Sessional Children and Young People's Support Worker

Could you be the highly?motivated?individual we are looking for?

We are looking to recruit a Sessional Worker to work across our services based at Barnardo's Swansea. If you enjoy working with children and young people aged 9 to 25 years this could be the opportunity for you.

What is Barnardo's Swansea?

At the core of all Barnardo's Swansea Services we recognise the importance in building children and young people's self-confidence, resilience and emotional wellbeing.

Our services include:

• Youth Homelessness Prevention - advice and support for those at risk of homelessness
• Bloom - Life coaching and befriending
• Supported Lodgings - providing supported accommodation with a host family
• Transition and Training Flats Service - independent living experiences and life skills support
• Barnardo's Wellbeing Service - emotional wellbeing support for children and young people aged 9 to 17 years

What does the Job Role involve?

As a sessional support worker you would be supporting young people across our range of services, this could be on a one to one basis or through group activities which regularly focus on emotional wellbeing and social integration. We are based in Penlan, our location and premises allow us to offer our children and young people a range of support and activities utilising our bespoke group rooms, one to one space, kitchen and garden.

It essential that you have the following:

• Experience of direct work with children and young people in a relevant setting
• An understanding of issues that impact the wellbeing of children and young people
• An understanding of the needs of young people as they transition to independence
• Experience of organising and supervising group work activities
• The ability to travel to meet the requirements of the post

Additional Information:

This is an 'As and When' post. Barnardo's will endeavour to offer you employment in the capacity set out above from time to time. However, there will be periods when no work is available. We have no obligation to you with any work, or to provide any minimum hours of workin any day or week. In addition, you are not required to accept work offered by us to you.

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