About the Service:
Family hubs are a place-based way of joining up locally in the planning and delivery of family services. They bring services together to improve access, improve the connections between families, professionals, services, and providers, and put relationships at the heart of family support. Family hubs offer support to families from conception to 19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Start for Life offer at their core.
The service will provide 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
Working pattern:
Monday to Friday (37 hours) with flexibility required for occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.
Some key activities/objectives include:
- To support in the delivery of a broad range of services and courses/programmes designed to improve the health, well-being and engagement of parents to be, parent/carers, children and families.
- Commitment to undertake any training to enable you to plan and deliver a range of courses/programmes/workshops for parents including HENRY, MoodMaster™, Antenatal Solihull Approach, Oral Health etc.
- Delivery of sessions to enable improved bonding and attachment between parent/carer and child through sessions such as Baby Massage, Baby Yoga, Baby Clubs etc.
- Introduce parents-to-be, parents/carers to the full range of Family Hub offer and broader family services through increasing service awareness and engagement by reaching out to as many families as possible including those who find it challenging to access.
- Prepared to work in an agile work environment to ensure needs of the service are met.
- Ability to work flexibly to cover boroughwide delivery.
- Deliver activities and opportunities to gain feedback from service users to influence service delivery.
- Support the design, maintenance and promotion of materials and opportunities designed to attract, engage, and build relationships with communities, including through the Virtual Offer, social media, newsletters etc.
- Work with the wider teams within the Family Hubs to meet the needs of the service across the borough.
- Any other duties deemed appropriate within your job role to reflect the needs of the service.
Person specification/shortlisting criteria
- Level 3 or equivalent qualification in relevant field
- Ability to work in Multi-disciplinary team.
- Effective Communication Skills with children, young people and families
- Ability/willingness to deliver programmes/sessions to parent/carers, children and young people.
- Experience of effectively managing own workload and meeting targets/deadlines
- Ability and experience of identifying and appropriately acting upon safeguarding concerns.
- Community and engagement experience
When completing your application please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience you have in relation to the Additional Information sheet, Person Specification & Job Description.
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.
This post is subject to an enhanced disclosure check.
Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31st March 2025 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31st March 2025.
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