Senior Sessional Worker
| Posting date: | 28 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £15.00 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Location: | N3 3ED |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Norwood |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 276076JCP |
Summary
Salary: £15 per hour
Job Level: 5A
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 20 hours per week
Shifts: Term Time: Monday – Thursday & Sunday (including some evening work). School Holidays: Monday – Friday.
Accountable to: Hub and Short Breaks Operations Manager
Department: Children and Family Services
Location: The Hub, Finchley
Do you have experience of working as part of a team to influence and motivate colleagues around you to deliver high quality, responsive, holistic services for neurodivergent children and young people? Are you enthusiastic, with a supportive mentality who enjoys variety by also contributing to the development of operational outcomes? If so, the Senior Sessional Worker role may be of interest to you!
About The Hub and Short Breaks service:
For over 20 years Norwood has run a Short Break service called Unity for young people on Sundays and during school holidays. Many families have benefited from this service, and it remains popular with families and local authority commissioners. There is a waiting list of children and young people across Barnet and Herts who wish to access this provision.
That’s why as part of our recently launched strategy, we’re expanding the Short Break Service offering, to support families and young people with a variety of choice and cohort-based opportunities including after school clubs. The opening of the Hub allows the expansion of activities throughout the week, term-time, and during school holidays, evenings and weekends.
With a recent refurbishment, we can now offer a location dedicated to supporting children throughout the week. The building has outdoor space, a sensory room, kitchen, activity rooms and multipurpose spaces which allow children the opportunity to thrive in a bespoke space for them.
The Children and Family Service Department will deliver an ambitious Whole Family Centred, Strengths and Needs Based Model to empower children, young people, and their families. This expert-led coordinated approach underpinned by robust governance and outcome and impact measures will seek to ensure families with a neurodivergent or neurodevelopmentally disabled child can realise their full potential and thrive. The objectives for each team member will be clear, ensuring a meaningful and positive impact on those accessing the services, with consistency in support and communications, and the ability to access services required effectively.
About the role:
This is one of a number of new vacancies being recruited as part of a dedicated team for the further development of the Hub and Short Breaks offering to extend the reach to more children and young people throughout the week.
As a Senior Sessional Worker, you will work closely with the Hub and Short Breaks Operations Manager to ensure Norwood offers a flexible, fun and exciting provision for neurodivergent children and young people and those with a neurodevelopmental disability from ages 5-25.
You will drive and support the development of the future of our Short Breaks provision with innovative ideas for our weekday, weekend and holiday programmes, ensuring Norwood continually responds to the wishes, aspirations and needs reflected by the young people we support to offer a meaningful, flexible and creative offer. You will design, develop and deliver creative choice and cohort-based sessions, whilst working within the framework of OFSTED to ensure quality and compliance.
Benefits at Norwood include:
The opportunity to work for a leading UK charity
Competitive salary & benefits package
21 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and Jewish festivals where they fall on a working day and work is not permitted (FTE)
1pm finish on a Friday
Workplace Pension Scheme: Plan for your future with confidence.
Employee Assistance Programme: We care about your well-being.
£300 When You Introduce a Friend: Spread the word and reap the rewards.
Free Eye test & Eyewear allowance
Access to ‘Blue Light’ discount scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Excellent career progression pathway
Enhanced benefits coming in July 2025
Essential skills and experience:
Ability to commit to 20 hours per week, including evenings and Sundays
Experience of designing and delivering innovative, high quality, responsive, holistic services for neurodivergent children and young people as part of a team
Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and organisations
Recent experience of working within regulatory frameworks (Ofsted, CQC contract compliance etc)
An appropriate qualification at Level 3 or equivalent
Knowledge and understanding of the range of interventions and approaches that can be used to support disabled children and young people
An understanding of various communication aids including Makaton, PECS, AAC etc
Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures
A team player who enjoys supporting others to achieve shared goals
Excellent communication skills with a flexible style to communicate with people in a form and manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating
Ability to anticipate and identify potential gaps in service delivery and take appropriate action to self-rectify
Experience using observation to inform assessment and planning
Excellent time management skills who can work under pressure to meet deadlines
Flexibility, initiative and the ability to respond appropriately to child and family needs
Excellent active listening and problem-solving skills
Embraces change and responds positively to new opportunities
Job Level: 5A
Job Type: Permanent
Hours: 20 hours per week
Shifts: Term Time: Monday – Thursday & Sunday (including some evening work). School Holidays: Monday – Friday.
