Are you passionate about keeping children safe?
Are you able to work with children and young people using a trauma informed approach?
We are currently seeking a part time (3 days per week) Project Worker 2, with a counselling level 4 qualification or equivalent, to join our therapeutic counselling Service. The service is available to children and young people across Swindon and Wiltshire, who have experienced sexual harm. This is an exciting opportunity to support some of the most vulnerable, at risk and hard to engage young people within our local area.
The main office base for the service is located at Nexus Business Centre in Swindon. However, the service is available to children and young people across Swindon and Wiltshire. The service aims to offer children and young people support in a rage of locations such as schools and community centres, so the ability to travel throughout Swindon and Wiltshire is essential.
You will have received a Project Worker 2 job description and person specification. This is a generic role in use throughout the organisation. When completing your application form please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description and also any further information in the Additional information sheet.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Directly support children and young people under 18, using a trauma informed approach, who have experienced sexual violence or abuse but either fall below the threshold for clinical services, or do not want to engage with them.
2. Hold a 1:1 counselling caseload for children and young people who have been victims of CSA.
3. Accurate case note recording
4. Multi-agency working, with both statutory and non-statutory services
5. Provid training and support for frontline professionals who are engaged with children and young people on a day-to-day basis. Training designed to improve professional's understanding, identification of issues, and effective responses
6. Provide telephone and face to face consultation to professionals
7. Attend Core Groups and Child Protection conferences where required
8. Keep up to date with national developments and approaches to sexual violence or abuse
Pre-employment checks will be required for the role
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. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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
11. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
12. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
13. Service related sick pay from day 1
14. 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
15. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
16. Cycle2work scheme
17. Interest free season ticket loans
18. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
19. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
20. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
21. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
22. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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