Location: Barnardo's Scotland Fostering Edinburgh Salary: £35,360- £47,320 Plus £312 Office at Home Allowance Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 6 May 2024 Barnardo's Scotland Fostering Edinburgh have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Supervising Social worker to join our busy team on a Full Time (37 hours) permanent basis.
Location: The successful candidate will work on a hybrid basis with their office base in Edinburgh, however some meetings and training occur Scotland Wide. As a Supervising Social Worker, you will work within a team of supervising social workers, children's workers, therapists, education liaison worker, managers, and admin staff responsible for the recruitment and support of foster carers who provide care to looked after children and young people who are referred to the service from the Local Authority. Some of the key responsibilities are:
Ideal Candidate's must haves:
Further details and application documents here Location: Barnardo's Highland Service Salary: Circa £35,360 - £47,320 Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 25 April 2024 Interview Date: TBC Barnardo's Highland are developing a new partnership service with the Highland Council, supporting care experienced children and young people with additional needs.
This is a new service within Highland which will look at the individual needs of children and young people and develop bespoke residential care packages using a right based, trauma informed approach working with the whole family around the child. The team working with the children will enrich their lives through care, support and activities which will be aimed at raising self-esteem, promoting a sense of mastery, and enabling the children to access experiences that are individually tailored to their interests and nurture their talents. The team will work with the wider partnership to ensure that Educational and Health needs are met.
Some of the Key Responsibilities include:
Location: Lincoln & Louth Salary: £23,400 - £28,600 Hours: 37 Contract type: Fixed term End date: 31 March 2025 Closing Date: 26 April 2024 Interview Date: 7 May 2024 Barnardo's work in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver its Leaving Care Service for care experience young people aged 16-25.
We support, encourage, and empower care experienced young people to live independent lives. Knowledge of the risks worries and safeguarding concerns when working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking young people is desirable. Initial Specific Responsibilities
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Further details and application documents here. Location: Barnardo's Fostering West Midlands Salary: £42,640 - £57,200 FTE plus £312 Office at Home Allowance Hours: 37 Closing Date: 13 April 2024 Interview Date: TBC Are you passionate about making a difference to Children's lives?
Barnardo's is a leading children's charity, and our Family Placement Service has a well-deserved reputation for providing high quality foster placements. We are looking for a dynamic and dedicated Operations Manager to join us on a full time, permanent contract at our busy fostering service in the Midlands. This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced and well-established family placement team providing high quality support to foster carers, careful matching of children and placement stability. Would you like to be involved in driving the growth and expansion of this model? As an Operations Manager, you will work alongside the Midlands Fostering Families Service and Assistant Head of Business undertaking specific management duties associated with the running of a diverse family placement service, playing a key role in the success of our fostering services. In particular you will work hard to ensure that every child entrusted to our care is kept safe and is given every opportunity to blossom and achieve great outcomes in line with the promise. You will be an approachable, innovative, and creative individual, with sufficient experience at a senior management level. You will be passionate about change, evidence a strong value base in line with Barnardo's values and behaviours, and be confident in your own knowledge and the ability to give advice to others. You must hold a Social work qualification ( Diploma/ BA/ or equivalent) please. Some but not all of the key responsibilities of an Operations Manager include:
Location: Barnardo's Fostering West Midlands Salary: £42,640 - £57,200 FTE plus £312 Office at Home Allowance Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 13 April 2024 Interview Date: TBC Are you passionate about making a difference to Children's lives?
Barnardo's is a leading children's charity, and our Family Placement Service has a well-deserved reputation for providing high quality foster placements. We are looking for a dynamic and dedicated Operations Manager to join us on a full time, permanent contract at our busy fostering service in the Midlands. This is an exciting opportunity to join an experienced and well-established family placement team providing high quality support to foster carers, careful matching of children and placement stability. Would you like to be involved in driving the growth and expansion of this model? As an Operations Manager, you will work alongside the Midlands Fostering Families Service and Assistant Head of Business undertaking specific management duties associated with the running of a diverse family placement service, playing a key role in the success of our fostering services. In particular you will work hard to ensure that every child entrusted to our care is kept safe and is given every opportunity to blossom and achieve great outcomes in line with the promise. You will be an approachable, innovative, and creative individual, with sufficient experience at a senior management level. You will be passionate about change, evidence a strong value base in line with Barnardo's values and behaviours, and be confident in your own knowledge and the ability to give advice to others. You must hold a Social work qualification ( Diploma/ BA/ or equivalent) please. Some but not all of the key responsibilities of an Operations Manager include:
You will be a qualified and registered social worker and will be subject to a DBS check. Further details and application documents here Location: Barnardo's Fostering and Adoption NI Salary: £35,360 - £47,320 + £312 Office at Home Allowance per annum Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 8 April 2024 Interview Date: TBC We have an exciting opportunity for a Social Worker to join us within the Barnardo's Fostering and Adoption Service Northern Ireland team.
