Youth Support Worker

**Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2024?**

**Do you have a passion for engaging with children and young people?**

**Are you able to develop supportive relationships with young people within a groupwork setting, whilst introducing them to new experiences, working to increase their confidence, and ambition and to help them realise their own potential?**

**Our partnership with the Co-op is an exciting, innovative project where we are aiming to support over 750k young people, aged 10-25 years across the UK.**

**Our Barnardo's Co-op Partnership goals are**:

- **Improve mental wellbeing**:

- **Improve access to basic needs (food)**:

- **Improve access to opportunities**

We are recruiting a dynamic ‘As and When' Project Worker, who can support us to deliver our new service in Rhyl.

Our Rhyl service has been designed by young people, for young people.

The role is flexible with opportunities to support the team in running groupwork sessions designed to support and improve young people's mental wellbeing, access to food through cooking activities and support to run events that young people can access to develop skills and confidence.

Groupwork sessions will largely be running during evenings and during half terms.

**We are looking for applicants who are**:

- Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years.
- Inclusive, kind and non-judgemental in their approach to engaging with young people.
- Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
- Flexible to work evenings and weekends where required to meet the needs of the service.

**We reserve the right to close the vacancy before the advertised closing date should a suitable applicant be appointment.**
- 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.
- 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 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
- About Barnardo's
- At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.