Early Years and Outreach Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 03 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £13.25 yr awr |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 17 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Northfield, Birmingham |
| Gweithio o bell: | Ar y safle yn unig |
| Cwmni: | Barnardo's |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 21342 |
Crynodeb
Birmingham Forward Steps is a citywide service delivered collaboratively by Birmingham Community Healthcare Trust working alongside Barnardo's and other voluntary organisations, operated across 10 districts for children and their parents/ carers from shortly before birth up to the age of five. The service is designed to provide all families of pre-school children with accessible, community-based services in their own homes, GP surgeries, children's centres/family hubs and a number of other community venues with extra help available to those that need it.
Barnardo's is directly managing 4 of those districts and we are seeking to recruit an as and when Early Years Outreach Worker for our Frankley Plus Children's Centre/Family Hub.
The role is advertised as and an as and when worker. This means that you you will work as and when needed as directed by the organisation and service demands.
As an Early Years and Outreach Worker, your duties will include:
Providing and promoting Stay & Play sessions for families that promote child development.
Providing and promoting positive play within the Early Years Foundation Stages for children, and support parents/carers in how they play with their children to encourage good child development.
Delivering and promoting key public health messages in group work.
Providing crèche facilities for under 5s while their parents/carers participate in parent focused activities/programmes.
Undertaking follow up visits to families who are seen to have not engaged with the service at the Health Visitor mandatory visits.
Supporting the delivery of baby activities to meet the health and development needs of children and families who attend.
Collecting and helping to collate evidence that demonstrates outcomes for children.
Ensuring suitability, safety and cleanliness of toys and other equipment, replenishing the supply of toys as required within the constraints of the budget.
Supporting parents who have children under 5 with SEND needs ensuring inclusive practice and signposting to additional specialist support as required.
Making effective links to family support ensuring all relevant information is shared, as appropriate, in relation to the children and parents.
This role will require you to travel independently across the district therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.
At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Job Addendum document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Please note, we do not accept CVs.
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.
For further information please contact Victoria Taylor-Bryant, Recruiting Manager, via email: Victoria.taylorbryant@barnardos.org.uk
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.
Our basis and values
Barnardo's is directly managing 4 of those districts and we are seeking to recruit an as and when Early Years Outreach Worker for our Frankley Plus Children's Centre/Family Hub.
The role is advertised as and an as and when worker. This means that you you will work as and when needed as directed by the organisation and service demands.
As an Early Years and Outreach Worker, your duties will include:
Providing and promoting Stay & Play sessions for families that promote child development.
Providing and promoting positive play within the Early Years Foundation Stages for children, and support parents/carers in how they play with their children to encourage good child development.
Delivering and promoting key public health messages in group work.
Providing crèche facilities for under 5s while their parents/carers participate in parent focused activities/programmes.
Undertaking follow up visits to families who are seen to have not engaged with the service at the Health Visitor mandatory visits.
Supporting the delivery of baby activities to meet the health and development needs of children and families who attend.
Collecting and helping to collate evidence that demonstrates outcomes for children.
Ensuring suitability, safety and cleanliness of toys and other equipment, replenishing the supply of toys as required within the constraints of the budget.
Supporting parents who have children under 5 with SEND needs ensuring inclusive practice and signposting to additional specialist support as required.
Making effective links to family support ensuring all relevant information is shared, as appropriate, in relation to the children and parents.
This role will require you to travel independently across the district therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.
At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Job Addendum document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described. Please note, we do not accept CVs.
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.
For further information please contact Victoria Taylor-Bryant, Recruiting Manager, via email: Victoria.taylorbryant@barnardos.org.uk
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.
Our basis and values
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