Night Project Worker 1

Job description

Bay6, our Supported Housing Project for 16 - 24 year olds based in Leyland, Lancashire has an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic individual to join our passionate team. Are you committed to making a difference to the lives of young people? Are you up for a new opportunity and challenge?

Our young people say.....

'Bay6 is special in more than one way'

'It's a step to a brighter future'

'Staff taught me to believe in myself'

'It's like a second family to me'

The service is made up of 3 buildings across 2 sites:

Bay6 - 6 bedrooms with communal areas including staff offices

Haddon Lodge - 5 one bedroom flats

Belgrave Court - 6 one bedroom flats

Shift pattern: 9:30pm - 8:30am with a 30 minute unpaid break

The 37 hour post is 4 nights per week on a rota basis which covers Monday to Sunday. Based on a 4 on 4 off rota with another colleague

For more info regarding our pay and reward framework can be found below.

Our Mission statement

'To provide a safe, friendly and appropriate environment where young people are supported, enabled and empowered to prepare for independent living'

Objectives of Service:

Bay6 provides a safe environment to offer holistic approach to young people to enable them to gain and develop the skills needed to live independently through one to one support and group work. Support Workers work alongside the young people to assess their needs and goals and develop individual plans to ensure we are working together towards positive outcomes.

Some of the Key Responsibilities include:

• To lone work for parts of the shift and to be awake throughout the night on site.
• To ensure health & safety routines are carried out within the building.
• To safeguard the young people within the service.
• To record in line with Barnardo's recording policy.
• To ensure young people adhere to the rules of the service.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience of working with Young People and/or vulnerable adults.
• Able to demonstrate a good understanding of safeguarding.
• IT literate with the ability to accurately record information.

For more information about the role, please contact the service on 01772 641002

When completing your application please refer to the skills, knowledge and experience you have in relation to the Person Specification & Job Description.

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 appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, 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.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

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, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• 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.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave 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

*T&C's apply based on contract

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.