Residential Project Workers - Ballymena and Belfast Antrim, Northern Ireland
Job description
Barnardo's sets very high standards for the work we do with the children, young people and families we support. We demonstrate every day through our work that we believe in children and we only want people to work with us who share our belief.
We are recruiting for a permanent Residential Project Worker role within our Leaving Care Service in Belfast.
The Leaving Care Service aims to build relationships with care leavers to ensure aspirational goal-setting for moving towards independence. As a Residential Project Worker you will become not only part of the Barnardo's family, you will also become an extension of the care we work hard to bring to the lives of the children, young people and families we support.
The Residential Project Worker's (RPW) role is to co-keywork and support the assessment of young people's strengths and needs and the implementation of individual support plans, designed to maximize the potential for achieving independent living. RPW's have specific responsibility for designated young people and will complete work in partnership with the Keyworker and wider team to help young care leavers develop skills and abilities that will enable them to maintain their tenancy within the supported living accommodation and beyond. This will be achieved through informal day to day contact with young people as well as planned pieces of 1-1 work undertaken at times that fit with their commitments in relation to training, education or employment.
All staff will be suitably qualified, experienced, trained and supported as well as able to work consistently and professionally as a team. Staff will promote the therapeutic use of continual positive regard, so that young people feel valued, accepted and empowered to make decisions and learn through positive risk taking.
Service Specific Shortlisting Criteria
- Demonstrable experience of working with young people aged 16-21 years old, this does not have to be gained in formal employment
- Demonstrable experience of working with issues and factors facing care experienced young people (e.g. trauma, disadvantage, exploitation)
- Demonstrable experience of working as a team member to achieve collective aims for young people.
- Demonstrable experience of recording and sharing information with relevant others (e.g. Social Workers, PSNI)
Successful candidates will be required to register with Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC)
Please ensure that you outline on your application how you meet the required criteria listed in the attached Additional Information Sheet.
In return Barnardo's offers a reward package that includes a competitive salary, 26 days annual leave and 10 statutory/public holidays (pro-rata) per annum, a contributory pension scheme, an additional holiday purchase scheme and staff discounts.
Residential Project Workers work on a rolling rota basis is within the Leaving Care Service. Rota includes evening, weekend and sleep-in shifts.
Location: Annadale Avenue, Belfast, BT7 3JH
Hours: 24.5 hours per week excluding sleepovers
Starting Salary: £23,920 pro rata Sleep-in Allowance additional £62.64 per night
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 2nd October 2023 at midnight
Interviews: Friday 6th October 2023 at Northern Ireland Regional Office (candidates will be contacted prior to interview)
Contact Email: [email protected]
A waiting list will be held in the event that similar vacancies arise during the next 12 months
The successful candidate will also be required to undertake an Enhanced AccessNI Child and Adult Barred List check
