Job Opportunity with Barnardo's: Senior Social Work Practitioner/Team Manager

Location: Bangor
Contract type: Permanent
Hours: 22.2
Salary: £34,353 - £42,120
Closing Date: 28 February 2024
Interview Date: 5th March 2024

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​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:

• Hold a professional qualification in Social Work recognised by NISCC & Registered with the NI Social Care Council.
• Have a minimum of 2 years' post-AYE and recent experience in a family and childcare setting across Hardiker levels 3 & 4.
• Experience of undertaking complex assessments and/or court directed work and contributing to statutory decision-making forums including the provision of written reports.
• Experience of working therapeutically with children/families effected by adverse experiences e.g. trauma, social disadvantage, family breakdown, parenting difficulties, mental health, domestic violence and substance misuse.
• Experience of applying child protection/safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Experience of supervising and supporting others within the workplace.

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: [email protected]

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.

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

*T&C's apply based on contract

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