This post will require the postholder to work flexibly across North East London with some home working, as well as attend meetings and delivery case work across North East London as required.
When completing your expression of interest please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.
History of service
Barnardo's was the first voluntary organisation to listen and respond to the needs of sexually exploited children across the UK. The London service began in 1996 and has improved outcomes for a very significant number of vulnerable children across the years, working in close multi agency partnership with relevant statutory and voluntary agencies.
We have established a trauma and evidence informed approach to our work which will be both innovative and child centred:
Objectives of service
TIGER stands for Trauma Informed Growth and Empowered Recovery; Barnardo's unique evidence-informed and evaluated trauma-informed approach. Currently we work with children, young people and their families where there are concerns around child sexual abuse and exploitation, harmful sexual behaviours or Domestic Abuse. The approach is designed to provide children and young people with the narrative to understand and express their experiences and coach them to recovery through empathetic listening, emotional regulation, positive psychology and personal goal-setting. We also work alongside safe primary caregivers to support the child to recovery.
So what does that mean in practice?
We…
- Currently work with any child under the age of 18 (25 where there are Disabilities)
- Provide a space in which they can express and explore their thoughts, feelings and trauma experiences.
- Coach children and young people to identify their strengths and find the resource within themselves to aid their recovery.
- Help children and young people to set goals for themselves and to regain some form of control and self-belief.
- Work with caregivers to help them understand how trauma affects their child
- Provide caregivers with the skills and tools to support recovery.
- Work with schools, community, faith groups and commercial establishments to raise awareness of trauma, exploitation and harmful behaviours
- Provide targeted group work support in schools and with community groups.
Initial specific responsibilities
Working with the North East London TIGER Service you will be part of a dynamic team delivering and developing the TIGER approach and our reach across London. You will support colleagues by working in an agile way providing a suite of interventions to support children, young people and their families across London where there has been an allegation, or strong suspicion of exploitation, abuse, exposure to violence and harmful behaviours.
As TIGER Practitioner your key responsibilities will be
- Providing direct services to children, young people and their care-givers in need of trauma recovery.
- Providing training to professionals around HSB, CSE, DA and Trauma Informed Practice
- Working closely with the TIGER managers to analyse and resolve problems and apply innovative solutions where no precedents exist
- Ensuring that children and young peoples are safeguarded at all times and your work is in accordance with safeguarding and child protection policies and procedures and you always promote the welfare of children
- Keeping contemporary and accurate recordings of your direct work in accordance with the TIGER Service “Service User Protocol”
- Contributing to the consistency of practice and assist with the identification and implementation of good practice across the team and organisation. This will include delivery of professionals training, supporting volunteers and the delivery of TIGER training
- Working with the TIGER managers to promote the TIGER Service, attend meetings as requested and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external partners
- Attending regular TIGER Service meetings and contributing to the quality of practice and the impact made on children, young people and/or families
- Creating a culture of safe, effective, inclusive and participatory practice within the TIGER Service
Supplementary information
The support will be delivered across London – in a blended model of face to face and digital; working between Barnardo's offices, schools, local authority sites and home.
You will be required to work flexibly in order to meet a range of demands in this role including relationship building; recording; delivering training; providing case consultation; engaging children with a broken sense of trust and managing robust professional boundaries.
An understanding of safeguarding and trauma recovery is critical to this role as well as experience in working with children and young people.
As a culturally competent and reflective practitioner your approach to working with children and young people will be child centred. You will be able to use your initiative in addition to working as part of a team and have excellent communication skills.
As a high performing practitioner in Children's Services, you will be responsible for recording and maintaining accurate service user records and you will ensure processes are followed with accurate information stored on the TIGER Service's data recording system.
Working in an inclusive, anti-racist and anti-oppressive framework, you will ensure this ethos exists, and is maintained and support colleagues' wellbeing.
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.
Benefits
Workplace offer: What it means for you
The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. 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, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.
- 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 at 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 apply based on contract
About Barnardos
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.
