Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Children and Young People in a Collaborative Partnership between Barnardo's Cymru and Newport City Council? We are looking to recruit an Intervention Worker fixed term for 3 years with a focus around staff supervision and development alongside a smaller case load. This advert is a great opportunity for those workers wanting a more strategic development within their career but have little to no management experience to date.
About the Collaborative Partnership
This is an established partnership with an innovative vision for the delivery of edge of care family support for children and young people living in Newport.
The aim of the service is to:
1. Provide a continuum of family support
2. Provide intensive support for those families on the brink of care or where the plan is for a child's rehabilitation home
3. Work with families focusing on their strengths to build resilience enabling them to make changes to their lives
4. Provide evidence-based interventions based on the family's needs
5. Enable children, young people and families to identify goals and achieve
Job Role
To provide intensive family support to families on the edge of care at risk of becoming Looked after by the Local Authority. This may involve support to children and their families during evenings and weekends. Your initial responsibilities will include:
6. Utilising effective communication skills to engage families, build collaborative relationships and ensure their views are included in the family plan.
7. Gathering, analysing, evaluating and summarising information from children, families and other agencies to undertake a holistic assessment of the families needs.
8. Assisting families to establish goals in an open and participative way.
9. Taking responsibility for and give primary consideration to the needs of children with particular regard to child protection procedures and safeguarding.
10. Empowering and supporting the family in creating a safe environment.
11. Planning and delivering intensive evidence based interventions with children and families to modify harmful patterns of behaviour, in order to reduce risks and achieve positive outcomes for families.
12. Assisting families in identifying strengths and support networks to achieve change.
13. Assisting in the identification of appropriate resources and support for the family and advocate on their behalf when appropriate.
14. Enabling service users to participate in the evaluation and development of the service.
15. Preparing reports as requested including those relating to complex care proceedings and Child Protection Conferences and Children in Care Reviews.
16. Establishing, developing and maintaining productive working relationships, through liaison and joint work with other agencies, organisations, groups and individuals within the team's operational remit.
17. Recording and collating information to contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of the service.
18. Working collaboratively to ensure the seamless transfer of families between intervention phases.
19. Provide effective supervision, support, and guidance to team members, ensuring high standards of performance, professional development, and adherence to organisational policies and procedures.
You must demonstrate in your application that you currently use the skills outlined below, and in the Job Description/Person Specifications, or have used them previously in employment, education, training, volunteering etc.
You will have:
All criteria are essential
20. A qualification is required for this post i.e. Degree in Social Work, Diploma or other relevant professional qualification i.e. counselling, teaching, youth work
21. Experience of working with children, young people and their families preferably in a family support setting
22. Experience of using solution focused, strength based approaches with children, young people and their families
23. Experience of using therapeutic interventions such as Cognitive behavioural therapy, Parent, Childcare and Employment and Dialectical behaviour therapy
24. Experience of working intensively with young people who are in crisis and need of immediate intervention and those reluctant to engage with professionals
25. Knowledge of child development and attachment
26. Knowledge of Safeguarding and procedure
27. Ability to prioritise, organise, self-motivate and work on own initiative
28. Ability to work flexibly including some evenings and weekends
29. Ability to travel throughout Newport in order to meet the requirements of the post
Additional Information:
For further information, please contact Leah Ward, Partnership Manager –
Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements
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.
30. 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.
31. 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
32. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
33. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
34. Service related sick pay from day 1
35. 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
36. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
37. Cycle2work scheme
38. Interest free season ticket loans
39. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
40. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
41. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
42. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
43. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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