We are delighted to be recruiting for a Project Worker in Gloucestershire. This is an exciting opportunity to join Barnardo's and become part of a passionate, experienced, and supportive team making a real difference to children and young people.

The successful candidate will work as a Children's Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (CHISVA) within the Gloucestershire ISVA Service.

You will receive fully funded, on-the-job CHISVA training delivered by Lime Culture, alongside a comprehensive induction programme, regular line management, case management, and clinical supervision to support your development and wellbeing.

About the Role

As a CHISVA, you will provide trauma-informed emotional and practical support to children, young people, and their families who have been impacted by sexual abuse or sexual violence. A key part of this role involves outreach support across the county, meeting service users in environments that feel safe and accessible to them.

Although based in central Gloucester, this is a county-wide outreach role requiring regular travel.

We are looking for someone who:

• Communicates effectively and can build trusting relationships with children and young people
• Is passionate about delivering trauma-informed support to children, young people, and their families
• Is motivated to amplify the voices of service users and create opportunities for them to reach their full potential
• Can work independently while also contributing positively to a collaborative and supportive team
• Is committed to safeguarding, able to take appropriate action when required, while maintaining empathy, compassion, and respect
• Is confident in outreach working, building relationships with professionals, and supporting others to work safely with children and young people

About the Service

Barnardo's delivers the Gloucestershire Independent Sexual Violence Advisor (ISVA) Service in partnership with First Light. Together, we provide specialist support to anyone in the county affected by sexual abuse or sexual violence, helping them to understand their options, liaising with other services and advocating for and supporting them through the criminal justice process.

Our CHISVAs play a vital role in ensuring children and young people receive the tailored, trauma-informed support they need, both emotionally and practically.

Additional Information

Further details about the role and requirements can be found in the attached document:

About the Role – Barnardo's Children's Independent Sexual Violence Advisor

Please ensure you read this before submitting your application.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Rachel Laurie

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

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 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

*T&C's apply based on contract