Looking for a  Social Work role where you can truly make a difference?
Do you thrive on a challenge and want to support children, young people, and families to build brighter futures? If that sounds like you—keep reading!

We're looking for a Senior Practitioner/Social Worker to join our team at Newry Family Resource Centre, part of Barnardo's. We're a trusted, long-standing service that supports families through tough times, helping them find strength and stability.

This role is all about working directly with children and families—listening, understanding, and helping them move forward. You'll carry out assessments and offer therapeutic support that can make a lasting impact.

We'd love to hear from you if you:

• Are a qualified Social Worker (with post-AYE experience)
• Have experience working with children and families undertaking assessment
• Build strong, trusting relationships with both children and adults
• Work well in a team and bring a positive, can-do attitude
• Believe in people's potential and want to help them reach it
• Are flexible and ready to adapt to meet families' needs
• Are committed to learning and growing in your role.

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Do you want to make a real difference in children and young people's lives? If so, then we would like you to join our dedicated team of social workers and help empower children to thrive. We believe in quality over quantity, ensuring manageable caseloads so you can truly focus on the people you support. Regular supervision, peer support, and emotional wellbeing resources are all part of how we care for our team. We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join our small friendly team, who are well linked in with the wider Barnardo's organisation across the UK.

Barnardo's Cymru Fostering Service, covers the whole of Wales. We offer flexible working options, and a strong support network, and ongoing professional development to ensure you feel valued and supported in your career. 

The suitably applicant will be enthusiastic, creative and passionate about supporting children and young people who are cared for by their foster families. You will be able to work therapeutically with people who have experienced trauma and loss in their lives. You will work in a way that acknowledges and validates their experiences and work with hope that their future may be different. You will also have opportunities to design and deliver training to a team of committed foster parents and peers. You will have strong assessment skills in order to complete Form F's and annual reviews.

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​Are you a passionate Social Worker with experience of senior leadership in the field of Social Work and Social Care? Do you have a vision for transforming  and improving the lives of babies, children , young people and their families?  If so, we invite you to join our dedicated team as a Senior Leader in Barnardo's. 

You will play a pivotal role in shaping our organisational strategy and ensuring the delivery of exceptional care. You will lead a team of professionals, foster a culture of excellence and collaborate with stakeholders to drive continuous improvement. 

In order to achieve our purpose we require Senior Managers who are able to work within the complexity and uncertainty of commissioning and tendering in the voluntary sector and who are able to display business insight in a social care setting.

If you are ready to take on a challenging and rewarding role that makes a difference, we would love to hear from you.

While the post will be based in Belfast, ADCS's are expected to be able to travel throughout Northern Ireland and on occasion to the UK.

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Barnardo's Bewick Road Service is excited to offer an opportunity for a qualified social worker to join the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Centre at James Cook University Hospital, Teesside. This part-time role offers the chance to develop your social work skills within an established and supportive multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The position also includes flexible working options Monday to Friday (working over 3 days), with ongoing support and training provided.

To be considered for this role, candidates should have at least three years' post-qualification experience working with vulnerable children or adults, and be registered with Social Work England (or equivalent). A full UK driving licence is required.
 
Main Duties:
The CF social worker will provide support to children with Cystic Fibrosis, their families, and carers, focusing on the social aspects of care. The service covers a large geographical area, including Teesside, Redcar and Cleveland, and Durham, with the role based at James Cook University Hospital.

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Work has begun on a ground-breaking housing programme designed to support young people at risk of homelessness in Glasgow. Working with the local council and construction partner Enevate Homes, leading children’s charity Barnardo’s Scotland will build five ‘Gap Homes’, which are purpose-built houses for young people leaving the care system. 

 A Gap Home provides high quality, affordable and additional housing for care-experienced young people, and provides the opportunity for a young person to live in a new property in an established community with support available to them from Barnardo’s. 

The Gap Homes programme was developed by Barnardo’s in response to the lack of suitable housing and support available to young people at the point of leaving care. Poor quality housing and a lack of support increases the likelihood of homelessness. 

This is exacerbated by a lack of suitable accommodation for young people preparing to live independently. Glasgow* is one of numerous sites across the UK where Barnardo’s is constructing Gap Homes, with existing Gap Homes in Stirling and Renfrewshire – and more to come. Young people are expected to be resident in a Gap Home for up to two years. As landlord, Barnardo’s can offer flexibility on the length of tenure, reflecting each young person’s individual needs. 

