Short Breaks Support Worker

Short Breaks Support Worker (Project Worker 1) - Liverpool Short Breaks Service

About Us: Barnardo's Liverpool Short Breaks Service is a newly commissioned service by Liverpool City Council, designed to provide essential Short Breaks for children and young people aged 8-18 with special educational needs and disabilities. Our service aims to support families by offering quality play and leisure activities while providing parents with much-needed respite. We are seeking passionate individuals to join our team and make a difference in the lives of children and families in our community.

Job Description: We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated Support Worker's to join our team at Barnardo's Liverpool Short Breaks Service. As a Support Worker, you will play a vital role in delivering high-quality activity sessions to children and young people, ensuring they have fun, engage in meaningful activities, and receive the support they need. This role involves evening and weekend work during term time, with shifts transitioning to daytime hours during school holidays.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead activity sessions for children and young people, maintaining a high standard of service.
• Liaise with parents and manage group bookings.
• Plan and deliver engaging activities suitable for the age range and needs of participants.
• Ensure all necessary paperwork, including risk assessments, consent forms, and behaviour management plans, are completed and up-to-date.
• Record outcomes for young people and maintain accurate records of session activities.
• Participate in data collection for monitoring and evaluation purposes.
• Supervise bank staff as required.
• Maintain compliance with health and safety regulations, ensuring Ofsted requirements are met.
• Drive vehicles for group transport when necessary.

Requirements:

• Previous experience working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities is desirable.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to plan and deliver engaging activities suitable for diverse age groups and abilities.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and daytime shifts during school holidays.
• A valid driver's license and the ability to drive vehicles for group transport is advantageous.

Please refer to the supporting documents for further details regarding the role expectations.

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.

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. 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 1st April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a key pillar of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to grow and develop in their career at Barnardo's as it will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues to progress through the pay band of their role.

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 progression 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.

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.

• 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.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing after 5 years service
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our HolidayPlus scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• 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
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

• T&C's apply based on contract