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Background and Service Specifics

Sandwell Family Hubs: Black Country Locality

Barnardo's is proud to lead the delivery of Sandwell Best Start Family Hubs and Healthy Babies across the Borough. These hubs provide a wide range of high-quality, locally designed services for families in the six town areas:

Oldbury, Smethwick, Tipton, Rowley Regis, Wednesbury, and West Bromwich.

Our commitment is to create strong, resilient communities by:

Promoting easy access to services
Reducing barriers to engagement
Building lasting connections with families

The Role of the SfL Practitioner

Responsible for: No line management responsibility, however, will support volunteers and students.

Responsible to: Team Manager for SfL

Job Purpose: To provide services and support for perinatal mental health, parent infant relationships and infant feeding during first 1001 days.

Your base location and designated towns will be agreed upon appointment.

Objectives/key activities

In addition to duties outlined in the generic job description, the SfL Practitioner will be expected to:

Deliver focussed activity for antenatal stages through to the age of 2
Provide activities and deliver sessions promoting healthy Parent-Baby and Parent-Infant relationships
Have meaningful contact with families of new babies, welcoming them to Family Hubs and providing information
Delivery of universal access sessions to support perinatal mental health and parent infant relationship.
Ensure a wellbeing telephone calls are completed for all identified families and connecting to Family Hubs
Organise and deliver events such as cluster-based ‘bump to baby'
Help, encourage and connect families with 1001 initiatives.
Support with Early Identification of need, connecting families to appropriate services including internal services; Early Years, Family Support, Father's service, Health and Wellbeing and wider family hub network provision
To have an understanding of identification and support pathways to Family Support for neglect and reducing parental conflict
Promotion of ELT/NEF
Provision of Baby Bundles to care experienced young parents, encouraging access to antenatal services and Family Hubs.
To complete Unicef Baby-Friendly training, promoting initiatives, infant feeding, breast pump loan scheme and connecting to Breast Feeding Network
To actively engage in reflective case and personal supervision, Performance Growth Cycles and be responsible for updating learning, implementing into practice and develop skills to meet service needs.
To participate as part of wider rota for Saturday/evening service delivery
Undertake additional duties consistent with the role and services objectives.

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 appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  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.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

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.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

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.
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
The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave 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

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

Our basis and values