Salary: £23,131.05 per annum
Location: Swaffham, Norfolk.
Contract/Hours: Full-Time 37 hours (occasional evenings required), Fixed Term till March 2025.
Benefits:
- A generous annual leave entitlement of 29 days PLUS bank holidays
- Up to 5 more days leave for continuous service plus the option to buy and sell leave.
- Gain professional qualifications with excellent training, and development opportunities.
- Flexible maternity, adoption, and paternity packages.
- A pension with a up to a 7% employer contribution rate. Plus, if you pay in to the pension you will receive life assurance cover.
- Staff discount portal with your favourite brands.
- Blue Light Card eligibility with 15,000 discounts from national retailers.
Vulnerable children in the UK need your help.
Wherever you work in the Action for Children family, you'll be helping to change the lives of the most vulnerable children in the UK.
Last year, we helped more than 670,000 children and families across the UK. From direct work in communities to national campaigning, we are focused on making sure every child has a safe and happy childhood, and the foundations they need to thrive.
Why Action for Children?
Working here is more than a job. Everyone in the Action for Children family is passionate about protecting and supporting children. It's the sense of purpose that drives us every single day. Because we know that, when we work together, we can make a huge difference to bring lasting improvements to vulnerable children's lives.
A bit about the role
Norfolk's Early Childhood and Family Service provide targeted support to families with children aged 0-5 years. The service offers a range of early childhood services for parents, prospective parents, and young children to support in areas including bonding, speech and language development, parenting challenges, mental well-being, and healthy relationships.
You will be supporting the Start for life and family hub Programme which supports a shared ambition that Norfolk is a place where all children and young people can flourish. By joining up and enhancing existing services, we want to ensure all children, young people and their parents and carers can access the early support they need when they need it. The first 1,001 days from conception up to the age of two are a critical time in the development of a baby and child's life. The Start for Life offer in Norfolk provides support to parents and carers during this period with a vision that "All babies, children and families are supported and empowered to have a healthy, happy and safe start for life, ensuring they Flourish before birth and beyond."
How you'll help to create brighter futures
You will be part of a supportive and dedicated team with opportunities for development. You will make a difference by:
- Supporting the development of children by creating fun and stimulating environments to enhance skills and promote emotional resilience and positive behaviour.
- Providing rich learning environments where children and their families can engage.
- Facilitating interventions one to one or in a group to support identified areas of need.
- Being alert to child protection and safeguarding issues and inform appropriate line managers.
- Engaging in local community groups to promote the service and support families to access targeted support.
- Form local partnerships with early years settings, libraries, and GPs to promote the service and support families to access targeted support.
Let's talk about you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with a passion for helping to create brighter futures. You will find full job description attached job description details the requirements of the role but the 'must-haves' are:
- Level 2 or above qualification in social care, health, education, or early years.
- Experience of delivering one to one or group support to children and families using the early years foundation stage (or similar).
- Good IT skills and ability to record concise, accurate case notes.
- Experience of working with children/young people and families.
- Flexibility to be able to work occasional evenings and weekends to meet the needs of the service.
- Ability and willingness to work in a variety of premises across the county (the role will be required to work across more than one district at times).
Good to know.
Application Process
Please note we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Closing date: 9th May 2024
Interviews will be held on 24th of May 2024
There are five sections to complete: Personal Details, CV, Supporting Statement & Information, Equality & Diversity, Submission & Declaration.
Talent Pool
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Diversity, equality and inclusion
At Action for Children, we're dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We actively encourage applications from Black, Asian & Minority Ethnic and disabled candidates as they are under-represented within Action for Children. We want to take deliberate and purposeful action to ensure equal opportunity to all groups in society and for Action for Children.
Don't meet every single requirement?
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with the job description, we'd love you to apply anyway. You might just be the perfect person for this role, or another role within the Action for Children family.
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