An exciting opportunity has arisen in Lanarkshire to be part of a team helping children young people and families who are struggling within education settings. Funded through the pupil equity Fund (PEF) Our Lanarkshire Attachment and Nurture service works in partnership with schools across Lanarkshire to provide support to children young people and families to develop and maintain positive family relationships. Support workers promote improved emotional health and wellbeing utilizing a number of tools and resources such as but not exclusive to Let's Introduce Anxiety Management (LIAM) and Togetherness (formally the solihull approach). The overarching aim is to emotionally contain families, upskill them to identify and employ coping strategies that allow children and young people to positively participate in the school day.
The nature of support provided can range from 1:1, whole family and group work.
Duties include:
• Where required based in schools
• supporting Children and young people in school
• offering help to family members within the home
• Signposting and advocating for individuals
• Participating and contributing to multi agency decision making forums
• Ensuring accurate record keeping
• Working with individuals to develop and review support plans
• Carryout risk assessments and develop risk management plans
• Provide regular reports to the school
• Attendance at school parents night/events
Those applying should be a highly motivated, enthusiastic, experienced and able to work on own initiative. Potential candidates should be able to foster positive relationships with partners and agencies within the local authority and demonstrate a working knowledge of:
• Safeguarding and child protection procedures.
• Promise framework,
• UNCRC legislation
• Contextual safeguarding
We are advertising for a full time, 37 hours per week Project worker 2 but we may be able to consider applications for those wishing to work part time. You must have the flexibility to work evenings and weekend if required.
A valid driving license with access to own transport for the purposes of work is essential to the role.
As part of our commitment, we will offer the following:
• excellent learning and development opportunities,
• competitive flexible annual leave and bank holidays.
• pension scheme
• access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling and life assurance.
We embrace the diversity of our workforce encouraging all cultural celebrations to be promoted and observed within the workplace.
Should you require any further information in relation to this new and exciting opportunity, please contact karen Motherwell – karen.motherwell@barnardos.org.uk or Gail Burnside gail.burnside@barnardos.org.uk
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
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:22749
- Job Title:Project worker 2
- Location:Motherwell
- Locality:Lanarkshire
- Contract type:Permanent
- Hours:37
- Salary:£28,124.46 - £30,133
- Closing Date:26 April 2026
- Interview Date:23 April 2026