![]() Location: Bangor, County Down Salary: £34,696 - £42,541 Hours: 37 FT / 29.6 PT Closing Date: 17 February 2025 An exciting opportunity has arisen for two qualified social workers to become part of a well-established, dynamic team in one of Barnardo's family centres based in Bangor, County Down. Simpson Family Centre provides a range of assessments and education to parents and carers in partnership with the South-Eastern Trust. Using a strengths'-based approach, we always work with hope that parents and carers can be supported to make positive changes in order to care for their children.
Whilst the work with families is centre and community based, we support a hybrid model of working to include working from home as and when this is agreed. Please ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the criteria detailed in the attached Additional Information Sheet. Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address Salary: £74,184.50 - £80,093 Plus Office at Home Allowance £312 per annum Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 19 February 2025 This role leads the relationship fundraising function at Barnardo's which includes all our philanthropy, trusts, corporate partnerships and special events supported by a talented team of 30 people. It is an exciting time to join Barnardo's as we have just launched a new strategy and rebrand the charity to more clearly articulate our purpose and how we are driving change for children. With these conditions for success in place there is scope to significantly increase the engagement and support from philanthropists, trusts, foundations and companies.
We are looking for someone who wants to role model personal fundraising success and is an experienced leader of people. Someone who understand the complexity of working in big organisations and who can support their teams to build the relationships they need both internally and externally to drive success. Someone who works in a way that aligns with our behaviours framework and is excited about the opportunity to work in an organisation looking to work in an collaborative and integrated way. The role leads the overall programme, with the Head of Relationship Fundraising Operations providing oversight across key teams in the function, together they are focused on driving substantial income growth and managing both reputational and financial risk associated with the full programme. Click here for full details ![]() Foster carers representing the country’s leading children’s charity met with the Scottish Government’s Minister for Children, Young People and The Promise, Natalie Don-Innes MSP, to outline a pioneering new “extended family” model approach to foster care. To tackle the ongoing crisis in fostering, Barnardo’s Scotland first unveiled the ‘Mockingbird model’ in 2021 in collaboration with The Fostering Network which is inspired by the support and relationships of an extended family. Today, the Minister met with several foster carers who undertake care for children using this exciting model. Speaking about the Mockingbird model, Natalie Don-Innes MSP said: “All children should have the support, love and stability they need throughout their childhood, to enable them to have the opportunity to thrive. Foster carers have a vital role in this, by providing secure, stable and nurturing homes for children in their care. Foster care is key to delivering The Promise by 2030 and to supporting our collective efforts to tackle Child Poverty and I would like to thank foster carers for all that they do. Click here to read the full article ![]() More than a hundred years of families opening up their homes and hearts to children across the UK are being celebrated this week, as Barnardo’s opens its archives to reveal the history of fostering in the UK amidst national crisis. The charity, which has run fostering services since the Victorian era, hopes sharing these historic images will show the incredible impact that fostering can have – and encourage more people to consider fostering at a time when the system is in crisis. Brenda Farrell, UK Director of Fostering and Adoption for Barnardo’s, said: “Barnardo’s archives hold the history of fostering in the UK. We’re sharing these powerful images to demonstrate how people have been bringing children into their families for over 150 years. “While it’s wonderful to see these snapshots of history, we’re sharing them against the backdrop of a very real crisis in our society today. Having supported children for almost 150 years, we urgently need more people to come forward and consider becoming foster carers to play their part in continuing this legacy. Click here to read the full article ![]() Location: Barnardo's Fostering & Adoption Wales Salary: £41,416 - £47,793 plus £312 per annum Office at Home Allowance Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 9 February 2025 An exciting opportunity has become available for a Fostering Practice Manager to work within Barnardo's Cymru Fostering Service. The Fostering Practice Manager post will be responsible for a Pan-Wales Service, with hybrid working you will have the flexibility to organise work priorities with work/life balance as we pride ourselves on providing all workers with a friendly, safe, and supportive environment to work in. It is important to highlight that although this is a Pan-Wales service there will be no expectation on the candidate to travel on a weekly basis.
