Senior Youth Support Worker

re you looking for a new opportunity for 2024?
Are you passionate about working with children and young people and supporting your colleagues to reach their full potential?
Are you enthusiastic about developing and coordinating 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 a Senior Youth Support Worker with both full-time and part-time opportunities available across 20 locations.
Location of this post: Brent
Initially, you will be working alongside Barnardo's colleagues and young people in the local area and supporting the Children's Service Manager to design and kick start the brand new co-designed service. This is an exciting and varied role that will evolve as the service develops.
Our Barnardo's Co-op Partnership goals are:
Improve mental wellbeing
Improve access to basic needs (food)
Improve access to opportunities
We are looking for applicants who are:
Experienced in overseeing and supporting the work of staff and volunteers in developing and delivering services to young people.
Confident and creative in coordinating services that engage and work alongside young people aged between 10-25 years.
Skilled in designing and delivering groupwork sessions for young people.
Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, with experience of applying safeguarding policies and procedures.
Flexible to work evenings and weekends where required to meet the needs of the service.
Able to develop and maintain positive working relationships with Co-op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre of all that we do.
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):
Barnardo's | Recruitment of Staff for Co-op Partnership by the Youth Advisory Group (youtube.com)
Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to funding currently to 31 December 2025 and therefore should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement. This contract is due to expire on 31 December 2025.
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 robyn.dunn@barnardos.org.uk South East and London Children's Service Manager
Please note that this job role is advertised at part time hours however, we are open to negotiating hours that are mutually agreeable.

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