ADHD Practitioner

Job description

• Do you enjoy working with children and young people?
• Do you have a passion to support children who are showing typical ADHD behaviours and/or other neurodevelopmental conditions?
• Do you have experience planning and leading sessions/clubs for children and young people?
• Do you have experience in communication between professionals, both written and verbal?

Celebrating and Inspiring Children Who Do It Differently is a service funded by Surrey and Borders NHS Trust and offers support to 6-16 year olds living in Surrey, attending a Surrey State School. The Celebrating Service offer their support under the Mindworks Alliance (formerly CAMHS).

The groups run for 5/6 weeks and coincide with Surrey school half terms. Each half term the team are in new schools, so there is a lot of variation over the academic year which provides a fast pace and interesting role.

This is a term-time only role (39 weeks per year) for 21 hours per week, worked on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. These days are fixed as they are when groups are delivered. A full UK driving licence and access to a car are essential, as county-wide travel is required. Sessions can start from 8:30am, and staff are expected to arrive 15 minutes before the start time.

The Celebrating and Inspiring Team has a dedicated admin colleague who liaises with the schools in Surrey to book in groups. There are always two Barnardo's colleagues running the groups, one colleague leads and one colleague supports. The colleague leading the session is responsible for the admin linked to that group. The leading and supporting roles are shared fairly across the team throughout the 5/6 week rotations. Full training is provided to ensure you are confident with the admin and leading our sessions. Our sessions are planned following our programme and scope of work, however the team work together to create meaningful developments as required following team meetings and ensuring the voice of the child is factored in to developments of our sessions and aims.

Essential for the role:
Full UK Driving Licence upon application and access to a car.
Once appointed organise business car insurance to be able to claim mileage expenses.
Ability to work independently and part of a team.
Good written and verbal use of the English Language.
Good understanding of Neurodevelopmental conditions predominantly ADHD this can be through a career or personal understanding.
Strong understanding of safeguarding of staff and children.
Keen eye for detail to accurately record paperwork.
Organised individual to manage a busy working diary with groups across the week in different parts of the county.

Full training is provided for this role.

Mileage can be claimed for business travel beyond your normal commute to the team's hub in Leatherhead. To claim mileage, you must have business car insurance covering travel between multiple work locations. Support can be provided to arrange this. A laptop and mobile phone will be provided.

Any questions about the role please contact Michaela Hussey at [email protected]

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to31 July 2027 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 31 July 2027.

There is 1 vacancy for this post. Ideally candidates will start as soon as possible. Our recruitment process can take up to 8 weeks, a DBS is required, if you are on the update system this may reduce the recruitment process time.

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.