Senior Practitioner

Job description

Ready to take the next step in your leadership journey?
Do you have experience supporting children, young people and families? Are you passionate about early intervention and helping parents and carers build the confidence, resilience and skills they need to thrive?

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Senior Practitioner to join our Bridgend Family Support Services team, working across both our Bridgend Support Service for Parents and our Atebion Disability Family Support Service.

Our services provide strengths-based, relationship-focused support to families across Bridgend through evidence-based programmes, workshops, drop-in support and one-to-one coaching. We work alongside parents and carers to build confidence, strengthen family relationships and improve outcomes for children and young people.
What will the role involve?
As a Senior Practitioner, you will work closely with the Team Manager to support the effective leadership and day-to-day operation of both services, with a particular focus on the Bridgend Support Service for Parents.

• Provide line management, supervision, and support to the Parenting Support Team, leading on case management oversight and support with complex cases, safeguarding concerns and professional decision making
• Drive high-quality service delivery through quality assurance, performance monitoring and reflective practice
• Support the operational management of both services, including referrals, allocations, capacity and service outcomes
• Build effective partnerships with key agencies, represent the service at multi-agency meetings and forums, and contribute to service development and continuous improvement
• Oversee the planning and delivery of evidence-based programmes, workshops and group interventions
• Champion participation and co-production, ensuring the voices of families shape service delivery.

This is a 29.6-hour per week role, with flexibility to work the hours across either 4 or 5 days per week. As our services are designed around the needs of families, the successful candidate will be expected to work flexibly, including regular after-school and evening sessions to support the delivery of programmes, workshops and family support activities.
What are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who brings both strong practice experience and developing leadership skills.

• Significant experience of working with children, young people, parents, carers and families, with a strong understanding of early intervention and family support practice
• Experience of delivering and overseeing evidence-based group interventions, workshops and programmes that achieve positive outcomes for families
• Experience of supervising, coaching or managing staff, providing case oversight and supporting high-quality practice
• Strong safeguarding and child protection knowledge, with confidence in managing risk, supporting complex cases and guiding professional decision-making
• Excellent leadership, communication and partnership-working skills, with a commitment to strengths-based, relationship-focused and outcome-focused practice.

Why join us?
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key leadership role within a well-established service that makes a real difference to families across Bridgend. You'll help shape service delivery, support the development of staff and ensure families receive high-quality support when they need it most.
Additional Information
Please include clear examples within your application demonstrating how you meet the requirements outlined in the Job Description and Person Specification. Relevant experience may come from paid employment, volunteering, training or education. For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Sarah Rowe, Children's Services Manager on 07712 403 922.

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 appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, 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.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

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, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• 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.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave 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

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.