Job Description

Sandwell Family Hubs, Black Country Locality
Additional Information:
Parenting Support worker (1001 days focus) - Sandwell Family Hubs
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Background and Service Specifics
Sandwell Family Hubs:
Barnardo's is proud to deliver Sandwell's Family Hubs across the Borough. The service provides a range of quality services for families, locally designed for the 6 town areas of the Borough, divided into 3 areas:
Cluster A - Oldbury, Smethwick
Cluster B - Tipton, Rowley Regis
Cluster C - Wednesbury and West Bromwich
Across the cluster, we are committed to delivering a robust offer for communities and residents, designed to promote access to services, reduce barriers to engagement and build resilient communities.
The Parenting team take an active lead working across the Borough (and within targeted clusters/areas), to deliver high quality, evidenced based/informed parenting for parents/carers. Sitting across all areas (Family Support, Early years/Education/SEND and health and well-being), the offer will achieve best outcomes for the families referred into that offer. The aim is to have a consistent and responsive offer across Sandwell Borough for all parents, offering flexible times and methods of engagement (i.e. face to face, virtual, webinars).
This role will have a focus on supporting parents/carers in their first 1001 days and is a hub/community based role. The role will entail supporting the delivery of programmes for parents with a focus on the early years element, this role will need you to be able to travel across Sandwell on a daily basis.
Objectives/key activities -Parenting Support Worker (1001 days focus)

• To support delivery of agreed KPI's related to parenting under the Sandwell provision of Family Hubs, under the leadership of an identified Team Manager. Specifically for Triple P Baby and Solihull approach for Parent/Carers during the first 1001 days.
• To identify, recruit and retain parents/families with a focus on engaging families.
• Support delivery of a range of positive parenting support services and evidence-based groups to parents and carers ensuring access to services is available when needed and co-deliver with external professionals as and when required. (Both face to face and virtual).
• To provide information, advice and guidance and education to support the confidence and resilience of all parents, parents 'to-be' and vulnerable parents and carers in their parenting.
• To participate in the promotion and facilitation of activities and events delivered by Sandwell Family Hubs, promoting effective parenting as a key strand in broader service offers.
• In relation to the provision of positive parenting support services and groups, work with partners from other agencies and SMBC to support packages which meet each family's needs; being responsive to their changing needs.
• Signposting of Parents/Carers to targeted SEND Early years/education parenting response, where this has been identified as a need.
• Support the broader delivery of aims and objectives under the Sandwell Family Hub offer i.e., liaison with key partners, ie., midwifery, health visitors, schools.
• To provide accurate recordings onto EHM system and submit monitoring for Synergy.
• To actively engage in reflective supervision, PDR's and be responsible for updating learning, implementing into practice and develop skills to meet service needs.
• To meet the needs of the service evening and weekend work may need to be undertaken as required.
• Any other duties deemed appropriate within your job role to reflect the needs of the service.

The salary for this role is xc2xa324,242.00 (Full Time Equivalent) other salaries are shown so that applicants are aware of the progression salaries and is non-negotiable.
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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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our 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
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
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.