Are you passionate about helping young people build confidence, develop new skills, and have their voices heard?
If you enjoy creating supportive relationships and empowering young people to make a real difference, this could be the role for you!
About the Role
As a Project Worker, you will work alongside the Voice and Influence Lead to help coordinate and deliver the programme, ensuring young people feel informed, valued and supported throughout their involvement.
A significant part of this role involves building relationships with young people online through group sessions and one-to-one support.
This is a youth participation and youth work role within a digital environment. While an interest in social media and digital engagement is helpful, the focus of the role is supporting young people to participate, develop skills, and have meaningful influence.
Your Typical Week Might Include
- Delivering an online group session with Young Content Creators
- Meeting individually with young people to offer support and encouragement
- Planning upcoming workshops or residential activities
- Recording participation and project outcomes
- Working collaboratively with colleagues across the UK
- Supporting young people to develop ideas and creative content
- Attending team meetings and contributing to project planning
What We're Looking For
Are you someone who:
- Is passionate about supporting young people to build confidence, develop skills, and achieve their potential
- Enjoys creating safe, supportive spaces where young people feel heard and valued
- Has strong communication skills and can engage young people through online group sessions and one-to-one support
- Is organised, proactive, and able to balance planning activities, delivering sessions, and supporting participants throughout their journey
- Is committed to helping young people influence decisions, create opportunities, and drive positive change
We want to hear about the unique strengths you'll bring to the role. If you believe you can make a positive impact, we'd love to hear from you!
Why This Role Matters
- This is an exciting opportunity to support young people across the UK to build confidence, develop digital skills and influence the work of a nationally recognised partnership.
- You will play an important role in helping young people connect with one another, share their experiences, develop new opportunities and create content that supports other young people to access advice, guidance and positive futures.
- By joining the team, you will help ensure that young people's voices continue to shape the future of the Barnardo's and Co-op partnership.
“I feel this programme has changed my life and values me as a creator and a volunteer as well. It empowers young people to have a voice and inspire others with tips and advice from the lived experiences we face.” - Young Content Creator
For more details about this role, please see attached PW1 job description and additional information sheet.
For an informal discussion about the role please contact:
Madel Asuncion
Voice & Influence Lead
madel.asuncion@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
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.
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
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.
- Reference number:23901
- Job Title:Youth Worker (Young Content Creators Programme)
- Location:Workplace offer: Hybrid working, Barnardo's hub/office or home address based in the UK
- Contract type:Fixed term
- End date:Up to 2 years, minimum of 12 months
- Hours:30
- Salary:£26,003 - £27,592 FTE (£21,083.51 - £22,371.89 pro rata) plus Office at Home Allowance £312 per annum
- Closing Date:27 October 2026
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