Family Support Worker

Family Support Worker

Job description

Are you looking for a new challenge?

Would you like to join our team of Family Support workers offering bespoke support to families affected by disability with our Atebion Family Support Service in Bridgend?

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as a Family Support Worker at the Atebion Service, working across Bridgend County Borough, to support children, young people and their families.

What is the Atebion Disability Support Service?

Atebion is a successful Disability Family Support Service, with a good reputation for supporting children, young people and their families with disabilities and additional needs.







The Service has been delivered in Bridgend by Barnardo's since 2014. We offer support to children with a disability and their families, whether they are diagnosed or going through a diagnosis process.

The support provided by Atebion is tailored to the needs of each family by a support plan developed in partnership with the family.

The service provides short term, preventative support to build families resilience and coping strategies. Our team work directly with all members of the family to empower them to gain a greater understanding of the disability, explore coping strategies to manage difficult feelings and emotional behaviour whilst developing the confidence to access activities within their local community.

We support children and young people aged from 0-25 within their home, school and local community.

What will the job involve?

As the Family Support Workers you would provide advice, guidance and support through direct work with children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service.





You will do this by :

- Working with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis, using a variety of interventions, to identify needs and to achieve positive outcomes.
- Working in partnership with parents / carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
- Working co-operatively with tutelage, health agencies and statutory services to provide the most effective service for children, young people and their families.
- Contributing to service development.
- Apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.

The working days of the job include Monday to Friday and you will be responsible for managing your own diary. However, as Atebion deliver a number of group interventions,





you will be required to work evenings on a regular basis during term-time.

For example, we deliver one evening parent programme per quarter which runs from 6-8pm and a child / young person support group that runs after school until 6.30pm.

What are we looking for?

- An understanding and empathy for the issues facing vulnerable children, young people and their families.
- Experience of working with children, young people and their families.
- Ability to listen to and communicate effectively with children, young people, parent / carers and professionals and adapt this where necessary.
- Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
- An understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures.

Additional Information :







Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfill the requirements of our Family Support Worker job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description / Personal Specification.

Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc.

This role is fixed term due to funding and we hope that we can continue the post if funding is confirmed.

The role is based in Bridgend, South Wales and therefore, we will be unable to accept any applications who would rely on remote working.

Need more information?

If you require any further information about this opportunity, please contact Kirsty Badman (Team Manager) on 07596 333 308.

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 .

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 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

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