Safer Futures Senior Project Worker

Senior Project Worker – Safer Futures (Cornwall & Isles of Scilly)

Barnardo's – Safer Futures Domestic Abuse Service

Safer Futures is the commissioned support service for people affected by domestic abuse in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We provide trauma‑informed, person‑centred support for adults, young people, and children, helping them recover safely and confidently. Our work also includes behaviour‑change programmes, professional training, and education in schools to promote healthy, respectful relationships.

We are looking for a Senior Project Worker to join our team and play a key role in supporting people towards safer, healthier lives.

About the Role

As a Senior Project Worker, you will lead on triage, complex case management, and clinical pathway coordination. You will supervise staff, hold a specialist caseload, and ensure high‑quality, trauma‑informed practice across the service.

You will:

• Provide leadership, supervision, and guidance to team members
• Lead on triage, assessments, and counselling pathway coordination
• Manage a complex caseload, delivering 1:1 trauma‑stabilisation support
• Support decision‑making around risk, readiness, and intervention planning
• Act as a key link between internal teams, counselling services, and multi‑agency partners
• Contribute to service development, safeguarding, and quality assurance
• Maintain high‑quality records and data, supporting reporting and improvement

About You

We're looking for someone who:

• Quickly builds rapport and engages effectively with people
• Has experience working with domestic abuse, trauma, or complex needs
• Is confident in decision‑making, risk assessment, and case management
• Can lead, support, and inspire others in a fast‑paced service
• Is committed to trauma‑informed, strengths‑based practice
• Can work collaboratively with multi‑agency partners
• Has excellent communication, organisation, and record‑keeping skills

Why Join Us?

You'll be part of a supportive, committed team working to end domestic abuse and improve the lives of people across Cornwall. This role offers opportunities for professional development, reflective practice, and contributing to innovative service delivery.

When completing your application - please refer to document labelled  - Safer Futures Service Specific - Role Complex TS and Triage and Person Specification - which provides a detailed  role description and person specification. 

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.

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

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:22783
• Job Title:Safer Futures Senior Project Worker
• Location:Cornwall
• Locality:Cornwall
• Contract type:Permanent (Fixed term funded post)
• End date:March 2028
• Hours:26
• Salary:£28,124.46 (FTE) £19,763.13 (Pro Rata)
• Closing Date:3 May 2026
• Interview Date:To be confirmed

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Additional Info

• Information Sheet for Applicants Applying for Positions Working with Children and Vulnerable Adults (updated July 2021).pdf (107.00 KB)
• Barnardo's Workplace Offer Visual Summary.pdf (27.58 KB)
• Project Worker 2 - Job Description and Person Specification.pdf (0.59 MB)
• Recruitment of Ex-Offenders Policy Dec 2024.pdf (164.07 KB)
• Safer Futures Service Specific - Role Complex TS and Triage and Person Specification.pdf (183.88 KB)