Waking Night Support Worker

4 weeks ago

Ilford, United Kingdom Barnardos Full time

Are you looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for a Waking Night Support Worker to join our Supported Accommodation Services in Lancashire on a full time, permanent basis.

About the Service:

Barnardo's are proud to provide supported accommodation to young people aged 16-24 across a number of sites in Lancashire. The service aims to provide young people with the skills, knowledge and confidence needed for independent living. The young people who live in our accommodation are from a range of backgrounds and are often either in care, in the process of Leaving Care or have experienced homelessness. Our services are staffed 24 hours a day by a dedicated team. Young people can live within our accommodation for up to 2 years so that they can move on successfully to their own accommodation in a planned and coordinated way.

Location:

2a High Street, Lancaster

This service provides 7 units of short-term accommodation-based housing and support to young people aged 16-25 who are vulnerable and unable to live independently in the community. This service also manages a shared 3-bedroom house in Lancaster where young people aged 18-25 live with visiting support from Barnardo's staff.

Working Pattern:

21:45pm – 8:15am (usually 4 shifts on, 4 shifts off however some flexibility may be required)

Our Service operates 7 days per week, 365 days per year.

Starting salary:

£23,920 per annum (More info regarding our pay and reward framework can be found below)

Essential Requirements to evidence in your written application:

Experience of working with Young People and/or vulnerable adults. Able to demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding. IT literate with the ability to accurately record information. Most importantly, you will need to enjoy the challenges and rewards of working with young people

Some of the main responsibilities include but are not limited to:

To lone work and to be awake throughout the night on site To safeguard the young people within the service, including reporting and responding to safeguarding disclosures and accessing support from relevant services and/or managers and/or emergency services when necessary. To ensure all young people adhere to the House Code To develop positive and professional working relationships with the young people to achieve positive outcomes through listening and one to one conversations. To undertake general housekeeping and domestic tasks to maintain living standards. To complete a handover process with the incoming staff each morning that highlights any issues or incidents that occurred during the night.

The successful candidate will have a planned induction and will participate in training including Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, Safeguarding, Emergency First Aid, Risk Assessment, Health & Safety.

There are always opportunities to develop your skills and get involved with different activities within the service. The successful candidate will be required to attend and participate in monthly supervision meetings with their line manager, an annual Performance & Development Review and be will be fully involved in our Team Meetings.

For more information about the role, please contact Sian Davis –

When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document (if applicable). This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

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

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 . 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 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.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band – this ensures that pay progression steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

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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