Youth Support Worker
| Posting date: | 16 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £14.33 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 May 2025 |
| Location: | Rochdale, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 20822 |
Summary
Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2025?
Are you experienced in 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 As & When Youth Support Workers.
Location of this post: Rochdale (Ability/willingness to travel across the locality required)
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
Essential requirements to evidence in your application:
• Substantial experience in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years (either in a voluntary or paid capacity)
• Skilled and confident 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.
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 on our website):
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.
For more information on our exciting partnership with the Co-op, please see our additional information sheet via the link on our website.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Amy Leech at amy.leech@barnardos.org.uk - Children's Service Manager
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
As & When role
Are you experienced in 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 As & When Youth Support Workers.
Location of this post: Rochdale (Ability/willingness to travel across the locality required)
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
Essential requirements to evidence in your application:
• Substantial experience in engaging and working alongside young people aged between 10-25 years (either in a voluntary or paid capacity)
• Skilled and confident 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.
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 on our website):
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.
For more information on our exciting partnership with the Co-op, please see our additional information sheet via the link on our website.
For an informal chat about the role, please contact Amy Leech at amy.leech@barnardos.org.uk - Children's Service Manager
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
As & When role
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