Barnardo's Virtual Family Space Cymru – Project Worker 2
| Posting date: | 30 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15,202.41 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus £312 Office at Home Allowance |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 February 2026 |
| Location: | Wales, UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 22365 |
Summary
Barnardo's Virtual Family Space Cymru is committed to empowering Parents and Carers with a variety of virtual resources, workshops, and parenting programmes to support their parenting journey. As we expand our service reach into Wales we are seeking experienced Welsh speaking facilitators to join our team.
Role Overview:
This is a Welsh essential Project worker role. The role will include the option for evening and weekend sessions. This role is Hybrid working but mostly from home with expectations to attend some face-to-face meetings and training. Base for expenses purposes service closest to your home.
This is an evolving role and one of the responsibilities will be to provide a variety of both one to one support sessions to carers and group workshops for parents of children, such as Sleep and Toddler Talk, along with parenting programmes such as The Cygnet programme, or similar. The role will also involve some signposting for parents and carers following completion of a ‘brief assessment' to ensure the right advice and signposting takes place. This role fundamentally will be able to support our parents with any concerns they may have regarding our support offer.
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver one to one support to carers
Deliver effective workshops sessions and parenting programmes.
Collaborate with parents, carers, and children in the development of our services.
Signpost Parents and Carers to the correct services following discussions around needs.
Adapt delivery methods to meet the diverse needs of participants.
Requirements:
Proven experience of working with families one to one and or in groups
Understanding and sensitivity to the challenges faced by families.
Ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends as required.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Proven experience of evidencing outcomes for parents and carers.
Experience with Additional Needs and early years desirable, but training will be provided.
Spoken and written Welsh language skills
Some evening and weekend work required
Application Process:
In your application, please refer to your skills, knowledge, and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description, and Additional Information document provided. Highlight your experience in delivering services, detailing any relevant examples. Also, please specify the number of hours per week you are available.
Additional Information:
We are looking to engage candidates, offering Welsh language in the sessions. If you have the expertise and want to be part of a fledgling team with big ambitions please apply.
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.
Barnardo's is an inclusive organisation that values diversity and is committed to equality. Apply today to make a significant impact in the lives of families and young people.
For further information please email karen.marlton@barnardos.org.uk
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.
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
Role Overview:
This is a Welsh essential Project worker role. The role will include the option for evening and weekend sessions. This role is Hybrid working but mostly from home with expectations to attend some face-to-face meetings and training. Base for expenses purposes service closest to your home.
This is an evolving role and one of the responsibilities will be to provide a variety of both one to one support sessions to carers and group workshops for parents of children, such as Sleep and Toddler Talk, along with parenting programmes such as The Cygnet programme, or similar. The role will also involve some signposting for parents and carers following completion of a ‘brief assessment' to ensure the right advice and signposting takes place. This role fundamentally will be able to support our parents with any concerns they may have regarding our support offer.
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver one to one support to carers
Deliver effective workshops sessions and parenting programmes.
Collaborate with parents, carers, and children in the development of our services.
Signpost Parents and Carers to the correct services following discussions around needs.
Adapt delivery methods to meet the diverse needs of participants.
Requirements:
Proven experience of working with families one to one and or in groups
Understanding and sensitivity to the challenges faced by families.
Ability to work flexibly, including some evenings and weekends as required.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Proven experience of evidencing outcomes for parents and carers.
Experience with Additional Needs and early years desirable, but training will be provided.
Spoken and written Welsh language skills
Some evening and weekend work required
Application Process:
In your application, please refer to your skills, knowledge, and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description, and Additional Information document provided. Highlight your experience in delivering services, detailing any relevant examples. Also, please specify the number of hours per week you are available.
Additional Information:
We are looking to engage candidates, offering Welsh language in the sessions. If you have the expertise and want to be part of a fledgling team with big ambitions please apply.
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.
Barnardo's is an inclusive organisation that values diversity and is committed to equality. Apply today to make a significant impact in the lives of families and young people.
For further information please email karen.marlton@barnardos.org.uk
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.
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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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.