Barnardo's has an exciting and enriching opportunity to work as part of a team of Family Partners based in the East Locality within the Children and Families Newcastle offer. We have two full time equivalent, Family Partner posts to recruit into. These roles create opportunities to build relationships with families and work closely with them, on their journey within early help and through the wider Children and Families Community Offer.
Family Partners are their to reach, engage and understand what support families need. Working with families to engage in an assessment to highlight what their specific needs are to then arrange appropriate support to progress towards improving outcomes for babies, children, young people and families.
The post will suit candidates who:
1. Are experienced in reaching, engaging and working successfully with families in local communities. Work is delivered in family homes, community settings and within the Family Hub.
2. Are experienced in integrated, multi-agency working but are able to work on their own initiative and as part of a multi-agency team.
3. Able to demonstrate excellent communication skills.
4. Are experienced in doing both one to one family work as well as delivering group work activity with parents and their babies/children.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). 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
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.
5. 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.
6. 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
7. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
8. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
9. Service related sick pay from day 1
10. 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
11. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
12. Cycle2work scheme
13. Interest free season ticket loans
14. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
15. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
16. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
17. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
18. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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