Project Worker
| Posting date: | 14 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £20,393.92 to £23,781.02 per year |
| Additional salary information: | plus £312 Office at Home Allowance |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2025 |
| Location: | Nuneaton, Warwickshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Barnardo's |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 21299 |
Summary
Barnardo's Midlands Fostering Service is looking for a passionate and dedicated Project Worker to join our team and make a real difference in the lives of care-experienced young people and their foster families.
About the Role:
As a Project Worker, you'll play a vital role in supporting young people who have experienced care, working both 1-to-1 and in group settings to build relationships, confidence, and resilience.
In parallel, you'll work closely with foster carers, helping them to maintain and strengthen foster home stability through advice, emotional support, and proactive engagement.
This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same. You'll also take the lead in planning and delivering participation and social events, giving young people and carers a voice and creating opportunities for connection and celebration.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide tailored 1:1 support to care-experienced young people.
Facilitate group sessions and workshops to promote wellbeing, life skills, and peer support.
Collaborate with foster carers to strengthen relationships and maintain stable foster homes.
Support participation and engagement initiatives within the fostering service.
Organise and take part in social events and activities for young people and carers.
Work closely with colleagues and partner agencies to ensure holistic support.
What We're Looking For:
Experience working with children and young people, ideally those with care experience.
Strong understanding of fostering and the challenges faced by foster families.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and independently as well as part of a team.
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to attend the office approximately 2-3 times a month. The office is based in Halesowen.
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.
Pay & 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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
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 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.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
About the Role:
As a Project Worker, you'll play a vital role in supporting young people who have experienced care, working both 1-to-1 and in group settings to build relationships, confidence, and resilience.
In parallel, you'll work closely with foster carers, helping them to maintain and strengthen foster home stability through advice, emotional support, and proactive engagement.
This is a varied and rewarding role where no two days are the same. You'll also take the lead in planning and delivering participation and social events, giving young people and carers a voice and creating opportunities for connection and celebration.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide tailored 1:1 support to care-experienced young people.
Facilitate group sessions and workshops to promote wellbeing, life skills, and peer support.
Collaborate with foster carers to strengthen relationships and maintain stable foster homes.
Support participation and engagement initiatives within the fostering service.
Organise and take part in social events and activities for young people and carers.
Work closely with colleagues and partner agencies to ensure holistic support.
What We're Looking For:
Experience working with children and young people, ideally those with care experience.
Strong understanding of fostering and the challenges faced by foster families.
Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
Ability to work flexibly, creatively, and independently as well as part of a team.
Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people.
This is a hybrid role, with an expectation to attend the office approximately 2-3 times a month. The office is based in Halesowen.
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.
Pay & 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 in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.
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 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.
About Barnardo's
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT+, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.
Our basis and values
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.