Youth Support Worker
Are you looking for a new opportunity?
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?
If so, we are looking for a youth support worker to join our team!
The Co-op Partnership is an innovative project where you will be working alongside young people and empowering them to continually develop their co-designed service, Rise Up.
The service is based in Ely (Cardiff) and facilitates:
A weekly community fridge, where young people can access free food and learn about food and nutrition.A weekly wellbeing group where young people can talk about things that are important to them.
Half termly social kitchens where young people can connect, make new friends, cook and eat with other young people.
Opportunities for local young people to get involved with looking after their local area.
Opportunities for young people to develop confidence and skills.
We are looking for a youth support worker who is:
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, including issue-based sessions to support wellbeing and development.
Able to provide emotional and practical support to young people, in line with safeguarding policies and procedures.
Able to work evenings and weekends to meet the needs of young people.
Able to work in partnership with Co-op, Children's Services, key stakeholders and the community, whilst keeping young people at the centre.
If this sounds like it could be you, please apply for the youth support worker role!
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.
- 5 hours per week
For more information on our exciting partnership with the Co-op, please see our additional information sheet via the link below.
For an informal discussion, please call Jess Hanson, Children's Service Manager on 07729 300857 or email: jessica.hanson@barnardos.org.uk
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.
Pay and Reward Framework
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.