Senior Keyworker

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Senior Keyworker

The Greater Manchester Keyworker Service is seeking to recruit permanent, full-time, Senior Keyworkers to join our growing team. We support children and young people who have a diagnosis of Learning Disability and/or Autism and who are at risk of, are in, or at the point of discharge from a Tier 4 setting (mental health ward). The service covers all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester. We have 5 teams and are seeking senior keyworkers for our Bolton & Wigan, Manchester and Tameside & Trafford Teams.

This is a fantastic opportunity to ensure children and young people have the right support, at the right time, in the right way, supporting them to move from crisis, to coping and on to thriving. We are looking for individuals who are passionate, person-centred, empowering and hold children and young people at the centre of their practice. A s a Keyworker, you will deliver high quality support within the family home, residential placement, or inpatient setting. You will work as part of a team to prevent where possible children and young people from requiring an inpatient admission or placement through community based support.

You will be a connector and therefore need excellent communication and people skills, to build relationships with children, families and professionals involved in their lives, and to respectfully challenge as needed. In return you will be well supported and have access to learning and development opportunities. This service is dynamic, no two days are the same, however you will have children and young people who you will build positive and meaningful relationships with. You will manage your own diary with families, providing support at a time that suits their needs. This means you will be working some evenings and weekends. In return you will manage your hours so may benefit from later starts or earlier finishes. As a Senior Keyworker you will provide support to the children and young people with the more complex support needs or provide guidance to colleagues.

To be a successful Keyworker, you will need to have the following and demonstrate both in your application and at interview:

• Experience in supporting children with Learning Disabilities or Autism and ideally mental health.
• The ability to ensure the 'voice' of the child and family is central, enabling lived experience to create change.
• Excellent team working skills. You will work as part of a service that covers the whole of Greater Manchester. However, there are 5 teams providing the opportunity to offer support and create strong relationships and partnerships in a local area and with colleagues.
• Safeguarding knowledge and experience.
• Good verbal and written skills.
• Good recording skills.
• Multi-disciplinary team working experience and skill.
• A good level of IT and the ability to use differing systems and software.
• A car available for work with business class insurance, mileage is paid for business travel.

Within Barnardo's the job title for this role is Project Worker 2, this will appear on the 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.

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

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

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.