Sessional Children and Young People's Support Worker

1. Could you be the highly motivated individual we are looking for? We are looking to recruit a Sessional Worker to work across our services based at Barnardo's Swansea.
2. 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.
3. We provide Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development.

Contract: As & When

Could you be the highly motivated individual we are looking for? We are looking to recruit a Sessional Worker to work across our services based at Barnardo's Swansea. If you enjoy working with children and young people aged 9 to 25 years this could be the opportunity for you.

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 – emotional wellbeing support for children and young people aged 9 to 17 years

What does the Job Role involve?

As a sessional support worker you would be supporting young people across our range of services, this could be on a one to one basis or through group activities which regularly focus on emotional wellbeing and social integration. We are based in Penlan, our location and premises allow us to offer our children and young people a range of support and activities utilising our bespoke group rooms, one to one space, kitchen and garden.

It essential that you have the following:

• Experience of direct work with children and young people in a relevant setting
• An understanding of issues that impact the wellbeing of children and young people
• An understanding of the needs of young people as they transition to independence
• Experience of organising and supervising group work activities
• The ability to travel to meet the requirements of the post

Additional Information:

This is an 'As and When' post. Barnardo's will endeavour to offer you employment in the capacity set out above from time to time. However, there will be periods when no work is available. We have no obligation to you with any work, or to provide any minimum hours of workin any day or week. In addition, you are not required to accept work offered by us to you. 

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

Benefits

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