Accountable to: Hub and Short Breaks Operations Manager
Department: Children and Family Services
Location: The Hub, Finchley
Do you have experience of working as part of a team to influence and motivate colleagues around you to deliver high quality, responsive, holistic services for neurodivergent children and young people? Are you enthusiastic, with a supportive mentality who enjoys variety by also contributing to the development of operational outcomes? If so, the Senior Sessional Worker role may be of interest to you!
About The Hub and Short Breaks service:
For over 20 years Norwood has run a Short Break service called Unity for young people on Sundays and during school holidays. Many families have benefited from this service, and it remains popular with families and local authority commissioners. There is a waiting list of children and young people across Barnet and Herts who wish to access this provision.
That’s why as part of our recently launched strategy, we’re expanding the Short Break Service offering, to support families and young people with a variety of choice and cohort-based opportunities including after school clubs. The opening of the Hub allows the expansion of activities throughout the week, term-time, and during school holidays, evenings and weekends.
With a recent refurbishment, we can now offer a location dedicated to supporting children throughout the week. The building has outdoor space, a sensory room, kitchen, activity rooms and multipurpose spaces which allow children the opportunity to thrive in a bespoke space for them.
The Children and Family Service Department will deliver an ambitious Whole Family Centred, Strengths and Needs Based Model to empower children, young people, and their families. This expert-led coordinated approach underpinned by robust governance and outcome and impact measures will seek to ensure families with a neurodivergent or neurodevelopmentally disabled child can realise their full potential and thrive. The objectives for each team member will be clear, ensuring a meaningful and positive impact on those accessing the services, with consistency in support and communications, and the ability to access services required effectively.
About the role:
This is one of a number of new vacancies being recruited as part of a dedicated team for the further development of the Hub and Short Breaks offering to extend the reach to more children and young people throughout the week.
As a Senior Sessional Worker, you will work closely with the Hub and Short Breaks Operations Manager to ensure Norwood offers a flexible, fun and exciting provision for neurodivergent children and young people and those with a neurodevelopmental disability from ages 5-25.
You will drive and support the development of the future of our Short Breaks provision with innovative ideas for our weekday, weekend and holiday programmes, ensuring Norwood continually responds to the wishes, aspirations and needs reflected by the young people we support to offer a meaningful, flexible and creative offer. You will design, develop and deliver creative choice and cohort-based sessions, whilst working within the framework of OFSTED to ensure quality and compliance.
Benefits at Norwood include:
The opportunity to work for a leading UK charity
Competitive salary & benefits package
21 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays and Jewish festivals where they fall on a working day and work is not permitted (FTE)
1pm finish on a Friday
Workplace Pension Scheme: Plan for your future with confidence.
Employee Assistance Programme: We care about your well-being.
£300 When You Introduce a Friend: Spread the word and reap the rewards.
Free Eye test & Eyewear allowance
Access to ‘Blue Light’ discount scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Excellent career progression pathway
Enhanced benefits coming in July 2025
Essential skills and experience:
Ability to commit to 20 hours per week, including evenings and Sundays
Experience of designing and delivering innovative, high quality, responsive, holistic services for neurodivergent children and young people as part of a team
Experience of working in partnership with other agencies and organisations
Recent experience of working within regulatory frameworks (Ofsted, CQC contract compliance etc)
An appropriate qualification at Level 3 or equivalent
Knowledge and understanding of the range of interventions and approaches that can be used to support disabled children and young people
An understanding of various communication aids including Makaton, PECS, AAC etc
Knowledge and understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures
A team player who enjoys supporting others to achieve shared goals
Excellent communication skills with a flexible style to communicate with people in a form and manner that is consistent with their level of understanding, culture, background and preferred ways of communicating
Ability to anticipate and identify potential gaps in service delivery and take appropriate action to self-rectify
Experience using observation to inform assessment and planning
Excellent time management skills who can work under pressure to meet deadlines
Flexibility, initiative and the ability to respond appropriately to child and family needs
Excellent active listening and problem-solving skills
Embraces change and responds positively to new opportunities