Job Description

Join Our Growing Team as a Senior Practitioner! ?
Part-Time | 15 Hours Across 3 Days | Greater Manchester | Term-Time Friendly
Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children, young people, and their families? Looking for a role that fits around school hours and offers real impact, variety, and flexibility?
Due to exciting service expansion, Barnardo's Greater Manchester SEND Services is looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic Senior Practitioner to join our dynamic team. This is a fantastic opportunity to lead, inspire, and grow-while doing work that truly matters.
What's the Role?
As a Senior Practitioner, you'll take the lead in planning and delivering our Holiday Club Provision across Trafford and Rochdale. You'll also line manage a team of As and When Workers-supporting recruitment, supervision, and development-ensuring high-quality, inclusive services for families.
You'll work closely with our Team Manager and Children's Services Manager to keep things running smoothly and creatively. No two days are the same!
Where We Work
Our services span across Greater Manchester, including Trafford, Rochdale, and Bury, and include:

• Holiday Club Provision
• Information, Advice and Support Services
• Mental Health Key Worker roles
• Neurodiversity in Education Projects

What You'll Need

• A UK driving licence and access to a vehicle (travel across GM is essential)
• A passion for working with children, young people, and families
• A strong understanding of SEND and inclusive practice
• Confidence in leading and supporting a team
• Excellent organisation and communication skills
• Solid safeguarding knowledge and accurate recording abilities

What We Offer

• A comprehensive training package including Safeguarding, EDI, GDPR, and access to internal and external learning opportunities
• A supportive team environment with regular supervision and development
• A role that offers career progression and the chance to shape services that empower families

Sound Like You?
If you're looking for a meaningful role that offers flexibility, variety, and the chance to lead with purpose, we'd love to hear from you.
Please refer to the Person Specification, , and Additional Information when completing your application. The internal job title for this role is Project Worker 2.
Ready to take the next step in your career with Barnardo's?
Apply now and help us make a difference.
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 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
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.

Skills Required