TYS Assistant Worker (Multiple Posts) | £25,583 - £25,989 pro rata

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Directorate: Childrens Services | Service: Early Start, Prevention & Sufficiency

Salary: £25,583 - £25,989 pro rata

Working Arrangements: Monday-Friday evenings

Hours per week: 2.5 - 12

Contract type: Permanent

Closing date: Ongoing

The successful candidate will be required to speak English to an appropriate standard.

This post requires an Enhanced DBS Check

If you are currently living overseas or have lived overseas in the last five years please be aware, if you are the preferred candidate for the post, you will be required to apply for an overseas criminal records check from the country/countries you have resided in. If you experience difficulty in obtaining an overseas criminal record check please email dbs@barnsley.gov.uk

When applying, please ensure you are prepared to start work with all the necessary legal documents, such as a valid visa, relevant to the type of work you will be undertaking. Please be aware that our organisation does not possess a Home Office license and, as a result, is unable to provide sponsorship for anyone seeking a visa as a skilled or temporary migrant worker.

Pensions Regulations have provisions to reduce pension payments in certain circumstances of those who return to work within local government service. If you are in receipt of a pension upon commencing employment with the authority, this may affect your pension entitlements and you should therefore seek advice from the relevant Pensions Authority.

At Barnsley Council you can start a career that makes a real difference to people’s lives, helping our council and residents to be the best they can be.

We’re an award-winning council and one of the biggest employers in the borough, supporting around 243,000 people. We put people at the heart of everything we do, and that includes our employees. As part of the team, we offer lots of benefits and rewards to support you to thrive and grow, like flexible working, employee discounts, support for your health and wellbeing, and opportunities for training and development to grow your career and develop your skills.

There’s so much happening in our thriving borough, and now’s the perfect time to join our excellent Early Start, Prevention & Sufficiency team as we work to make Barnsley the place of possibilities.

• We’re an award-winning team and one of the biggest employers in the borough supporting around 243,000 people.
• Working at Barnsley Council means being part of a team that makes a real difference to people’s lives, where you can develop the skills you need to make change happen.
• If you join the team you’ll receive great pay alongside an excellent pension scheme. With flexible working we’ll also support your work/life balance, helping you to adjust your hours and take time off when you need it.
• We’ll help you to develop your career and grow your skills with opportunities for training and development.
• There’s so much happening in our thriving borough and your talent and skills will help us make Barnsley the place of possibilities.
• Key to our success is working with our residents, partners, businesses and organisations and building these partnerships to bring about change in Barnsley.

About the Post:

Are you passionate in helping young people be the best they can be? Are you great at talking to young people and engaging them in activities and conversations?

Barnsley’s BYouth Young People’s Service work with young people between the ages of 11-19 (and up to 25 for those with additional needs) who may need support in making a positive transition to adulthood, through youth work practice and approaches. The BYouth service provides positive leisure time opportunities for young people to get involved in whilst promoting their personal and social development, helping them to make a successful transition into young adulthood.

Your role will be to assist in the delivery of issue based programmes using recreational activities and resources to support the engagement process.

You will work as part of a team to provide young people with trusted adult role models to support positive choices and decision making as part of our local youth offer. The work will involve working regular evenings and can be building based or detached / outreach.

We have a number of vacant sessional positions available operating Monday-Friday evenings across a 38 week delivery calendar which is determined by the service. Successful candidates can be flexible in the number of evenings they wish to work up to a maximum of 12 hours / or 3 evenings per week.

The post is peripatetic and can be deployed to locations across the Borough where there is an identified need.

Job Profile: Targeted Youth Support Assistant Worker Job Profile.pdf

Vacancy Exposure Profile: Exposure Profile.pdf

CV's are not accepted for this role.

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