Supported Accommodation Services in Lancashire
Barnardo's provides supported accommodation to young people aged 16-25 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. Most of the services are staffed 24 hours per 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.
The service that this post links to is:
2a High Street
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, thereby enabling them to develop some of the skills required to move on successfully to more independent living or to return home to family, where this is a safe and appropriate outcome.
Moving On also manages a number of other properties where young people, aged 18-25, live with visiting support from Barnardo's staff. As part of your role, young people from these sites may contact you for assistance.
Working Hours
The successful candidate will work night, usually on a “4-on 4-off” basis, though some flexibility is required. The service operates 7 days per week and 365 days per year.
The Night Project Workers at this service work 21:30 – 08:30.
Specific Responsibilities
Our Night Project Workers perform a critical role within our services and are a vital part of the team. To be successful in this role you will need to have a range of skills and abilities, and most importantly you will need to enjoy the challenges and rewards of working with young people. 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 will be fully involved in Team Meetings.
The Job Description outlines some of the key responsibilities of this role. The successful candidate will need:
1. To lone work for parts of their shift and to be awake throughout the night on site, on a shift rota to cover 7 nights per week, Monday to Sunday
2. To safeguard the young people within the service - including reporting and responding to safeguarding issues and accessing support from relevant services and managers when necessary.
3. To ensure all young people adhere to the House Code.
4. To contact emergency services as required to deal with any relevant issue or incident.
5. To develop positive and professional working relationships with young people to achieve positive outcomes through listening and one to one conversations.
6. To have an open and flexible approach to working with young people and a good knowledge of how to positively manage behaviour that can challenge.To complete general housekeeping and domestic tasks to maintain living standards at the service including void room cleans, offices and communal area cleans.
7. To ensure the safety and well-being of young people during the night.
8. To ensure a safe environment by paying particular regard to building security including access to the building, monitoring of CCTV, fire drill arrangements and health & safety procedures for example regular inspections of communal areas during the course of the night.
9. To complete a handover process with incoming staff each morning that highlights any issues or incidents during the night.
10. To record telephone calls, incidents, conversations, repairs or faults on the system and ensure they are included in the handover process with day staff.
11. To contact service managers as necessary to report any urgent or serious issues or incidents.
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document. 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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our Strategy. 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.
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 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
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.
12. 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.
13. 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
14. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
15. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
16. Service related sick pay from day 1
17. 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
18. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
19. Cycle2work scheme
20. Interest free season ticket loans
21. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
22. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
23. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
24. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
25. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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