Community Based Early Years Senior

Community Based Early Years Senior - Black Country Locality

Family hubs are a place-based way of joining up locally in the planning and delivery of family services. They bring services together to improve access, improve the connections between families, professionals, services, and providers, and put relationships at the heart of family support. Family hubs offer support to families from conception and two, and to those with children of all ages, which is 0-19 or up to 25 for those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), with a great Start for Life offer at their core.

This service gives us a unique opportunity to support the setup of additional community led Early years settings alongside support existing settings. This service is developed and is looking for a strong individual to continue to the great work that has already started within community led settings.

Sandwell Locality

Barnardo's is proud to be part of the network to deliver Sandwell's Family Hubs across the Borough and additional services. The Community Based Early Years service will work closely with the Early Years teams within the Family Hubs and with partners across the Family Hub Network.

The service will provide a range of quality services linked to early years within the community covering all of Sandwell.

We are committed to delivering a robust offer for communities and families, designed to promote access to services, reduce barriers to engagement and build resilient communities.

The Community Early Years Senior will be integral to the relationship development with existing early years providers alongside new services. (for the purpose of this JD 'parents' includes parents, carers, co-parents and guardians).

Objectives/key activities - Community led Stay & Play

Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes i.e:

• To ensure at least 30% of stay and play volunteers complete Family hub training linked to Early Language and Home Learning, such as First words together programme or Making it REAL by March 2025.
• Increase the number of community led stay and plays by 20% by March 25.
• 50% of community stay and play groups to be part of the Family Hub Network within the first 6 months. This to increase by a minimum 5% month on month.
• Stay and Play groups to strengthen their session and environment to promote and improve early language. The provider to share examples of how this has been achieved and the impact on families. The target would be for a minimum of 12 groups to demonstrate this within the first six months, and a continuing 10% increase month on month.
• Stay and Play groups to strengthen their session and environment to promote the importance of the Home Learning Environment. The provider to share examples of how this has been achieved and the impact on families. The target would be for a minimum of 12 groups to demonstrate this within the first six months, and a continuing 10% increase month on month.
• To support and mentor students/volunteers as they are recruited to set up and deliver Community Early Years provision.
• Collate data to show the impact and outcomes of the service and supporting with reports and presentations
• Qualitative data to be collated each quarter (1 per town each quarter) showing the impact and outcomes of the service.

To work in a collaborative manner with Existing settings, volunteers, family hub partners, Early Help & SCVO

• Capture the voice and experience of the local community, parents & children and utilise this to inform and develop service delivery.
• To ensure the involvement of fathers and significant males.
• Work with the wider Family Hubs teams, including support for volunteers, to deliver activities and service specifics.
• To work alongside the SMBC Early Years Team in particular Children's Centre Teachers to support providers of early years services.

Working in collaboration with agencies to strengthen the exit strategy to ensure sustainable change.

To actively engage in reflective case and personal supervision, PDR's and be responsible for updating learning, implementing into practice and develop skills to meet service needs.

Work with the wider teams within Sandwell Family Hubs Offer to meet the needs of the service across the borough.

Evening and weekend work will need to be undertaken as required to meet the needs of the service.

Any other duties deemed appropriate within your job role to reflect the needs of the service.

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.