Job Description

Service Overview

Barnardo\'s, the UK\'s largest children\'s charity, in Partnership with Leicestershire County Council, have recently opened a Family Assessment Centre in Market Harborough Leicestershire using a new pioneering model that is both trauma informed, and outcomes driven.

Where concerns have been raised about a child\'s welfare or a parent\'s capacity to provide safe and appropriate care, Welland House Family Residential Assessment Centre seeks to work alongside parents to address the issues specific to their case.

• Welland House has 3 self-contained flats, which will house 3 families. During their stay, the parents will be supported in their parenting by Barnardo\'s staff, whilst being assessed by Leicestershire County Council Children\'s Service.
• The Welland House team is supportive in its approach, with our primary aim centering around promoting best practices, through guidance, role modelling, key work sessions and practical advice on matters relating to concerns, risk, safety, routines and boundaries.
• This service is open 24 hours with shift pattern and on call.

Essential Requirements

• Must hold the Level 3 Diploma in Residential Childcare or equivalent
• Must successfully complete Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care and Children and Young People\'s Services in the children within the relevant timeframe
• Must hold valid UK drivers licence

Initial Location of Post

• Market Harborough. Must be able to travel throughout the Locality to meet the requirements of the role.

Are you the person we are looking for?

• Can you lead a shift and have experience in supervising others; can you manage conflict and are you solution focused in your practice; can you balance your own emotions whilst having sight of the needs of others so you can make clear decisions, solve problems and communicate more efficiently?
• Do you feel you can listen, provide support and encourage families who use the services at Welland House to help them develop their personal, emotional and social skills?
• Can you model best practice and provide advice and information to staff and empower parents/carers to change their responses in ways that would enable them to meet their children\'s needs?
• Are you able to help families to learn skills to help them in their parenting and acknowledge and praise existing skills, strengths and abilities in their parenting. Are you able to communicate how this can benefit their child and how it links to better outcomes?

Children and Families Services have identified the need to provide increasing numbers of placements for parents and their children. This is to reduce the number of children coming into Local Authority care and to assess parenting capacity where the courts have directed this.

Families utilising this type of service may include parents with learning needs; those presenting with issues around domestic violence and/or substance /alcohol misuse. Additionally, they may have mental ill-health and may have experienced some form of trauma in their life.

If you would like some more information about this role, please contact - Anne-Marie Sabaroche
anne-marie.sabaroche@barnardos.org.uk

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

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 . 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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo\'s as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

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 progression 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

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.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• 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

At Barnardo\'s we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

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