New Post: Lead Our Young Carers Programme

by [email protected] | Sep 14, 2025 | Jobs, Slough, Young Carers, Youth Work

Job Title: Young Carers Lead

Location: 29 Church Street, Slough, SL1 1PL (with flexibility for home working one day per week)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: £29,000 per annum

Contract: Fixed-term for 2 years (with potential extension subject to successful funding applications)

About Us

Together As One is a Slough-based charity working to empower young people and create positive change in our communities. We are proud to support young carers – children and young people who balance school, friendships, and growing up with a caring role for a loved one.

We are now recruiting a Young Carers Lead to coordinate and grow our young carers service. This is an exciting opportunity for someone passionate about making a difference to young people’s lives, with the creativity and organisational skills to design engaging sessions and experiences.

Our Commitment to Safeguarding

Together As One is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

The role is subject to a safer recruitment process, including an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and barred list check.

Identity checks, reference checks (including from the most recent employer where the role involved working with children, where possible), and employment history checks will also be carried out before appointment.

Safeguarding is a core responsibility of this role.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Together As One is committed to creating an organisation where everyone feels they belong. We celebrate diversity and actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including those from the global majority, disabled people, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those with lived experience of being a young carer.

We believe that diversity strengthens our team and enriches the work we do with young people.

About the Role

The Young Carers Lead will take responsibility for coordinating and delivering our young carers programme. This includes running two weekly sessions – one for ages 5–10 and another for ages 11–18 – with the support of our skilled sessional staff and colleagues.

The role involves a mix of face-to-face and online sessions, designed to meet the needs of young carers and to help us deliver on our strategic objectives:

• Enhancing life outside of caring: organising engaging weekly activities where young people can connect, have fun, and build friendships – from creative workshops and games nights to social activities – alongside occasional special events like beach outings, and our annual Christmas party.
• Supporting potential: tackling the educational inequalities faced by young carers, including university visits and skills-based workshops.
• Promoting health and wellbeing: working with partners to provide sports, fitness and mindfulness activities.
• Recognising and celebrating young carers: coordinating awareness-raising initiatives in schools, GP surgeries and the wider community, while celebrating national young carers events.

Safeguarding responsibilities of the post holder include:

• Creating a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment in all sessions.
• Maintaining professional boundaries and appropriate relationships with young people.
• Recognising and responding to safeguarding concerns, following organisational policy and procedure.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and deliver two high-quality weekly sessions for young carers (5–10s and 11–18s).
• Design engaging activities using creativity, organisational skills, and external partners where appropriate.
• Work with sessional staff and colleagues to ensure sessions are inclusive, safe, and responsive to young carers’ needs.
• Coordinate trips, special events, and awareness-raising activities.
• Support monitoring and evaluation of the service, ensuring activities meet agreed outcomes.
• Advocate for young carers’ voices to be heard in schools, health settings, and the wider community.

Person Specification

Essential

• Experience of delivering youth work sessions which have successfully engaged young people.
• Experience of designing rich and varied programmes of work that contribute towards the achievement of specific outcomes.
• Motivation to work with children and young people, and commitment to promoting their welfare.
• Ability to form and maintain appropriate professional relationships and boundaries.
• Emotional resilience when working with young people, including those who may display behaviours which challenge.
• A full driving licence, with the ability to travel locally to drop off resources to young carers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage children, families, and professionals.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple activities and priorities.
• Commitment to equality, inclusion, and safeguarding.

Desirable

• Experience of managing sessional staff.
• Experience of working with young carers or in a youth/community work setting.
• Knowledge of local services for children, young people, and families.
• Ability to evidence impact through monitoring and evaluation.

What We Offer

At Together As One, we believe in looking after our staff as well as the young people we serve. From our most recent staff survey (2025):

• Strong connection to purpose – staff rated their connection to our mission and values at an average of 4.8 out of 5.
• Feeling valued – 80% of staff said they always feel their work is recognised and appreciated by managers.
• Supportive and inclusive culture – 90% of staff said they always feel respected and included.
• Wellbeing support – rated 4.4 out of 5 by staff.
• Growth and development – 80% of staff felt they had opportunities for professional growth at TAO.

You’ll join a team that is motivated, collaborative, and deeply committed to supporting young people — and where your own wellbeing and development are taken seriously.

How to Apply

Please send your CV and a covering letter, outlining your suitability for the role and referring to the person specification, to [email protected] by 11 am on Tuesday 7th October.

Interviews are anticipated to take place in the late afternoon/early evening of Monday 13th October to enable young people to be involved in the process.

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Rob on 01753 574 780 or email [email protected].