Job Description

Flying Start Family Support Worker Caban Bach Barnardo`s.

Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support families in our Caban Bach Family Support Service?

We are looking to recruit a Family Support Worker at the Caban Bach Service, Barnardo\'s Cymru North Wales Locality predominantly working in Dolgellau, Gwynedd.

What is the Caban Bach Family Support Service?

Caban Bach Family Support Service is a comprehensive Family Support Team, commissioned by Flying Start and Families First in Gwynedd. We provide evidenced based family support to parents, families with children and young people - within the home, school, community, and Caban Bach Barnardo`s.

What does the Job Role involve?

The Flying Start Family Support Worker provides advice, support and services to children, young people, and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. You will do this by:

• Working with families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
• Working in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
• Working co-operatively with children\'s services, health agencies and other community-based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
• Contribute to Service development.
• Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

What are we looking for?

You will have: (Essential Criteria)

• The ability to communicate in Welsh and English (due to meeting the requirements of the Welsh Language Measure and ensuring we meet the linguistic needs within Gwynedd it is essential that you\'re able to provide a bilingual service).
• Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e.g. disadvantage, poverty, disability).
• Awareness of children\'s need to feel safe.
• Some experience of work with families but this does not have to have been gained in a formal employment setting.
• Able to listen to and communicate effectively with children and families
• Able to work as part of a team.
• Able to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of writing and IT skills.
• Able to apply Barnardo\'s safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Additional Information:

Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our Family Support Worker (PW2) role , as outlined above and in the /Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc.

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.

Need more information?

If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Sarah Jones

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31.03.24 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement.

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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo\'s as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

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 progression 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.

• 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.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• 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
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo\'s stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo\'s Learning and Development offer

*T&C\'s apply based on contract

About Barnardo\'s

At Barnardo\'s we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

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