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Job Description

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Support Worker – Supported Accommodation for Young People

Location: Lancashire (2a High Street & Mariners View)

Hours: Rota-based, including evenings, weekends, and bank holidays

Barnardo's is committed to helping young people aged 16–24 build the skills, confidence, and independence they need to thrive. We provide supported accommodation across Lancashire for young people who may be leaving care, have experienced homelessness, or face other challenges.

Our services offer a safe and supportive environment where young people can stay for up to two years, giving them the time and guidance to move on successfully to their own accommodation in a planned and coordinated way.

About the Services

2a High Street – 7 units of accommodation, staffed 24/7 by a dedicated team.

Mariners View – 11 self-contained flats with visiting support from our team.

Both services provide short-term housing and tailored support for vulnerable young people who are not yet ready to live independently.

About the Role - As a Support Worker, you will add to our existing bank of reliable and high quality workers to assist us in the delivery of these services. We regularly need additional staffing cover, particularly in the event of staff vacancies or illness, and wish to identify suitable individuals to provide this vital service. You will:

• Work as part of a rota covering 7 days a week, 365 days a year (shifts include 08:00–16:00, 11:00–19:00, and 14:00–22:00).
• Support young people to develop essential life skills, build confidence, and prepare for independent living.
• Ensure the safety and wellbeing of residents, sometimes working alone in a supported accommodation setting.
• Maintain accurate case notes and apply safeguarding policies at all times.

What We're Looking For

• Experience working with children or young people (formal employment not essential).
• Strong communication and listening skills.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and independently.
• Good IT and written skills for record-keeping.
• Commitment to safeguarding and child protection.

If you're passionate about supporting young people and want a role that is both challenging and rewarding, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now and help us continue to make a real difference!

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

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. xwzovoh For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.