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
Sessions are currently delivered on Tuesday day time and Wednesday 3-7pm.
Our Barnardo's Co-op Partnership goals are:
1. Improve mental wellbeing
2. Improve access to basic needs (food)
3. Improve access to opportunities
We are looking for applicants who are:
4. Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years.
5. Skilled in designing and delivering groupwork sessions for young people.
6. Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
7. Flexible to work evenings and weekends where required to meet the needs of the service
8. Able to work in partnership with Co-op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre.
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
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
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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