Early Years Senior

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Sandwell Family Hubs:

Barnardo's is proud to be a delivery partner of 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 Early Years team take an active lead to work with partner organisations, local communities and residents to achieve best outcomes for the families within that area.

This is a new exciting opportnuity to join the Early Years team

Objectives/key activities - Early Years Team

• Plan and deliver targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes i.e.:
  • Play, Talk, Read Programmes to parents in coordination with Sandwell's PTR guidance framework; prioritised using additional resource through partnership with National Literacy Trust
  • Linking to Play, Talk, Read to increase the number of children 0-4 years who are active library members
  • Focus group sessions for those children scoring Red and Amber Wellcomm Assessments
  • To proactively promote and increase library membership
  • To take a lead on the collation of data for Play Talk Read sessions in towns with line management responsibilities.
  • To ensure that we have a consistent Home Learning Environment offer to families accessing Early years services

• To promote the ELT and NEF options with families through:
• Active promotion of the opportunities to families
• Ensuring that the wider Family Hubs team is aware of the offer and promoting with families.
• Promotional materials in the centres and other community venues
• Informal discussion with parents about the options available to them within children's centre services and community offer.
• Advice and guidance to parents in applying for places
• Direct follow-up with parents who have children that qualify for ELT but have not taken up the offer of a place in partnership with the local authority.

• To undertake Wellcomm assessments and support children
• Focus will be on children NOT in early years settings, who are between 18-24 months.
• Those children scoring amber or red in the assessment to be supported as appropriate using the associated resource book.
• To take a lead on collating data for wellcomm screening assessments in the towns.
• Planning and delivery of target language groups for those children scoring Red and Amber Wellcomm Assessments as an intervention.
• To complete and support others to complete Watchful eye documents to support Children's development alongside data collation and analysis of Watchful eye document.
• To take an active lead in inclusive practice within the Early years team.

• To engage with parents with preschool children across the relevant towns promoting take up of School Readiness Sessions including delivery of sessions.
• Work with the wider Family Hubs teams, including support for volunteers, to deliver activities and service specifics to meet the needs of the service across the borough.
• To support the delivery of Stay & Play sessions for families in venues across each town through voluntary sector organisations and volunteers working with Family hubs staff.
• To work alongside the SMBC Early Years Team in particular children's centre teachers to support providers of early years services.
• To inform Early Years lead of children identified as SEND within Family Hubs services to aid support with developmental progress of children, to help ensure that these children are tracked and supported. Further support will be provided by Autism West Midlands and SPDC for families with new and emerging diagnosis with seamless links with EYILS service.
• To line manage Early Years team members, including the provision of monthly supervision, coaching and PDR completion
• 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.
• To meet the needs of the service evening and weekend work will need to be undertaken as and when required.
• 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 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.