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Barnardo's Cymru is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Project Worker 2 to join our well-established Cyfle Children and Young People's Substance Use Service.

We are looking for a passionate and skilled practitioner to support children and young people facing challenges relating to substance use, mental health and emotional wellbeing. This rewarding role offers the opportunity to deliver meaningful interventions that help young people stay safe, improve their wellbeing and build brighter futures.

Funding/Hours Information

Permanent contract, subject to continued funding.
37 hours per week until 31 March 2027.
21 hours per week from 1 April 2027 until 31 March 2028.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

Delivering targeted prevention, early intervention and treatment services to children and young people.
Providing psychosocial interventions relating to substance use, mental health and emotional wellbeing.
Undertaking assessments and developing person-centred plans of support.
Identifying risk and making referrals to appropriate services where required.
Managing a caseload and delivering effective, evidence-based interventions.
Planning, reviewing and coordinating programmes of care.
Developing positive relationships with partner agencies and community organisations.

Some of the skills needed for this role

Experience delivering mental health, drug and alcohol psychosocial interventions to children and young people in a range of settings.
Experience assessing the needs of children and young people, using both initial screening and comprehensive assessment tools to inform support planning.
A good understanding of child development, safeguarding and child protection, with the ability to identify and respond to concerns appropriately.
Knowledge of risk assessment and risk management, including risks relating to mental health, substance use, self-harm and harm to others.
Experience of working effectively with partner agencies, building strong multi-agency relationships to achieve positive outcomes for children, young people and families.

Although this contract has a permanent status, please be aware that this post is subject to the successful candidate working 37 hours per week until 31 March 2027, after which the hours will reduce to 21 hours per week until 31 March 2028. Should this funding not be extended further, you may be subject to a redundancy consultation or a TUPE arrangement.

Interested?

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact: Gleny Ellis Children's Services Manager 📧 glenys.ellis@barnardos.org.uk

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

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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.

Our basis and values