Family Hub Practitioner with Navigation, Health and Wellbeing

Job title:

Family Hub Practitioner with Navigation, Health and Wellbeing

Company

Barnardo’s

Job description

Join our team at Worcestershire Family Hubs – Wyre Forest – Permanent Fixed Term until 31/03/2027.Barnardo’s invites you to become a vital part of our dynamic team providing impactful services to children and families in the Wyre Forest within our Family Hubs and communities. We aim to support communities and families to become resilient by making services accessible and reducing barriers to engagement. The Family Hub locations are:

• Brookside Family Hub – Kidderminster
• Half Crown Wood Family Hub – Stourport-on-Severn

**Due to the nature of our work this role is service based, working from our Family Hubs and outreach locations across the Wyre Forest. **As a Family Hub Practitioner with navigation, health and wellbeing responsibilities, you will play a crucial role in fostering warm, supportive relationships with communities and individual families. You will promote the support available within Family Hubs through attending events and activities, facilitating targeted interventions in response to emerging needs and identified trends. Work with a variety of professionals and agencies to support and encourage engagement of vulnerable children and families through a variety of means including face to face, virtual and social media. Ensure that the views of children and families are at the forefront of service design through co-production.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 FrameworkWe 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.BenefitsWorkplace Offer: What it means for you

• 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 annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo’s service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo’s service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo’s service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• 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 contractAbout Barnardo’sWe 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.

Expected salary

Location

Wyre Forest, Worcestershire

Job date

Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:21:44 GMT

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