Early Years Outreach Worker
The service is designed to provide all families of pre-school children with accessible, community based services in their own homes, GP surgeries, children's centres/family hubs and a number of other community venues with extra help available to those that need it.
Barnardo's is directly managing 4 of those districts and we are seeking to recruit a part time - 29.6 hours per week – Early Years Outreach Workers for our Frankley Plus Children's Centre/Northfield Family Hub.
As an Early Years and Outreach Worker, your duties will include:
Providing and promoting Stay & Play sessions for families that promote child development.Providing and promoting positive play within the Early Years Foundation Stages for children, and support parents/carers in how they play with their children to encourage good child development.
Delivering and promoting key public health messages in group work.
Providing crèche facilities for under 5s while their parents/carers participate in parent focused activities/programmes.
Undertaking 2-year development checks (after appropriate training) for children in conjunction with the Health Visiting Service
Undertaking follow up visits to families who are seen to have not engaged with the service at the Health Visitor mandatory visits.
Supporting the delivery of baby activities to meet the health and development needs of children and families who attend.
Collecting and helping to collate evidence that demonstrates outcomes for children.
Ensuring suitability, safety and cleanliness of toys and other equipment, replenishing the supply of toys as required within the constraints of the budget.
Supporting parents who have children under 5 with SEND needs ensuring inclusive practice and signposting to additional specialist support as required.
Making effective links to family support ensuring all relevant information is shared, as appropriate, in relation to the children and parents.
This role will require you to travel independently across the district therefore you must be flexible and adaptable, particularly in relation to working hours and location.
At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking.This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Job Addendum document. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.Please note, we do not accept CVs.
For further information please contact Victoria Taylor-Bryant, Recruiting Manager, via email: victoria.taylorbryant@barnardos.org.uk
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.