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Family Support Practitioner / Children & Young People's Practitioner

Make a Difference in the Lives of Children, Young People and Families

We are looking for a passionate, committed and experienced Bricklaying Project Worker to join our team, working directly with children, young people and families to help them overcome challenges, build resilience and achieve positive outcomes.

This is a rewarding opportunity for someone with experience of supporting vulnerable children and families, who can build positive relationships, work collaboratively with partners and apply safeguarding practices with confidence.

About the Role

Bricklaying Project Worker (Primarily bricklaying, with aspects of tilling and plastering preferred.) needed to join our team of vocational tutors at Barnardo's Employment Training and Skills North, based in North Shields.

Barnardo's delivers a range of learning programmes to vulnerable young people using creative and innovative delivery models and this is an exciting opportunity to develop your skills and career with a forward-thinking learning provider. We are currently looking for a tutor to deliver a variety of brick laying courses and multi skills courses to support our young people to gain qualifications and move into employment.

The tutor role will provide a pivotal role to the development of the Barnardo's ETSN to offer Study Programmes to young people aged 16-18 (up to 25 with an EHCP) school programmes and apprenticeships.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver direct support and interventions to children, young people and families.
Build strong relationships with parents and carers, empowering them to achieve positive outcomes.
Work collaboratively with statutory and community partners to provide effective support.
Manage and support complex cases within the service.
Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of services.
Apply safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures at all times.
Maintain accurate case notes, reports and management information.
Take responsibility for resources and equipment linked to service delivery.
Provide day-to-day support, guidance and supervision to staff, students or volunteers where required.
Promote and maintain health, safety and wellbeing within the working environment.

About You

We are looking for someone who has:

Knowledge and Qualifications

A relevant qualification required for practice, where applicable.
Ideally a relevant NVQ Level 4 or 5 qualification, or equivalent.
Understanding of the challenges facing vulnerable children, young people and families, including disadvantage, poverty and disability.
Knowledge of child and young people's development.
Knowledge of safeguarding, child protection and relevant legislation.

Experience

Experience of direct work with children, young people and families.
Experience of applying safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.
Experience of partnership working with a range of professionals and agencies.

Skills and Abilities

Excellent communication and listening skills, with the ability to engage effectively with children and young people.
Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team.
Confidence in supervising and supporting the work of others.
Strong written and IT skills, including accurate case recording and report writing.
Ability to analyse information, resolve problems and make informed decisions.
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to be part of a dedicated team making a real difference to the lives of children, young people and families. You'll work in a supportive environment where your expertise, compassion and commitment can have a lasting impact on the communities we serve.

If you are passionate about helping children and families thrive and have the skills and experience we're looking for, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today.

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 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.

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 People & Culture 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.

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