YoMo is looking for someone to cover Mat leave in our very successful Walk & Talk youth mental health service. This volunteer lead service is needing someone that has an interest & understanding of low level youth mental health issues, has good time management and a good listening ear.

Job description and Person Specification can be downloaded below.

• Are you passionate about children and families?

• Are you dedicated to supporting children have a voice?

• Can you embrace and pioneer change and growth?

• Can you lead and support a team through highs and lows?

Family Journeys supports children and families throughout their journey toward healthy, respectful, and nurturing relationships.

We focus on supporting families in a safe and supportive space to rebuild relationships, supporting the rights of children and their parents in their journey to successful co-parenting.

Following a period of significant growth, we are expanding and with 4 venues, 12 weekly shifts and 35 part time staff and volunteers, we are looking for a new Regional Manager to lead our Gorgie venue in Edinburgh.

At Family Journeys, we provide a range of services to parents and children to ensure that we are getting it right for every child. We operate throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians, with a dedicated and established team of part time Family Connections staff, registered mediators, project and operations staff. Our work requires a high degree of compassion, dedication, trust and professionalism. We work with families in often complex situations where non-judgemental and professional judgement is required at all times. Our work requires commitment to emotional safety and child protection and consistent high standards of best practice expected by our families, social workers, solicitors and courts.

“Child Contact” will become regulated in 2027 and mediation is already a regulated profession with formal registration. Codes of practice therefore guide our work and best practice is paramount for our service delivery.

We pride ourselves in our continuous development of a more therapeutic approach to our work and therefore quality assurance, creativity, passion and tailored techniques often complement our core services based around attachment-

Following a restructuring of our services in South East Scotland we have identified key themes of provision across the locality. You may be allocated to a specific funding stream and/or asked to undertake work in any of the delivery areas detailed below depending on need across the locality.

We are looking to appoint a Project Worker 1 to extend our offer to children, young people and families across South East Scotland. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced worker to join Barnardo's and support service delivery across a number of support areas throughout Edinburgh and the Lothians.

As a project worker in the South East Scotland Locality we have identified key themes of provision across the locality, such as Intensive Family Support, Early Intervention (Whole Family Support), Education Support, Family Support for those Affected by Imprisonment, CSE Awareness Raising and Support, Neurodiversity Support. The post holder may be offered work in any of the delivery areas detailed above depending on need across the locality.

We are seeking project workers who are developing their experience of supporting children, families and young people, as well as delivery across family support or community-based services.

Please read the person specification for this post alongside the Additional Information sheet for more details about the post.

If you have any questions or would like more information about the post, please contact Alison Howie (Team Manager) on alison.howie@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

Pay & Reward Framework

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, 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.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

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 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 HolidayPlus 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.

Our basis and values