Support Worker

Support Worker (18259)

Location: Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address

Contract type: Permanent (Fixed term funded post)

End date: March 2025

Hours: 37

Salary: £23,400.00 - £28,600.00 (FTE)

Closing Date: 24 March 2024

Interview Date: 9th April

Purpose:

Established in 2014, the National Counter Trafficking Centre runs several programmes across England and Wales. One of these is the Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service (ICTG) as outlined in Section 48 of The Modern Slavery Act 2015.   

The legislation provides a duty to support all children and young people who have been trafficked and reside within one of these areas: Wales/Cymru, East Midlands, West Midlands Combined Authorities, Bedfordshire, Gloucestershire (including Bristol), Warwickshire, all London Boroughs, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (including Portsmouth and Southampton), Kent, Surrey, Essex, Greater Manchester, North and West Yorkshire, Lancashire and Merseyside.   To apply for this role you must live within a 40 miles radius of one of the area's stated above.

Do you want to improve the lives of young people affected by modern slavery? Do you have immigration, social care, or criminal justice experience? Are you ready to join a passionate growing team and step up to this challenge? If your answers are yes, we want to hear from you.

Do you drive? Do you have access to a car? If the answers are yes, we want to hear from you.

What are the responsibilities of the Support Worker - Independent Child Trafficking Guardianship Service:

Support for Children:

Independent Child Trafficking Guardians support children who have experienced trafficking and exploitation, working alongside other professionals to ensure that children receive appropriate support in line with their needs.

Within this role you will:

• To work as part of the team, to act as the initial point of contact for all general enquiries and referrals into the service.
• To ensure referrals made into the service, are recorded accurately and electronic files are opened and completed with relevant information.
• To support the Guardianship Assessment team in gathering the child's key information, by liaising with external partners, such as Social Workers, Police, Foster Carer. 
• To maintain up to date and accurate recordings on the children's electronic files.

National Work: 

• To provide oversight and monitor various communications methods used within the team and service. For example, emails boxes, phone system, online enquiries, etc.
• Collation of resources such as leaflets, reports, worksheets – ensuring all identified useful resources are stored / catalogued on electronic systems.
• Where appropriate contribute to national awareness raising sessions
• Contribute to national development work via workstreams within the National Centre
• Contribute to the national on call rota Home based with potential for extensive travel within your relevant region. 

The starting salary for this role is £23,400.00 (Full Time Equivalent), other salaries are shown so that applicants are aware of the progression salaries. 

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently until March 2025 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 March 2025.

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

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

• 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.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• 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

At Barnardo's we believe in children – no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and  Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates. 

Our basis and values