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This is an exciting opportunity to join the friendly, dynamic, multi-disciplinary team at the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse (CSA Centre) as our new Assistant Director, Communications. This is a key leadership role within the CSA Centre, central to our ambition to raise awareness of the true scale and nature of sexual abuse and to drive evidence-informed improvements in policy and practice

Leading our Communications Team, you will play a key role in developing and delivering the CSA Centre's communication plans over the immediate and longer term, helping us to ensure that our evidence, learning and resources have the widest possible reach into policy and practice at both local and national level.

As a member of the CSA Centre's Senior Management Team, you will work closely with the CSA Centre's multi-agency, multi-disciplinary team, enabling you to draw on expertise from a wide range of different professional backgrounds. You will lead our engagement with communications colleagues from across Government departments and key stakeholder groups.

We are looking for a highly motivated leader with strong skills and significant experience in communication roles, and the ability to manage an extensive and varied workload to deliver multiple objectives. Communication activity at the CSA Centre is extremely diverse; in any given week you might find yourself developing a new strategic approach to disseminating CSA Centre resources throughout practice, leading a briefing session on new research findings for prominent national media outlets, advising senior Government leads on plans for a new awareness raising campaign, working with expert stakeholders to develop national media guidelines for the reporting of child sexual abuse… No two days are the same!

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This vacancy for a qualified and registered Social Worker.

Barnardo's Adoption Midlands and South West has an exciting vacancy for a Social Worker to join its expanding Service covering work predominantly in the Central/Midlands area.  You will be joining an experienced and stable staff group who embrace working in a creative, open and transparent manner with adopters, to provide children with permanence in a family who understand the lifelong nature of adoption and the impact of issues such as developmental trauma, attachment and neuroscience.

As a Social Worker you have the chance to make a real difference in the lives of Children, Young People and Families by:

• Recruiting, assessing and approving a diverse range of adoptive families to meet the needs of waiting children
• Matching the needs of children nationwide with the skills of appropriate adopters
• Ensuring all adopters have access to excellent training, guidance and support when they require it, including managing ongoing contact with birth family
• Working directly with adoptive families promoting a trauma informed approach and helping build and maintain family relationships
• Being part of Barnardo's undertaking to children, young people and adopters to continuously learn and improve

If you have a passion and drive to make a positive difference to children and adopters we would like to hear from you.

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Barnardo's Bewick Road Service is excited to offer an opportunity for a qualified social worker to join the Paediatric Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Centre at James Cook University Hospital, Teesside. This part-time role offers the chance to develop your social work skills within an established and supportive multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The position also includes flexible working options Monday to Friday (working over 3 days), with ongoing support and training provided.

To be considered for this role, candidates should have at least three years' post-qualification experience working with vulnerable children or adults, and be registered with Social Work England (or equivalent). A full UK driving licence is required.

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Are you ready for a new challenge?

Barnardo's West Yorkshire Keyworker Service have developed through our lived experience and engagement work four Youth Expert by Experience Worker roles.

We want to create better outcomes for our children, young people and young adults and we are looking for young people to join our team who share our passion to improve lives.

A Youth Expert by Experience worker is an ambassador role which has been created for young people to apply for.

You will be up to the age of 25, have experience of either accessing keyworker provision in West Yorkshire or have lived experience of neurodivergence - this could be either for yourself or for a family member.

You will represent and advocate for children and young people who use our services across West Yorkshire.

You will support and shape the West Yorkshire Keyworker Service using your unique perspective and experiences.

You will support with making change to other services that children and young people use in West Yorkshire.

We are open to working with you to find out what you would like to advocate for and develop your skills in.

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​Barnardo's Adoption North England have a fantastic opportunity for social workers to join our busy team on a permanent full-time basis.

Location of Post:  The successful candidates will be on a hybrid contract with an office base in either Leeds or in North Tyneside. They will be expected to work primarily across the region of their office base, however at times may work across the whole of the North of England depending on service need.  Attendance at regular team meetings at the Leeds office will be required.

We are looking for enthusiastic individuals who bring a passion for adoption work and for developing secure permanent homes for children.

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