Are you looking for a new opportunity supporting young people?
Can you build positive relationships with young people in group settings -
helping them explore new experiences, grow in confidence, and discover their
own strengths and ambitions?
Are you enthusiastic about developing excellent and inclusive services with
young people to enhance their, wellbeing, access to food and opportunities?
If so, we want you to join our team! We are recruiting a dynamic ‘As and When' Project Worker, who can support us to deliver our service in Burmantofts.
The Barnardo's Co-op Partnership is an exciting and innovative project where we are
aiming to support over 1 million young people to have positive futures.
You could be working alongside young people and empowering them to continually develop their co-designed service.
The service facilitates weekly sessions on Tuesdays after school and other sessions throughout the week providing opportunities where young people can:
1. Come together to make and share food
2. Play games and make friends
3. Feel included and safe to explore topics that matter to them
4. Take part in creative activities to enhance their wellbeing.
If you are:
5. Confident and creative in engaging and working alongside young people
6. aged between 10-25 years (including SEND)
7. Skilled in delivering groupwork sessions for young people.
8. Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
9. Able to work evenings and weekends to meet the needs of young people.
10. Able to work in partnership with Co-op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre
Then please apply for the As and When Worker 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.
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 HolidayPlus 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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