Family Support Worker

Locality: North Midlands

Butterfly Service is looking is looking for a part time (21 hours) Family Support Worker to work in our Butterfly service. The post is to cover Maternity leave up to August 2025.

For the past 19 years, the Butterfly service has provided family support to children and young people with life-limiting conditions and their families who are living in the city of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire areas. We work closely with hospital and community medical teams and take a holistic approach to meeting the needs of the child/young person and promoting the well-being and resilience of the whole family.

The aim of the Butterfly Service is to deliver a high level of practical and emotional support to the child/young person, their siblings, and their parents/carers.

Specific Responsibilities/Additional essential criteria of the Family Support Worker post• You will be able to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team - with colleagues, managers and other professionals to help provide high quality, bespoke support to families• Through experience of engagement and participation from service users, you will be able to assess, monitor and review families support requirements.• You will be able to provide support to individuals in their family home and within the community, offering practical help and advice along the child's/young person's journey in partnership with a wide range of medical professionals. • You will have experience of direct work with children, young people and families.• You will have a knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.• You will have an awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children, young people and families, especially disabled and/or life limited children.• You may need to work outside of usual office hours on occasion, during evenings to meet the needs of families.

2022

At Barnardo's, our purpose is to transform the lives of the UK's most vulnerable children and our vision is to realise Thomas Barnardo's dream of a world where no child is turned away from the help that they need.

Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Children and Young People in Barnardo's Butterfly Service?

The Butterfly Service provides support to children and young people with a life limiting condition and their parents, carers and siblings in the community. As a member of this small but friendly team, you will provide support from when a child receives a prognosis that they are life limited, through stages of transition or periods of crisis, and post bereavement, to enable children, young people and families to make choices, access appropriate mainstream services and be able to cope with challenges and changes as the child progresses along the palliative care pathway.

Your duties will include:• Visiting children and families at home, school or in hospital• Providing emotional support to family members• Helping families to access the support and services that they need• Advocating for children and their families to ensure their needs are heard

You will have: • Experience of direct work with children, young people and families.• Able to listen to and communicate effectively with children and young people • Knowledge of safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children• Able to work as part of a team.• Awareness of factors impacting on and issues facing vulnerable children young people and families, especially disabled and/or life limited children.

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.