Youth Support Worker

Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2024?
Are you passionate about working with children and young people?
Are you enthusiastic about developing 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 for a team of Youth Support Workers with both full-time and part-time opportunities available across 20 locations.
Location of this post: Cardiff
Initially, you will be working alongside Barnardo's colleagues and young people in the local area 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:
Confident and creative in engaging and working 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, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
Flexible to work evenings and weekends where required to meet the needs of the service
Able to work in partnership with Co-op, Children's Services and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre.
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)
When completing your application please refer to your skills knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification, Job Description and Additional Information document.
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.
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 Jess Hanson on jessica.hanson@barnardos.org.uk – Cymru and South West Region 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.
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.
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.
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.

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