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Service Objectives

The Warwickshire Children & Family Centre services improve the outcomes and life chances for all children, young people and their families by offering effective preventative and early intervention services, with a focus on those who are hardest to reach and are experiencing the greatest challenges in life.

Roles and responsibilities specific to this post

We are looking to recruit, a reliable, flexible and hardworking Early Years and Children's Practitioner to support the delivery of direct services to families. The support you provide may be through one-to-one support, groups, activities, courses, and crèches. Activity sessions may involve supporting children aged 0-4 years, and primary school age children.

Working together with other team colleagues the postholder will deliver stay & plays, holiday playschemes or afterschool club type activities for children, young people and families.

Please note this is an ‘As and When' post. Work hours offered will mainly within the hours of 8.30am - 5pm Monday to Friday, and Saturday mornings.

Work will take place in the Nuneaton and North Warwickshire locality areas. Outreach work is a significant and regular part of the team's work, so for this reason, it is essential that candidates must have means to travel to different work locations.

Can you help to:

Offer fun and engaging activities to support children to develop positive social and emotional skills
Plan activities in line with the EYFS
Build positive relationships with parents/ carers
Hold sometimes difficult/ challenging conversations with parents
Offer advice and support, or signpost and refer parents to the most appropriate service.

It is important that the successful candidate is able to demonstrate experience of and/or an understanding of the following:

Knowledge and practical experience of the EYFS, including an Early Years Childcare qualification to at least level 2, but level 3 is strongly desirable.
Experience of working with and supporting young children and their parents/ carers.
Confidence in communicating effectively with parents/ carers, colleagues and other professionals.
Competence in IT and email, working with Word and other Microsoft packages.
Experience of delivering Early Years/ children's activities in community settings is desirable.
Qualified to deliver Baby Massage and Chatter Matter's courses is desirable.

Are you friendly and welcoming?

Are you a confident person with good communication skills?

Can you work as part of a committed, professional and friendly team, to support improved outcomes for children and families?

If this sounds like you, please apply today. We very much look forward to meeting you.

Unfortunately, we are unable to accept CVs. When completing your online application form please tell us about your skills, knowledge, and experience, in relation to the job role and the context of the service as described in this advert, as well those described in the Person Specification, Job Description, and Additional Role Information and requirements.

Please ensure you complete all sections of the application form carefully. If the application form is incomplete this may result in your application not meeting our shortlisting criteria.

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