Senior Keyworker

Barnardos; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children’s charity in Greater Manchester seeks a Senior Keyworker to support children and young people with Learning Disabilities and Autism. You will work closely with families, building positive relationships and ensuring their needs are met flexibly. This dynamic role requires excellent communication and safeguarding skills, with opportunities for training and career development. The position offers flexible working hours, including evenings and weekends, to suit families' needs, focusing on providing exceptional support.

Benefits

Annual leave up to 30 days

Flexible working arrangements

Discounts and cashback on high street stores

Qualifications

• Significant experience in supporting children with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism & Mental Health needs.
• Ability to ensure the voice of the child and family is central.
• Robust safeguarding knowledge and good recording skills.

Responsibilities

• Build positive and meaningful relationships with children and young people.
• Support families at times that suit their needs, including evenings and weekends.
• Manage your own diary to provide tailored support.

Skills

Experience with children with Learning Disabilities

Excellent communication skills

Team working skills

Safeguarding knowledge

Ability to present to a range of people

Job description

Senior Keyworker – Greater Manchester Keyworking Service for Children and Young People with a Learning Disability / Autism (up to the age of 25 year)

Barnardo's Greater Manchester Keyworking Service for Children and Young People with a Learning Disability / Autism (up to the age of 25 year)

Are passionate about children and young people with Learning Disabilities and / or Autism having the right support, at the right time, in the right way, to remain living where possible in the community, avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions? We have opportunities across our Greater Manchester Keyworking Service in the following teams, Bury, Rochdale & Oldham, Tameside & Stockport, and Bolton & Wigan and a peripatetic role supporting across GM.

Key Requirements

• Significant experience in supporting children with Learning Disabilities and / or Autism & Mental Health needs.
• The ability to ensure the 'voice' of the child and family is central, enabling lived experience to create change.
• Excellent team working skills. You will work as part of a service that covers the whole of Greater Manchester.
• The ability to collaborate with and confidently present information to a range of people, respectfully addressing issues on behalf of CYP and their families.
• Excellent communication skills, enabling communication with children, young people, families and professionals.
• Robust safeguarding knowledge and good recording skills.
• A car available for work with business insurance.

There are lots of opportunities to develop your skill set, knowledge and career progression going forward. The service has a comprehensive training offer including core competencies through to bespoke training.

This service is dynamic, no two days are the same, however you will have a number of children and young people who you will build positive and meaningful relationships with. You will manage your own diary with families, providing support at a time that suits their needs. This means you will be working some evenings and if required occasional weekends. In return you will manage your hours so may benefit from later starts or earlier finishes.

Barnardo's has a generic job description / person specification. When completing your application please provide examples in the context of the advert and additional information sheet as to how you meet the requirements of the role. For more information regarding the role of the keyworking service please see .

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. 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 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 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.