Youth Voice Lead - Health

BARNARDO'S

31,512 per year

Lynton House

Full-time

30th November 2025

Join Barnardo's to help deliver a new three-year UK Young Health Programme with a leading pharmaceutical company!

The partnership will:

Help young people in poverty get healthy food and cooking equipment through a new 'Healthy Living Fund'.
Support young people who have experienced poverty to create a 'Healthy Living Toolkit' to share with youth and families across the UK.
- The Toolkit may include nutritious recipes, physical activity ideas, and practical advice to encourage healthy choices.

This role will:

Lead youth engagement (80% of role / 0.8 FTE)

Recruit and support a group of young people with experience of poverty to become "Young Health Champions" working with Barnardo's and our pharmaceutical partner.
Run workshops teaching Young Health Champions about good nutrition and healthy lifestyles.
Help Young Health Champions use their experiences and new knowledge to create a 'Healthy Living Toolkit'.
Work with Barnardo's policy team to help Young Health Champions share their messages with policymakers and the public.

Support youth voice in Barnardo's health services (20% of role / 0.2 FTE)

Help Barnardo's health services across the UK include young people's voices in their work.
Run group sessions to gather young people's views for service planning and advocacy work.
Support young people's ongoing involvement in our health projects.

We're looking for someone with:

At least five years' experience in a role working directly with children and/or young people in a health, social care, education or youth work setting.
Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating strategic voice and influence activities with young people – including through remote or virtual working.
Experience of working in the health context – this could be working within a public sector health body (e.g. the NHS) or a VCSE organisation delivering health work.
Experience of working with a range of stakeholders at different levels, across different organisations/partners, and through a matrix-reporting arrangement.
Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate projects, collaboratively and effectively.
Excellent collaboration, networking and partnership-working skills.

Please note, these will also form our initial shortlisting criteria.

Specific requirements:

You must live in or near central London as this role requires evening and weekend work with young people in Zone 1. Due to budget limits, we cannot cover travel or accommodation costs.
This is a hybrid role linked to our central London office near Euston.
Your line manager will supervise you remotely from outside London.

Previous applicants do not need to reapply.

This advert might close early due to high application volumes. Please apply as soon as possible.

For enquiries about the role, please contact: Jemma.Davies@barnardos.org.uk

We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values.  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. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture 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.  More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

The world of work has changed. We are understanding of what works best for our colleagues both current and future as we look to embrace this new way of working. 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, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or any combination of these.

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 HolidayPlus 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

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

Reference number:20821
Job Title:Youth Voice Lead - Health
Location:Lynton House
Contract type:Permanent (Fixed term funded post)
End date:Three-year fixed term (as per partnership funding)
Hours:37
Salary:£31,512
Closing Date:30 November 2025
Interview Date:TBC

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