Family Support Worker

At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need. Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Children and Young People in the Achieving Change Together Service, Barnardo's Cymru? Who are the Achieving Change Together Service? The Barnardo's Achieving Change Together Service provides an empowering holistic model of support for disabled children and their families, who live in Blaenau Gwent. Service Aims For parents / carers to feel more confident and equipped to meet the needs of their children. For parents / carers to support their child/children to reach their full potential. To work in partnership with other services and organisations in order to provide a holistic plan of support for the family. Facilitate group work to promote skills development, confidence and independence. To support and enable disabled children and their families to access mainstream, specialist and community resources that meets their needs. What does the Job Role involve? As a Project Worker (PW1), your duties will include: Utilising effective communication skills to engage children and families to build collaborative relationships. Supporting children and families to identify strengths and prioritise support needs. Planning, facilitating and evaluating groupwork programmes and one to one support. Maintaining accurate recordings. Celebrating achievements / successes. Establishing, developing and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues and other agencies. You will have: Experience of working with children and their families. Experience of undertaking assessments with children and families to co-produce holistic support plans. Experience of planning, facilitating and evaluating group programmes. Knowledge and experience of safeguarding. Ability to prioritise, organise, self-motivate and work on own initiative. Experience of partnership working with a range of voluntary and statutory agencies. Additional Information: Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification.  Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc. Need more information? If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Joanne Harper on joanne.harper@barnardos.org.uk 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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture 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 require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland) 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 an