Community Connector for Castle Point, Rayleigh & Rochford
| Posting date: | 19 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £17,102.71 per year |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 31 January 2026 |
| Location: | Rayleigh, Essex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 22075 |
Summary
Please note this is a locality working role, candidates will be expected to live within a reasonable distance from the Castle Point Area
The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
The service, which HCRG provides in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.
Broad areas of support and service delivery are:
Health Visiting
Parenting Support
School Nursing
Family Health
Resilience and Child Development
Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)
Please see our website for further details www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk
To provide advice, support and services to children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. (Specifics of Service attached as applicable).
Key Responsibilities:
For Service Users
To work 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.
To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community-based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
To take responsibility for the more complex cases/situations presenting within the service.
To contribute to Service development.
To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.
For Resources
To be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery.
To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to report writing and producing and keeping management information.
For People (staff, students, volunteers)
Supervision* of staff, students or volunteers may be expected.
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.
Education/Knowledge
Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable (NB: For staff having sole and direct access to children, young people and vulnerable adults, there is likely to be a future requirement for an NVQ3 level qualification).
Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e. g. disadvantage, poverty, disability).
Knowledge of child/young people development.
Knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Knowledge of legislation relevant to service aims.
Experience
Experience of direct work with children, young people and families.
Experience of applying safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.
Skills/Abilities
Ability to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young people.
Ability to work as part of a team.
Ability to supervise work of others.
Ability to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of writing and IT skills.
Ability to write reports and produce other management information.
Ability to analyse and resolve problems occurring in relation to service users and or staff supervised.
Ability to apply Barnardo's safeguarding and child protection procedures.
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
The Essex Child and Family Wellbeing Service brings together a range of existing services, having been commissioned by Essex County Council and the West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group.
The service, which HCRG provides in partnership with Barnardo's, ensures that families continue to have easy access to local services, with staff able to reach children and families in the community; whether in one of our Family Hubs or Delivery Sites, an Early Years Setting or School, or in a family's home. This flexible and innovative new way of working is about providing services without walls and ensuring those families who need support the most are easily reached.
Broad areas of support and service delivery are:
Health Visiting
Parenting Support
School Nursing
Family Health
Resilience and Child Development
Support for ages 0-19 (25 SEND)
Please see our website for further details www.essexfamilywellbeing.co.uk
To provide advice, support and services to children, young people and their families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. (Specifics of Service attached as applicable).
Key Responsibilities:
For Service Users
To work 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.
To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower them and to enable them to achieve better outcomes for their children.
To work co-operatively with children's services, health agencies and other community-based services, to provide the most effective service for children young people and families.
To take responsibility for the more complex cases/situations presenting within the service.
To contribute to Service development.
To apply safeguarding and child protection procedures.
For Resources
To be responsible for equipment/resources linked to service delivery.
To be responsible for case note recording, contributing to report writing and producing and keeping management information.
For People (staff, students, volunteers)
Supervision* of staff, students or volunteers may be expected.
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.
Education/Knowledge
Qualification mandatory for practice, where applicable (NB: For staff having sole and direct access to children, young people and vulnerable adults, there is likely to be a future requirement for an NVQ3 level qualification).
Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children and young people and families (e. g. disadvantage, poverty, disability).
Knowledge of child/young people development.
Knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
Knowledge of legislation relevant to service aims.
Experience
Experience of direct work with children, young people and families.
Experience of applying safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures.
Skills/Abilities
Ability to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young people.
Ability to work as part of a team.
Ability to supervise work of others.
Ability to accurately and clearly record case notes deploying the necessary standard of writing and IT skills.
Ability to write reports and produce other management information.
Ability to analyse and resolve problems occurring in relation to service users and or staff supervised.
Ability to apply Barnardo's safeguarding and child protection procedures.
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
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.