*Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Team*
Post: Keyworker - Short Stay Break Service Maternity Cover - NI40/06/26/1v-1
Salary: Grade 5 salary scale: £26,679 - £31,325 per annum
Plus: £83.36 per overnight shift (up to approx. £8,000 extra per year pro rata)
Hours: 40 standard hours (including breaks) (Flexibility Required)
Contract Status: Fixed Term until August 2027 covering maternity (with possibility of extension)
Location: Hydepark House, 3 McKinney Road, Newtownabbey, BT36 4PE/Kinnahalla, Co Down.
About the service:
To assist service users by improving the quality of lives within their community by promoting wellbeing, independence and healthy life choices. The Time Out programme meets the needs of young people (8-17) and their families by providing an alternative to placement for 4 days and 4 nights, social, educational, cultural and recreational break at an Extern youth facility.
Time out staff engages the child or young person in a range of activities and can help him/her examine lifestyle issues while the social worker intervenes with the carers thus allowing the child or young person to return to their living arrangements with the crisis being averted. This approach prevents breakdown in living arrangements and the child or young person can subsequently be referred to a programme within Extern's continuum of services.
Full details of the role and the essential criteria are detailed in the Job Description and Person Specification available at the following link;
NI4006261v-1_KeyWorker_SSBSEast_June26.pdf
The closing date for all completed applications is: 12:00pm on 3rd July 2026.
For informal enquiries please contact 028 90840 555
EXTERN offer a competitive benefits package including;
26 days annual leave, increasing to 28 days after 3 years’ service and 32 days after 5 years’ service
11 statutory holidays
Generous pension, employer contribution of 6.5%
Enhanced Occupational Sick Pay, Maternity Pay and Paternity Pay
Wellbeing Programmes
Comprehensive induction and training
Regular Supervision
Employee Assistance Programme
Bike To Work Scheme
