Job Highlights

Application Deadline: Friday, 5th September 2025 @ 12 Noon
Location: A range of Greater Manchester and Lancashire locations
Contract Type: Sessional Work
Remuneration: Sessional rate for hours worked on a project basis £12.60 (Real Living Wage rate)
Interview Date: TBC

Key Focus

Early Break believes in offering the best service possible and knows how important it is to receive feedback from those who use our service on the experiences they have received, so that, where needed, improvements can be made to our service design and delivery. Early Break is seeking to offer sessional roles for Voice-to-Voice Workers who will be aged 18-25 and who will work alongside services to design, develop and assess how well services are delivered. This will be within Early Break offers and partner organisations.

The Voice-to-Voice workers will receive training and support to enable them to engage with users to offer peer to peer interviews, Service User Focus Groups, Virtual Apps, local intelligence gathering, Mystery Shopper exercises, Quality Assurance Processes and will be supported to write reports and feedback to managers in Early Break and partner organisations on the lived experience of children, young people and families accessing services.

Key Deliverables

• To be able to build relationships with children and young people in order to understand their experiences, ideas and aspirations for the services that have or may affect them. You will show this by listening, caring and wanted to understand how people feel, what they think and what they feel should change in services

• Ability to write up or produce a written, visual or other format that pulls together the views of a children and young people to share with others. You will be able to share other people’s ideas in a clear way, such as writing things down, making videos or pictures or finding other ways to showcase what children and young people have said.

• Willingness to work with agencies and those who work within the agencies that affect children and young people such as health providers, police, schools, CAMHs, charities and many others to understand what is needed. You will be comfortable to work with adults and those who make decisions. You’ll help them understand what young people really need.

• Interest in being a change agent for the children and young people services and confidence to present collected ideas for change. You will want to make things better for others. You feel confident sharing new ideas and speaking up when things need to change.

• Commitment to anti-discriminatory practice and to work in a trauma-informed way with others. You will be someone who believes and lives by being kind and fair. You treat everyone with respect, no matter who they are or what they’ve been through. You will also be willing to understand how peoples past experiences might affect then today.

• You will need to be reliable and not let others down, be on time and show up when and where needed. You will be someone who others can count on and you will do what you say you will and not let others down

• Flexibility to work sessional in some evenings and weekends and be accountable for your work. You will work with us so we can, on occasion, be available at times when young people meet which may be outside of 9am-5pm hours

• Be a creative force who can describe what is needed to innovate so children and young people have access to better provision. You will bring your ideas and ways to solve problems so that we can provide new ways to make things better for children and families.

• Be a real champion for those young people who may not get to have their voice or experience heard - you will be someone who seeks out the views of those who may not speak up through traditional routes. You consider those who don’t have the confidence or access to speak up and you make sure their voice is heard by decision makers.

Job Description / Person Specification

Apply for this Job

Letters of interest, no more than three sides, to be sent by 5th September to:

Vicky Maloney CEO

2nd Floor Castle buildings

5-10 Market Place

Bury

BL9 0LD

Email: vmaloney@earlybreak.co.uk

Further instructions:

You must include your contact details, the names of two references and your availability during the week in your letter, as well as letting us know if you have utilised AI (artificial intelligence) in how you have prepared your letter.

Thank you, we look forward to hearing from you! Successful applicants will be notified to attend for an interview, which is likely to take place in the early evening in September.