Objectives of the Service: The primary aim of Barnardo's Fostering and Adoption NI is to provide the highest quality placements for children and young people who cannot live with their birth families, striving to ensure that Barnardo's strategic aims to achieve safer childhoods, stronger families and positive futures are realised for every child with whom we work. Working Hours: Monday to Friday (37 hours per week) Location: 230b Belmont Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT4 2AW This is a hybrid working role – We place value on colleagues spending time together at our office base on a regular basis, with flexibility to work from home for part of the week. Some of the Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Essential requirements to clearly evidence in your written application:
Further details and application documents here Location: Lincoln & Louth Salary: £23,400- £28,600 Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 5 April 2024 Interview Date: 15 and 16 April 2024 Barnardo's work in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver its Leaving Care Service for care experience young people aged 16-25.
Initial Specific Responsibilities
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Further details and application documents here Location: Edinburgh Salary: £35,360- £42,269 Plus £312 Office at Home Allowance Contract type: Permanent Hours: 37 Closing Date: 22 March 2024 Barnardo's Scotland Fostering Edinburgh have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Supervising Social worker to join our busy team on a Full Time (37 hours) permanent basis.
Location: The successful candidate will work on a hybrid basis with their office base in Edinburgh, however some meetings and training occur Scotland Wide. As a Supervising Social Worker, you will work within a team of supervising social workers, children's workers, therapists, education liaison worker, managers, and admin staff responsible for the recruitment and support of foster carers who provide care to looked after children and young people who are referred to the service from the Local Authority. Some of the key responsibilities are:
Ideal Candidate's must haves:
Further details and application documents here Location: Lincoln & Louth Salary: £23,400- £28,600 Contract type: Permanent Hours:37 Closing Date: 5 April 2024 Interview Date: 15 and 16 April 2024 Barnardo's work in partnership with Lincolnshire County Council to deliver its Leaving Care Service for care experience young people aged 16-25.
We support, encourage, and empower care experienced young people to live independent lives. Knowledge of the risks worries and safeguarding concerns when working with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking young people is desirable. Initial Specific Responsibilities
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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. In addition to the stated salary the post comes with a £3,000 uplift of worker retention payment from 01/04/24 to 31/03/25 paid pro rota: this is only payable once the probation period has been completed. Further details and application documents here Location: Bangor Contract type: Permanent Hours: 22.2 Salary: £34,353 - £42,120 Closing Date: 28 February 2024 Interview Date: 5th March 2024 An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Permanent Senior Social Work Practitioner/Team Manager post within Barnardo's Simpson Family Resource Centre, Bangor.
The successful applicant will be an experienced social worker with previous experience of providing supervision and support to team colleagues and managers, as well as experience of undertaking complex assessment and education with families. Simpson Family Centre is one of three Family Centres in the South Eastern Trust locality, and we work closely with our Trust colleagues to provide Family Assessment and Intervention Services to parents in order to contribute to decision-making processes for children, young people and families. The successful candidate must meet the following essential criteria:
Please ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the required criteria listed in the attached Additional Information Sheet. Location: Simpson Family Resource Centre, 40 Manse Road, Bangor, BT20 3DE Hours: 22.2 per week – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday Contract Type: Permanent Salary: £34,353 - £42,120 p.a. pro rata Closing: Midnight Monday 28th February 2024 Interview Date: Tuesday 5th March 2023 Contact Email: people.ni1@barnardos.org.uk A waiting list will be held in the event that similar vacancies arise during the next 12 months. The successful candidate will also be required to undertake enhanced Child and Adult barred AccessNI check. 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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role. 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 progression 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. Benefits Workplace Offer: What it means for you The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
About Barnardo's At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role. Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates. Full details and application documents here |
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