Ireland’s leading children’s charity is recruiting:

Programme Assistant Dublin

Location: Tivoli Terrace South, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin

Contract: Permanent and Part-time , 25 hours per week

Salary: €17,793-€21,441 DOE (this is the pro-rata salary for 25 hrs.)

Why work at Barnardos?

At Barnardos we seek to ensure that we have the best people working with us to support our work with children and families. The benefits of working with Barnardos are designed to promote continual professional development and a work-life balance for the most rewarding working experience.

• Barnardos offers a competitive salary – recognising the experience you bring to the role
• Generous annual leave entitlements
• Positive working environment with family friendly ethos and work - life balance policy
• Tax saver travel and bike to work schemes in operation
• Employee Pension scheme with employer contribution
• Training and Development
• Health and Wellbeing initiatives including Employee Assistance programme
• Company sick pay scheme

What does the Tivoli Early Years’ centre do?

The project seeks to improve child developmental outcomes for children aged birth to 5 years and to maximise the capacity of their families/carers to meet children’s needs by offering an Early Intervention service.
To achieve this, we provide targeted supports for individual children and a bundle of integrated family support services for their families. Specific attention is given to those families where child protection or welfare concerns exist.
The service is needs-led working with the most vulnerable and disadvantaged families and outcomes-focussed specifically focussing on parenting skills and child/parent relationships in order to reduce subsequent difficulties for children.

Our overall aims are:

• To increase children’s emotional wellbeing
• To improve children’s learning and development

We do this by providing a range of Hardiker level and 2 and 3 interventions in response to the individual assessed needs of children and their families referred to Barnardos.
Services include Infant and Toddler and Preschool programmes for children based on the High Scope and Tús Maith curriculum, Individual work with children, Individual home based parenting work for example Partnership with Parents (PwP), Parent/Child work, Practical Family Support, information and advocacy, and group work with parents and guardians, including a Parents’ Breakfast.

Tivoli is a busy centre with children and their parents/carers attending our Early Years’ and Preschool services on a daily basis and additional families attending the family support services.
We work to provide a response, which involves interagency collaboration in order to maximise outcomes for families.

Who do we work with?

Referrals are accepted from Tusla, the HSE, schools, and other agencies and individuals, as appropriate, including other Barnardos services and parents/carers themselves.

Job purpose

To provide a safe, child centred environment/experience to children in the context of the service in which you work and appropriate to the role.

Personal attributes

• Commitment to provide a quality service to children.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Awareness of confidentiality and the ability to deal with sensitive issues, including child protection concerns.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Flexibility and adaptability are essential attributes in this role.

Experience

• Experience of working with children for a minimum of 6 months is essential.
• Relevant voluntary work/work experience may be considered.

Qualifications

• A recognised qualification (minimum FETAC/ QQI level 5) that is approved under the Early Years (Pre-school) Regulations.

The post-holder is initially assigned to work in the Early Years’ Service in Tivoli, Dún Laoghaire, but may be required in the future to work in other project(s) in the Dublin area in line with Organisational needs. .

For full job description and to apply please visit Current Job Vacancies – Barnardos

Closing date: 12pm on 24 July 2024
Interview date: To be confirmed.

Shortlisting will apply (please note, CVs are not accepted on their own, candidates must complete and submit our application form through Barnardos website).

Barnardos is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all.