Barnardo's are commissioned to deliver the services in the Children and Family Centres in Warwickshire in partnership with a wide variety of agencies offering activities to children, young people and parents/carers. Warwickshire Children and Family Centres are recruiting for as and when Early Years and Children's Practitioners to deliver a range of services including groups activities, 1:1 support and courses. Our work is all about making the biggest impact during the journey of a child's life. The service aims to offer sessions during the day, after school and on weekends.
The Children and Families Centres would like to add to their teams across Warwick District, Stratford District and Rugby borough, primarily to provide activities for 5 years + after school, at weekends and during school holidays. There may also be an opportunity, within these roles, for an experienced practitioner to support the service to provide Early Years activities and groups to younger children and their families. Experience with either or both cohorts, including running group activities for children and their parents, is essential. Please do state in your application if you have a preference for the type of work you are applying for.
We are delighted to be able to offer these roles within experienced and friendly teams, with a full induction and access to Barnardo's training, This is a great opportunity for an experienced practitioner who enjoys variety, or someone looking to build on their current experience.
This is a busy and varied role where you will be required to work independently or as part of a team to deliver a range of services within the community. You will help to:
1. Offer fun and engaging activities to support children to develop positive social and emotional skills.
2. Build positive relationships with parents/ carers.
3. Hold sometimes difficult/ challenging conversations with parents.
4. Offer advice and support, or signpost and refer parents to the most appropriate service.
5. Support the service to deliver an offer to fulfil our KPIs
An ability to travel across the districts is essential.
Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc. Please refer to the job description, person specification and role addendum when completing your application.
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.
6. 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.
7. 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
8. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
9. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
10. Service related sick pay from day 1
11. 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
12. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
13. Cycle2work scheme
14. Interest free season ticket loans
15. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
16. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
17. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
18. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
19. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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