Community Based Early Years Senior

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 and two, and to those with children of all ages, which is 0-19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Start for Life offer at their core.

This service gives us a unique opportunity to support the setup of additional community led Early years settings alongside support existing settings. This service is developed and is looking for a strong individual to continue to the great work that has already started within community led settings.

Sandwell Locality

Barnardo's is proud to be part of the network to deliver Sandwell's Family Hubs across the Borough and additional services. The Community Based Early Years service will work closely with the Early Years teams within the Family Hubs and with partners across the Family Hub Network.

The service will provide a range of quality services linked to early years within the community covering all of Sandwell.

We are committed to delivering a robust offer for communities and families, designed to promote access to services, reduce barriers to engagement and build resilient communities.

The Community Early Years Senior will be integral to the relationship development with existing early years providers alongside new services. (for the purpose of this JD 'parents' includes parents, carers, co-parents and guardians).

Objectives/key activities - Community led Stay & Play

Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes i.e:

• To ensure at least 30% of stay and play volunteers complete Family hub training linked to Early Language and Home Learning, such as First words together programme or Making it REAL by March 2025.
• Increase the number of community led stay and plays by 20% by March 25.
• 50% of community stay and play groups to be part of the Family Hub Network within the first 6 months. This to increase by a minimum 5% month on month.
• Stay and Play groups to strengthen their session and environment to promote and improve early language. The provider to share examples of how this has been achieved and the impact on families. The target would be for a minimum of 12 groups to demonstrate this within the first six months, and a continuing 10% increase month on month.
• Stay and Play groups to strengthen their session and environment to promote the importance of the Home Learning Environment. The provider to share examples of how this has been achieved and the impact on families. The target would be for a minimum of 12 groups to demonstrate this within the first six months, and a continuing 10% increase month on month.
• To support and mentor students/volunteers as they are recruited to set up and deliver Community Early Years provision.
• Collate data to show the impact and outcomes of the service and supporting with reports and presentations
• Qualitative data to be collated each quarter (1 per town each quarter) showing the impact and outcomes of the service.

To work in a collaborative manner with Existing settings, volunteers, family hub partners, Early Help & SCVO

• Capture the voice and experience of the local community, parents & children and utilise this to inform and develop service delivery.
• To ensure the involvement of fathers and significant males.
• Work with the wider Family Hubs teams, including support for volunteers, to deliver activities and service specifics.
• To work alongside the SMBC Early Years Team in particular Children's Centre Teachers to support providers of early years services.

Working in collaboration with agencies to strengthen the exit strategy to ensure sustainable change.

To actively engage in reflective case and personal supervision, PDR's and be responsible for updating learning, implementing into practice and develop skills to meet service needs.

Work with the wider teams within Sandwell Family Hubs Offer to meet the needs of the service across the borough.

Evening and weekend work will need to be undertaken as required to meet the needs of the service.

Any other duties deemed appropriate within your job role to reflect the needs of the service.

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 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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture 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.

Our basis and values

Documents

• Information Sheet for Applicants Applying for Positions Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults (updated July 2021).pdf (107.00 KB)
• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Project Worker 2 - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (0.59 MB)
• Recruitment of ex-offenders policy Nov 2024.pdf (108.18 KB)
• Additional Information - Community based Early Years Senior.pdf (38.70 KB)