Women's Community Health Worker
| Posting date: | 24 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £25,492.40 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Plus £312 Office at Home Allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 1 day per week |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 22535 |
Summary
Please note: although this role is hybrid/ home based, you will be required to travel around Aylesbury and High Wycombe on a daily basis.
Barnardo's is delighted to be working with Buckinghamshire Council to develop an innovative, culturally competent and culturally safe service to improve health outcomes for local women.
The role of the Women's Community Health Worker is to help improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of a targeted group of women, living within identified areas of Aylesbury and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire before, during and after their pregnancies. You will provide a range of targeted one-to-one, group and community-based activities offering health advice and guidance as well as support to access other services as appropriate. The Women's Community Health Workers will provide:
Support: Provide women with opportunities to identify areas for support and cocreate a plan together of how you will achieve these.
Education: Provide evidence based information to women in both one to one and group settings, enabling them to make evidence informed decisions about their health and care (training will be provided).
Navigation of the system: working collaboratively with partners to support their engagement of women and actively remove any barriers.
Gathering and sharing knowledge: Bring together local information pertaining to women's experiences, to help shape the service and bring about wider system change, ensuring all women have access to equitable services.
Women's Community Health Workers will also serve as “buddies” for peer support volunteers who will support the work of the service.
Who we are looking for
Whilst we strongly encourage applications from local ethnically minoritised individuals, we will prioritise those who bring a complementary skillset and experience to the role; as well as those that can strongly demonstrate the values of cultural humility in the following ways:
Self-reflection: Being aware of how your own world view/ use of language/ behaviours/ practices can positively and negatively contribute to people's ability to achieve
A commitment to ongoing learning/curiosity: Knowing that as an individual, you cannot know everything about someone's/ a group's lived experience and continuously seek to learn new things with an open mind, from a range of sources- including from communities themselves.
Compassion/empathy: The ability to decentre your own feelings and understand and share the feelings of others.
Awareness of negative power relations: Having an understanding of dynamics within society which can negatively impact others. This includes issues relating to: race, social class, gender, disability and sexuality.
There is a strong emphasis on supporting maternal and infant outcomes within this service, so experience working with mothers and babies/ young children would be advantageous but not essential.
In addition to the above, the Women's Community Health Workers will need:
To be approachable and friendly
To be adaptable
To use initiative and be able to work alone or as part of the team
Courage and confidence to challenge ways of working both within the service/ organisation and partners (with support)
Have the ability to work across Aylesbury and High Wycombe in a variety of settings including health and community venues
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.
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 delighted to be working with Buckinghamshire Council to develop an innovative, culturally competent and culturally safe service to improve health outcomes for local women.
The role of the Women's Community Health Worker is to help improve the health and wellbeing outcomes of a targeted group of women, living within identified areas of Aylesbury and High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire before, during and after their pregnancies. You will provide a range of targeted one-to-one, group and community-based activities offering health advice and guidance as well as support to access other services as appropriate. The Women's Community Health Workers will provide:
Support: Provide women with opportunities to identify areas for support and cocreate a plan together of how you will achieve these.
Education: Provide evidence based information to women in both one to one and group settings, enabling them to make evidence informed decisions about their health and care (training will be provided).
Navigation of the system: working collaboratively with partners to support their engagement of women and actively remove any barriers.
Gathering and sharing knowledge: Bring together local information pertaining to women's experiences, to help shape the service and bring about wider system change, ensuring all women have access to equitable services.
Women's Community Health Workers will also serve as “buddies” for peer support volunteers who will support the work of the service.
Who we are looking for
Whilst we strongly encourage applications from local ethnically minoritised individuals, we will prioritise those who bring a complementary skillset and experience to the role; as well as those that can strongly demonstrate the values of cultural humility in the following ways:
Self-reflection: Being aware of how your own world view/ use of language/ behaviours/ practices can positively and negatively contribute to people's ability to achieve
A commitment to ongoing learning/curiosity: Knowing that as an individual, you cannot know everything about someone's/ a group's lived experience and continuously seek to learn new things with an open mind, from a range of sources- including from communities themselves.
Compassion/empathy: The ability to decentre your own feelings and understand and share the feelings of others.
Awareness of negative power relations: Having an understanding of dynamics within society which can negatively impact others. This includes issues relating to: race, social class, gender, disability and sexuality.
There is a strong emphasis on supporting maternal and infant outcomes within this service, so experience working with mothers and babies/ young children would be advantageous but not essential.
In addition to the above, the Women's Community Health Workers will need:
To be approachable and friendly
To be adaptable
To use initiative and be able to work alone or as part of the team
Courage and confidence to challenge ways of working both within the service/ organisation and partners (with support)
Have the ability to work across Aylesbury and High Wycombe in a variety of settings including health and community venues
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.
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.