Youth Support Worker

Ready for a new challenge in 2026?

Do you have a passion for working with young people, helping them grow in confidence, discover their strengths, and explore new opportunities? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

The Barnardo's Co-op Partnership is an exciting, innovative project aiming to support over 1 million young people to build positive futures. Our Sedgemoor for our Future service is co‑designed by young people and built around a social kitchen concept. We create welcoming spaces where young people can:

• Learn to cook healthy, nutritious meals
• Share food and eat together
• Have fun through games and activities
• Explore topics that matter to them
• Build confidence, teamwork, and life skills

• Tuesdays – Highbridge, 4: 30pm – 6:00pm
• Wednesdays – Bridgwater, 4:30pm – 6:00pm

Applicants must be available to facilitate these two sessions, design and deliver these workshops in different places and spaces to help young people develop confidence, teamwork, and skills. You will also need to attend events, find creative ways to engage young people across Sedgemoor, and evaluate sessions by recording outcomes.

Hours will be between 18.5 and 25 per week (flexible, including evenings).

• Experience engaging with young people aged 10–25
• Creativity and confidence in designing inclusive group sessions and workshops
• Ability to provide emotional and practical support in line with safeguarding policies
• Flexibility to adapt to young people's needs
• Strong partnership skills to work with Co‑op, Children’s Services, and the community

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's. We are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity and a part of our new approach to pay and reward.

• We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023.

• Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay.

Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid‑point of the pay band. This ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours.

• 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.
• 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 after 3 years, 29 days after 5 years, and 30 days after 7 years of Barnardo's service. Part‑time staff are entitled to the same proportioned holiday.
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days of annual leave via our Holiday Plus scheme.
• A host of family‑friendly leave options including company maternity, paternity and adoption pay, and other 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.
• Death in service cover of 4× annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Interest‑free season ticket loans.
• Discounts and cashback from high‑street shops, major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure / theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal.
• 20% discount at Barnardo's…