The Fostering Practice Manager will work collaboratively with other professionals and foster parents across Wales to ensure we are meeting the sufficiency needs of local authorities, whilst providing a high-quality service to all our foster parents. To be successful in the role you will require strong leadership skills and relevant experience of working with foster parents, children and young people. You will oversee the day to day operations of the service from supporting a team of supervising social workers to ensuring effective service delivery from the point of initial contact through to assessment and placements of children/young people. You will be able to demonstrate that you can think creatively in delivering high quality support to foster parents and have a significant level of knowledge and experience within the fostering sector. Click here for full job details ![]() Charity calls on government to launch national campaign amid rise in number of children entering care homes The UK is facing a fostering crisis where retiring carers are not being replaced by younger people, while the number of children entering care homes is rising, a charity has warned. The decline in foster carers is due to the impact of the pandemic, the costof living crisis, biological children staying at home for longer, spare rooms being used as home offices and changing family situations, Barnardo’s children’s charity said. Exclusive new polling of more than 4,000 adults for the charity showed that although nearly three quarters (73%) of adults in the UK were worried there are not enough foster carers, only 7% of those who are not currently approved carers would consider fostering a child within the next 10 years. When asked why they wouldn’t consider becoming foster carers, 82% of over-55s thought they were “too old” – despite this being the average age of a Barnardo’s foster carer – while more than a third of 25- to 44-year-olds said they already have children or want children that are biologically connected to them instead (34%). Click here to read the full article ![]() Location: Barnardo's Cymru Adoption & Fostering Service Salary: £35,713 - £41,416 plus £312 per annum office at Home Allowance Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 9 February 2025 We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our Fostering Service, based in Caerphilly, covering the whole of Wales. You will be enthusiastic, creative and passionate about supporting children and young people who are looked after, and their fostering families. You will be able to work therapeutically with people who have experienced trauma and loss in their lives. You will work in a way that acknowledges and validates their experiences and work with hope that their future may be different. You will also have opportunities to design and deliver training to a team of committed foster parents and peers. You will have strong assessment skills in order to complete Form F's and annual reviews.
Click here for full job details ![]() Locality: Valleys Salary: £34,696.53 - £42,541.20 per annum Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 29 January 2025 Would you like to join the Barnardo's Families Team offering bespoke support to families in Rhondda Cynon Taff?
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated individual to join Barnardo's as a Team Manager within the Resilient Families Service, working across RCT, to support children, young people and their families. Our team is split into two areas covering the East and West of RCT. There is a Team Manager post in each area, and this vacancy is for the Team Manager of the East Team, covering the Cynon Valley and East half of Taff Ely. What will the job involve? As a Team Manager you will be a registered Social Worker and will line manage the team of Intervention Workers who are responsible for providing advice, guidance and support to families in accordance with the aims and objectives of the service. You will be responsible for: Direct line management of a team of Intervention Workers supporting well-being, development, case work, performance and behaviour. Case allocation, monitoring, quality assurance and audit Responding to all safeguarding concerns received via C1/PPN referrals, disclosures or observations and escalating to Children's Services appropriately. Working in partnership with the Resilient Families Service Management Team, Children's Services, Education, Health and Community Agencies Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Lincolnshire Salary: £23,868 - £29,172 Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 31 January 2025 Interview Date: 10 February 2025 Barnardo's work in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver its Leaving Care Service for young people aged 16-25 years old. We support, encourage, and empower care experienced young people to live independent lives.
Due to the service expanding this has created two new Leaving Care Worker positions, one position based in Lincoln, supporting care experienced young people aged 16 - 21 years old and a further position based in Sleaford to support 21-25-year-old care experience young people, both roles are exciting positions and new additional posts within the service. The 21- 25-year position will include developing a step forward service for post 21 care experienced young people. Initial Specific Responsibilities Within Lincolnshire the Signs of Safety model is used across County as an assessment tool. Offering information, advice, guidance and support with Accommodation, Health, EET, Finances and Independent skills.
Click here for full job details ![]() Location: Northern Ireland Regional Office Salary: £54,457.16 - £70,016.23 Contract type: Permanent, Full Time Closing Date: 19 January 2025 Interview Date: 5 & 6 February 2025 Are you a passionate Social Worker with experience of senior leadership in the field of Social Work and Social Care? Do you have a vision for transforming and improving the lives of babies, children , young people and their families? If so, we invite you to join our dedicated team as a Senior Leader in Barnardo's.
You will play a pivotal role in shaping our organisational strategy and ensuring the delivery of exceptional care. You will lead a team of professionals, foster a culture of excellence and collaborate with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement. In order to achieve our purpose we require Senior Managers who are able to work within the complexity and uncertainty of commissioning and tendering in the voluntary sector and who are able to display business insight in a social care setting. If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role that makes a difference, we would love to hear from you. Click here for full job details |
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