work scheme
19. Interest free season ticket loans
20. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
21. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
22. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
23. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
24. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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