Youth Support Worker

2 weeks ago


Ilford, United Kingdom Barnardos Full time

Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2024?

Are you passionate about working with children and young people?

Are you enthusiastic about developing excellent and inclusive services with young people to enhance their, wellbeing, happiness and opportunities?

Our new Partnership with the Co-op is an exciting innovative project where we aim to support over 750k young people, aged 10-25 years across 2 years.

To deliver this, we are recruiting for a team of Youth Support Workers with both full-time and part-time opportunities available across 20 locations.

Location of this post: Harlow

Initially, you will be working alongside Barnardo's colleagues and young people in the local area to design and kick start the brand new co-designed service. This is an exciting and varied role that will evolve as the service develops.

Our Barnardo's Co-op Partnership goals are:

Improve mental wellbeing Improve access to basic needs (food) Improve access to opportunities

We are looking for applicants who are:

Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years. Skilled in designing and delivering groupwork sessions for 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 Able to work in partnership with Co-op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre.

Session times are as follows:

Monday 5-7pm and Wednesday 6-8pm

In return for your commitment, you will be supported with meaningful and supportive 1:1's, ongoing personal development and opportunities to make positive change in young people's lives.

Our Co-op partnership Youth Advisory Group have made this film to support in recruiting the right staff for our in Community Services across the UK (link below):

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document.

For more information on our exciting partnership with the Co-op, please see our additional information sheet via the link below.

For an informal chat about the role, please contact Robyn Dunn on – South East and London Region Children's Service Manager 

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

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

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