Northern Ireland Regional Young Carers Service works with young people aged 8-18 who are caring for a relative at home and are impacted by that role.
Young carers may have a role in looking after a sibling with a disability, a parent with a physical or mental health problem or a family member who has been misusing substances.
The support offered to young carers and their families starts with an initial assessment following which agreement is reached on a range of supports including; individual work, peer support, focussed group work.
We are seeking to recruit a Team Manager to support the following:
Specific Post Holder Responsibilities
1. Raise Awareness: Promote greater understanding of the needs and experiences of young carers across the Northern and Western Trust areas.
2. Support Service Development: Collaborate with the Children's Services Manager to identify and pursue funding opportunities that enhance and sustain support for young carers.
3. Direct Support Work: Engage with children, young people, and their families on both a one-to-one and group basis. Use a range of interventions to assess needs, support wellbeing, and work toward positive, measurable outcomes.
4. Family Engagement: Partner with parents and carers to empower them in achieving improved outcomes for their children, fostering resilience and long-term support networks.
5. Policy development: collaborate with young carers and the policy team to influence decisions and elevate the profile of young carers.
6. Multi-Agency Collaboration: Work in close partnership with health services, children's services, and local community-based organisations to ensure a holistic and coordinated approach to support.
7. Safeguarding: Adhere strictly to safeguarding and child protection procedures, ensuring the safety and welfare of all children and young people involved in the service.
8. Record Keeping: Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of all work using Barnardo's electronic case management system.
9. Supervision & Mentoring: Provide supervision, support, and guidance to Project Workers, students, and volunteers, in line with Barnardo's policies and procedures.
10. Group work with young carers: supporting staff to set up and facilitate groups across both Trust areas, these may be during school holiday times and during the evenings.
Please see ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the Essential Criteria detailed in the attached Additional Information Sheet.
Post: Team Manager
Contract Type: Funded to 30 June 2027
Salary: £35,390.46 - £43,392.02 FTE
Hours: 29.6 hours per week
Location: Northern and Western Health Trust areas
Closing date: Midnight, 08 February 2026
Interviews to take place: TBC
Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Access NI with Child Barred List Check.
A waiting list will also be compiled for similar vacancies that may become available across Barnardo's NI over the next 12 months.
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
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, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.
11. 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.
12. 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
13. The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
14. A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
15. Service related sick pay from day 1
16. 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
17. Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
18. Cycle2work scheme
19. Interest free season ticket loans
20. Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
21. 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
22. Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
23. Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
24. Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer
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