Wellbeing Project Worker

We are launching an exciting new service in Swansea supporting the emotional wellbeing needs of young people aged 9 to 17 years in partnership with the Penderi Health Cluster.

We are looking to recruit a Project Worker to our Barnardo's Wellbeing Service based at Barnardo's Swansea. Could you be the highly motivated individual we are looking for?

What is Barnardo's Swansea?

At the core of all Barnardo's Swansea Services we recognise the importance in building children and young people's self-confidence, resilience and emotional wellbeing.

Our services include:

• Youth Homelessness Prevention – advice and support for those at risk of homelessness
• Bloom - Life coaching and befriending
• Supported Lodgings – providing supported accommodation with a host family
• Transition and Training Flats Service – independent living experiences and life skills support
• Barnardo's Wellbeing Service

Barnardo's Wellbeing Service

Barnardo's Wellbeing Service is a brief intervention service that is integrated within the Penderi Health Cluster, supporting young people aged 9 to 17 years with their emotional wellbeing. It also provides support to a young person's support network (family, carers, partners), should it be identified that family needs are having an impact on the young person, or if they require guidance on understanding and managing the young person's needs. Support will be delivered via one to one sessions and group activities.

Barnardo's Wellbeing Service will support young people with a range of issues impacting their wellbeing including, but not limited to,:

• Bereavement and loss
• Parental separation
• Exam stress and school transition
• Managing emotions
• Difficulties at home or school
• Building positive relationships
• Difficulty sleeping

What does the role involve?

As the service Project Worker you will meet with the child/young person and their family to assess their needs and create a bespoke support plan for the child/young person building on existing strengths and skill sets. You will facilitate communication and engagement with children, young people and their families using a range of approaches including one to one support sessions and group activities. You will be confident in identifying safeguarding concerns and raising them appropriately in line with service policy.

You will develop and strengthen links with the Penderi Cluster GP surgeries and network with local agencies to identify appropriate sources of ongoing support for the child, young person or their family at the end of the intervention, this will include promoting the service at local wellbeing events. You will also be responsible for keeping service data and tracking outcomes.

Role requirements

You will have (essential criteria):

• Experience of supporting children and young people in a relevant setting
• Knowledge and understanding of issues that impact the wellbeing of children and young people
• Experience of developing support plans and tracking outcomes
• Experience of developing and delivering 1:1 and group work programmes
• Experience of working cooperatively with a range of agencies
• Knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and young people.
• Ability to travel to meet the requirements of the post

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

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.