Early Years Senior Team Lead

Do you have a passion for working with young children? Are you interested in supporting children and their parents in their child\’s early stages of development? Are you great at interacting with parent/carers and coming up with different and innovative ways to support children\’s development and increase parent\’s confidence? Have you been working in Early years for a while and looking to take the next step? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you in our Early Years Team at Sandwell Family Hubs As Early years senior you will have the opportunity to support and line manage team members alongside delivering Early years sessions. This role will be hub and community based ensuring that our support reaches children and their families in the place where they are most comfortable. As part of the role you will be needed to support sessions on an evening and weekend as and when required. We are looking to appoint an experienced Practitioner with the experience of line management roles and responsibilities. If you would like an informal chat about the role then please contact Rachel Jesson () Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31 March 2026 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31 March 2026. 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. 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. Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. 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 ~ T&C\’s apply based on contract 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.