Youth Skills worker (19636)

PW1 Youth skills worker

• Works with children and Young people delivering evidence-based support, demonstrate the difference made from Barnardo's Family Centre service towards the 10 supporting family outcomes


• Organises and holds an engaging Youth Panel, enabling young people to share their voice to positively influence their community and outcomes for Young people.


• Facilitates group-work with colleagues in the centre and within settings where needed, including local schools, community centres.


• Advocate for young people, being the point of contact when needed in the Family Centre.


• Develop online safety skills for young people and their families.


• Deliver universal and targeted interventions with children, young people and their families, on a one to one or group basis.


• Support volunteers and local groups within the service, ensuring that the voice of the child and young person is heard, influencing decision making and actions.


• Work in partnership with the wider team, youth services, local partners and stakeholders to ensure fully integrated service provision for older children and Young people


• To work in partnership with parents/carers to empower and enable them to achieve better outcomes for their young people. Observe and recognise a child, young person or family's behaviour, consider its context, and respond to any developmental or behavioural concerns. Demonstrates ability to assess and analyse family function, dynamics, routines and relationships within the family to help to identify the root causes of difficulties to inform the Early Help Assessment.


• To work in partnership with children's services, SEND services, signposting to health agencies and other community-based services to support positive outcomes for families.


• Commitment to learning to provide age specific support across 0-19/25 SEND agenda aligned with the expected service outcomes.


• Support the development of the Centres as a safe place for families to access for support and information.


• To apply safeguarding and child protection policy and procedures, record information in a timely way to ensure accurate and appropriate record keeping. Reflecting using Knowledge and experience of multi-agency working within formal systems of Child Protection.


• Deliver child exploitation early support education for families and local providers when needed


• Provide case studies to the Team Manager celebrating success and evidencing what is needed for Young people in the reach area


• Based in the family centre when needed ensuring a welcoming safe space for children, young people and families to access


• Follow health, safety and security policies and procedures in the working environment
  
  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., At Barnardo's we believe in children - no matter who they are, what they have done or what they have been through. Please read about our basis and values following the link below. You will be asked questions relating to them as part of the recruitment process for this role.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is reflected in our values and our practice, and we have invested in this area of our work to ensure that we can deliver on our commitments to be an inclusive employer. EDI is a key enabler of our purpose as a charity and we want to ensure that the diversity of our teams is reflective of the communities we serve and that we continue to learn and develop our work with a focus on inclusion. We particularly encourage applications from candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic Communities, candidates who are LGBT+ and Disabled candidates.

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