PW1 Children's Advocate

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.

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Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Children and Young People in the Barnardo's Jersey Advocacy Service Your Voice'?

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What is the Jersey Advocacy Service Your Voice'Service?

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The Advocacy service has been running on Jersey since 2017 and gives children and young people up to age 18 a voice in Child Protection, Child in Need and other meetings that make decisions about them.

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Objective of Service

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To give children a voice in meetings about them.

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What does the Job Role involve?

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Your duties will include:

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• Meet with children on a 1-1 basis to obtain their views.
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• Liaise with social workers and other professionals.
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• Liaise with schools to arrange meeting times and spaces.
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• Attend Child Protection, Child in Need or other meetings as required to ensure the voice of the child is heard
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• Ability to work on own initiative as well as in a team.
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• Recording of information on Barnardo's systems.
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You will have: (Essential Criteria)

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• Experience of multi-agency working on Jersey.
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• Ability to work on own initiative as well as in a team.
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• Experience of working with children and young people.
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• Ability to travel throughout the Island to meet the requirements of the role.
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Additional Information:

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Please include as much relevant detail in your application to demonstrate how you fulfil the requirements of our job role, as outlined above and in the Job Description/Personal Specification. Experience can be from previous employment, education, training, volunteering etc.

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Need more information?

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Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore are open to offering flexible working arrangements.

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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\n

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.

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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.

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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\n

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

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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.

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Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

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• 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.
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• 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
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• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
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• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
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• Service related sick pay from day 1
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• 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
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• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
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• Cycle2work scheme
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• Interest free season ticket loans
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• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
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• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
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• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
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• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
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• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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*T&C's apply based on contract

About Barnardo's\n

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

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