Community Early Years Worker

Location:

Sandwell Contract type:
Permanent (Fixed term funded post) End date: 31/03/2029

Hours:

25 Salary: £26003.00 FTE Closing Date: 25 June 2026 Do you have a passion for working with young children? Are you interested in supporting children and their parents in the earliest stages of development? Are you confident in building relationships with families and finding creative ways to support children's learning while increasing parental confidence? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our Early Years Team within Sandwell Best Start Family Hubs.

As a Community Based Early Years Worker, you will play a key role in supporting and developing community-led Stay & Play provision across Sandwell. You will work directly with community groups, volunteers and families to enhance the quality of early years experiences, with a strong focus on communication and language, school readiness and the home learning environment. This is a varied and rewarding role that involves both community and Family Hub-based delivery.

You will help strengthen existing groups, support new provision to grow and ensure families are connected to the wider Family Hub offer. You will:
Work alongside community providers and volunteers to develop and improve Stay & Play sessions Support welcoming, inclusive environments that promote early learning and development Encourage and embed positive Home Learning Environment messages with families Build strong relationships with parents, carers and partners across the Family Hub Network Capture feedback and outcomes to demonstrate the impact of the service Work collaboratively with multi-agency partners including Best Start Family Hubs, Family Help, SCVO and the Local Authority Early Years Team This role is based in Sandwell and requires flexibility to work across the borough.

As part of the role, you will be required to work evenings and weekends where needed to meet service demand. We are looking for an experienced Early Years Practitioner who is passionate, motivated and confident working within community settings.

Experience of partnership working and delivering high-quality early years provision will be essential. To find out more about the role, please read the Additional Information and ensure your application demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the post. 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. 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 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) 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 Buy Your Leave scheme A host of family friendly leave options including company…