System Change Lead (Oral Health)

Job description

We're excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our inclusive and supportive team as System Change Lead (Oral Health).

• Do you want to work for the UK's largest children's charity?
• Are you passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of babies, children, young people and families in Tower Hamlets?

Are you motivated to improve oral health outcomes in Tower Hamlets?

Do you want to join a team and organisation where you are developed?

This role could be right for you.

About us

Barnardo's Values are at the heart of all we do...

• Respecting the unique worth of every person (supportive)
• Encouraging people to fulfil their potential
• Working with hope
• Exercising responsible stewardship

If you align with these values and are ready to make a meaningful impact in an organisation that puts our people first, we'd love to hear from you. We have a strong culture of colleague support and a commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and belonging. At Barnardo's we believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and promoting wellbeing so you will receive regular supervision and training.

About you

This role involves:

• engaging babies, children, young people, families and community and professional partners in activities that centre their voices, lived experiences, and views, including collecting feedback, so that voices influence decisions, and
• using the community's voices to support system leadership that brings attention to the barriers and inequities faced, working collaboratively with others to improve the system and improves oral health outcomes.

We are looking for someone with:

• An interest in oral health outcomes
• Experience in designing and facilitating activities to capture the voices of children, young people and families
• Confidence in system leadership
• Communication and relational skills
• An excellent team spirit and commitment to working together
• Time management skills and the ability to manage/meet deadlines
• A commitment to their own learning and development
• Organisational skills
• IT literacy
• Resilience to change and ability to remain responsive to changing demands
• Problem solving skills and creative thinking
• Responsibility and accountability, who can apply Barnardo's policies and procedures in all areas of the role.

Please refer to the job description and person specification, and the additional information, in your application to capture and demonstrate the qualities, motivation, enthusiasm, and skills required to create positive experiences that help babies, children and young people to be safer, happier and more hopeful.

About the role

The role is part time - 18.5 hours - with the working pattern to be agreed with the successful candidate. The service's usual business hours are Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm. However, the successful applicant will be asked to demonstrate flexibility in their working pattern and hours to meet the needs of the service i.e. to attend activities, sessions, workshops or events outside of those hours.

The team are community based so the ability and flexibility to travel across Tower Hamlets, and to other locations for training or work, is essential. The post holder will be required to work independently within office or community settings.

Pre-employment checks will be required for the role.

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.