Family Support Worker

2 weeks ago


Abertillery, Blaenau Gwent, United Kingdom Barnardo's Full time

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.

Would you like to be involved in this unique opportunity to support Young People in the Achieving Change Together Plus Service, Barnardo's Cymru?

Who are the Achieving Change Together Plus Service?


The Barnardos Achieving Change Together Plus Service will provide support for disabled young people and their families, who live in Blaenau Gwent.

This service will extend the support that is currently provided by the Achieving Change Together Service (0-18)

Service Aims

  • Provide opportunities for young people to gain skills and confidence to lead happy and fulfilled lives.
  • Provide opportunities for young people and families to engage in their local communities, building their resilience and reducing isolation.
  • To work in partnership with other services and organisations to provide a holistic plan of support for the family.
  • Facilitate group work to promote skills development, confidence and independence.
  • To support and enable disabled young people and their families to access mainstream, specialist and community resources that meets their needs.
  • To promote and increase inclusion and accessibility within communities.

What does the Job Role involve?
As a project worker (PW1), your duties will include:

  • Utilising effective communication skills to engage young people and families to build collaborative relationships.
  • Supporting young people and families to identify strengths and prioritise support needs.
  • Planning, facilitating and evaluating groupwork programmes and one to one support.
  • Maintaining accurate recordings.
  • Celebrating achievements / successes.
  • Establishing, developing and maintaining productive working relationships with colleagues and other agencies.

You will have:

  • Experience of working with young people and their families.
  • Experience of undertaking assessments with young people and families to coproduce holistic support plans.
  • Experience of planning, facilitating and evaluating group programmes.
  • Knowledge and experience of safeguarding.
  • Ability to prioritise, organise, selfmotivate and work on own initiative.
  • Experience of partnership working with a range of voluntary and statutory agencies.

Additional Information:

Need more information?

  • 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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our _People & Culture_ Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role. _
  • 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 worklife balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
  • 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
  • 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
  • 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 roun


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