Job Description

Please note this is a locality working role, candidates will be expected to live within a reasonable distance from the Castle Point Area

The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.



The service, which HCRG provides in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.



Broad areas of support and service delivery are:



Health Visiting



Parenting Support



School Nursing



Family Health



Resilience and Child Development



Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)



Please see our website for further details www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk



To provide advice, support and services to children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. (Specifics of Service attached as applicable).


Key Responsibilities:

For Service Users

To work with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes. To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children. To work 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. To take responsibility for the more complex cases/situations presenting within the service. To contribute to Service development. To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

For Resources

To be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery. To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to report writing and producing and keeping management information.

For People (staff, students, volunteers)

Supervisionof staff, students or volunteers may be expected.


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.

Education/Knowledge

Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable (NB: For staff having sole and direct access to children, young people and vulnerable adults, there is likely to be a future requirement for an NVQ3 level qualification). Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e. g. disadvantage, poverty, disability). Knowledge of child/young people development. Knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Knowledge of legislation relevant to service aims.

Experience

Experience of direct work with children, young people and families. Experience of applying safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.

Skills/Abilities

Ability to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young people. Ability to work as part of a team. Ability to supervise work of others. Ability to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of writing and IT skills. Ability to write reports and produce other management information. Ability to analyse and resolve problems occurring in relation to service users and or staff supervised. Ability to apply Barnardo's safeguarding and child protection procedures.




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 FrameworkWe 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 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

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

Reference number: 22075
Job Title: Community Connector for Castle Point, Rayleigh & Rochford
Location: Castle Point Rayleigh & Rochford
Locality: Castle Point Rayleigh & Rochford
Contract type: Fixed term
End date: 31 August 2026
Hours: 22.5
Salary: 28,124.46 (FTE) 17,102.71 (Pro Rata)
Closing Date: 28 November 2025
Interview Date: TBC

Benefits

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Discounts at 100's of retailers
Employee suggestion scheme
Company pension
Employee Assistance Programme