ADHD Specialist Practitioner

Job description

• Are you passionate about supporting Children, Young People and their Families?
• Can you bring empathy to this role, offering support and guidance to families when they are questioning neurodevelopmental needs in their young person?
• Do you have experience of working with children, young people and/or their families around neurodevelopmental conditions, especially ADHD?
• Are you a confident speaker and able to maintain engagement in a group environment either online or in person?
• Do you have confidence in supporting families in person and online?

Barnardo's Surrey Neurodevelopmental Services are offered to children, parents, carers and professionals in partnership with Surrey Mindworks.

One of our services, Surrey Positive Parenting provides support to parents/carers whose children are aged 6-18 years who are in receipt of, or who are awaiting a diagnosis of, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Our service is offered to the whole county of Surrey.

Surrey Positive Parenting delivers upskilling programmes to groups of parents/carers across the county of Surrey predominantly through MS Teams. The service also offers the programmes which last 6-8 weeks to schools for the parents/carers of that school. This service works solely with the parents/carers. A DBS will be required.

Essential for the role:

Full UK Driving Licence and access to car
Business Car Insurance once appointed for the role
Understanding and experience of ADHD through professional or personal journey
Ability to work independently and part of a team
Ability and experience of delivery group work, ideally to parents/carers
Confident speaker and ability to maintain engagement in a group setting, in person and online
Strong IT skills and willingness to learn our recording systems
Safe working from home space which provides a confidential and quiet space to be able to conduct our sessions which are confidential
Able to work one evening a week, with potential/optional additional work if there is a need to cover colleagues who are not in work, this can be short notice but is offered to whole team
Some storage space required at home to safely store, in a provided lockable rucksack, your work laptop, phone and card reader for our recording systems as well as some session materials, handbooks, supportive non confidential paperwork. This extends to but not limited to, items like flipcharts and projectors on occasions for when delivering a programme in a school/venue
Strong understanding of EDI - equality, diversity and inclusion. This is a core value of Barnardo's in the way we work and support our families
Strong safeguarding skills and ability to adopt our safeguarding policy and procedures through training and implementation within the role

Desirable for the role:Previous role delivering group support to parents/carers about a neurodevelopmental condition or parental wellbeing
Strong understanding of MS Teams
Strong understanding of Outlook
Understanding or experience of SystmOne
Living in or close to Surrey, UK as this will support your time and travel to our in person sessions and/or meetings

Currently our colleagues are being placed on a hybrid contract. Barnardo's are committed to ensuring our contracts best match the type of work that is assigned to our services. Although a higher percentage of this role is home based, our office location is our Surrey Wellbeing Hub in Leatherhead. Mileage claims are currently made from this address. Materials and session equipment is stored at this office. There is also the option to travel to a Surrey venue, a London Barnardo's Office or our Essex Head Office, as sometimes our training can be offered at various locations.

The 18.5 hours for this role are worked over 3 days. One of these days includes an evening session, not on Fridays. The evening day shift usually starts at 12:30pm, and finishes around 8:30/9pm. Alternatively, it could be worked 9am-9pm with a larger break in the middle of the day for example 1:30pm-5:30pm. This can be discussed at interview. The other 2 days are usually worked 9:30am-3:00pm. The days for this post are Monday-Wednesday. Wednesday is the evening working day as this is when our group runs. This is non-negotiable. During the probation period there will be a need for some flexibility to ensure you are able to shadow and observe a variety of our groups.

There might be possibilities for flexible working when we have colleagues off rota or in training. We can sometimes offer overtime or Time off In Lieu for different/extra hours worked, for example covering a group on a different day due to holiday within the team. This is not part of the contract and is at managers discretion and offered to all colleagues fairly. There may also be opportunities to shadow and support our other services within our Mindworks contract as part of your onboarding experience. Across the team/s Wednesday is a key working day, this is the day we most likely book all team meetings online or in person, staff training or office meetings.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31st March 2028 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31st March 2028.

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.