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An exciting opportunity has arisen within Barnardo's North Lanarkshire locality,  to be part of a team working in partnership with Action For Children, Home-Start and Impact Arts. The service aims to provide universal whole family support across North Lanarskhire.

We are looking for experienced practitioners to provide outreach Support across North Lanarkshire, based in or around community hubs.  The aim of the service is to help families to access the appropriate supports at the earliest possible time, ensuring a no wrong door approach.  

Referrals may be received from anywhere in North Lanarkshire including self-referrals and referrals from family members. In order to break down barriers to receiving support, the service will operate  7 days a week  including public holidays and evenings. 

You should be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, committed, and experienced worker, able to use your own initiative.  You should have experience of providing family support and understand the barriers that impact children and families and have experience of navigating families through these.

Those applying for the post should have an understanding of the GIRFEC Principles and The Promise framework and demonstrate how these will be applied in practice.

These posts will be 37 hours per week, but we may be able to consider applications for those wishing to work part time or job share.You must have the flexibility to work a rota which includes evenings and weekends and hold a valid driving license with access to own transport for the purposes of work. 

As part of our commitment,we will offer:

• Excellent learning and development opportunities,
• Competitive flexible annual leave and bank holidays,
•  pension scheme,
• access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling and life assurance.

We embrace the diversity of our workforce, encouraging all cultural celebrations to be promoted and observed within the workplace.

Should you require any further information in relation to this new and exciting opportunity, please contact Karen Motherwell – karen.motherwell@barnardos.org.uk , Mairi Roberts - mairi.roberts@barnardos.org.uk or Monica Holmes - monica.holmes@barnardos.org.uk 

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.

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. 

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.
• 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 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

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.  

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