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The role will include but will not be limited to:
· Engaging with young people identifying their passions, personal needs, and aspirations and helping to remove any barriers which prevents them achieving their full potential.
· Conducting interviews with applicants, performing the appropriate needs and risk assessments and reference checks before offering accommodation.
· Ensuring minimal vacancies by promptly arranging cleaning and preparing flats to be re-let as quickly as possible.
· Visiting properties as agreed, to ensure safety, overall good condition, and residents’ adherence to the licence agreement.
The ideal candidate will be tech-savvy, approachable and interested in young people and adept at prioritising tasks efficiently. You'll need to adapt to changing priorities while maintaining a commitment to delivering quality housing services. Excellent communication skills are a must, as you'll collaborate effectively with a diverse range of agencies.
Benefits
Apart from a competitive salary and the opportunity to work for an organisation that is passionate about giving back to the community, the successful applicant will also be eligible for:
· 24/7 Confidential Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
· Cycle to work scheme
· Access to our IMHR Plus online portal, offering discounts at major brands and retailers
· SimplyHealth cash plan e.g. dental care, physiotherapy, diagnostic consultation, etc
· Heavily discounted: childcare at our YMCA nurseries, YGym membership, and Coffee at the Clock purchases
· Life Assurance scheme
· Additional annual leave day for your birthday month… and more!
The successful applicant will complete an enhanced DBS check before taking up the role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy before this date should we receive sufficient applications. Please apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
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20 hours per week / £26,955 per annum pro rata / Permanent / working within Monday to Friday 9am-5pm (working pattern can be discussed at interview). This role is based on site in Eastbourne and will cover our Transitional services across Eastbourne, Bexhill, St Leonards and Hastings.
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
YMCA East Sussex Transitional Housing provides accommodation over multiple properties across Eastbourne, Bexhill, St Leonards and Hastings to 130 clients aged between 18-35 years. We provide support to our clients to help them build essential life skills, identify their goals and work towards aspirations so they can move on to live independently and lead fulfilling lives.
In delivering the role, you will work with the Deputy Supported Housing Manager and the wider housing team to provide effective day to day management of our transitional accommodation service. You will have your own caseload of residents, working creatively and effectively alongside young people to develop their assets and talents and to acquire the skills they need to live independent and fulfilling lives. You will contribute to the smooth and safe running of the service by providing consistency and reliability. You will have a calm, yet assertive manner, being able to handle potentially difficult situations. You will also support young people to safeguard themselves against abuse and risk.
There will be times when lone working will be a requirement for this role.
ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
This is a dynamic and varied role; you will be passionate about being involved in the support and growth of young people and will be able to actively encourage residents into education, training, and employment.
Ideally, you will have knowledge and experience of working with young people, knowledge of housing and welfare benefits, along with an awareness of all aspects of safeguarding. You will already be a team player but also able to work on your own initiative, an effective communicator who is able to deliver robust, clear handovers and build strong relationships with other members of your team.
We believe every young person has the right to discover their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Our Organisation
You will work a combination of office, client-home, community, and home-based working. Causeway is a 4-day week employer, so you will work 32 hours over 4 days a week. Causeway is a London living wage employer. You will receive a 6% pension contribution, rising to 12% after two years service. We also offer an employee assistance programme that provides free financial, legal, and mental health advice and support to our employees. We provide core training, and continuous learning and development throughout your career with us. Travel schemes such as cycle to work and travelcard loans are also available.
The Role
To provide a high-quality housing management service, ensuring outstanding customer service and service delivery, by a being a primary point of contact for tenants. Engage with tenants to provide a responsive efficient housing management service that is consistently excellent for all tenancies. Housing Officers are expected to carry out the vast majority of their duties (70%) at our managed accommodation.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Job Title: Specialist Housing Officer
Hours: 26 hours, Part-time,
Salary: £24,641 per annum (actual for 26 hours)
Contract: Permanent
Location: ISHA, 102 Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, N4 2DR
This role is based at our Head Office but there is some flexibility to work in a hybrid way if preferred.
Requirements
We are looking for a confident individual with great interpersonal skills for this busy Housing role. If this is you, come and join us at ISHA as our Specialist Tenancy Officer.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Housing professional to join our small, but supportive, Housing Team working with ISHA’s older adults and providing an enhanced housing management service. It is an interesting and varied role for an engaging, solution-focused person, with a passion for providing excellent people-focused services, and someone who wants to add value within an organisation.
You will work closely with the external Care and Support agencies caring for our residents, to support with maintaining a safe and secure living environment and their wellbeing. This includes continuous improvement across all areas of the role, while helping to support and achieve our organisational objectives.
Some of the key responsibilities of the role include:
- Assess residents referred to the service.
- Liaise with colleagues to ensure viewings and lettings are coordinated and completed at the earliest opportunity.
- Work with colleagues to assist residents in maximising income and benefit entitlement.
- Take reasonable measures to ensure the security and health and safety of residents in their home.
About ISHA
We are a small but ambitious housing association at a critical juncture. Our ambition is for the communities we are anchored in and exist to serve, and we have done and achieved much over the past few years. But in these challenging times we know we’ll achieve nothing unless we are equally ambitious for own our people.
Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. We strive to build a more diverse organisation, where everyone feels empowered to bring, and be, their best self to work.
We can’t be a brilliant landlord if we don’t partner with brilliant colleagues. Could you be one of them and be trusted to make the difference?
If this sounds exciting, we want you on our team. Please do submit an application.
Staff Benefits
We’ll offer you a generous pension scheme (up to 10% employer matched contributions and a death in service benefit), 29 days annual leave (increasing after five years’ service), eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits (see attached). We have an evolving wellbeing offer, that is being developed following employee feedback, and we will invest in your professional development with on-going training and career development opportunities.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want ISHA to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBTQ+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that passionate commitment to customers, respect for everyone, pride in Team ISHA and trusted to make the difference remains at the heart of everything we do.
Deadline: 09:00am on 4 October 2024.
Interview: 11 October 2024 in person at 102 Blackstock Road.
Please note: We can only accept applications from candidates with eligibility to currently work in the UK.
Interested?
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No agencies please.
Crisis is the national charity for people experiencing homelessness. In 2024 we embarked on our new 10-year strategy for ending homelessness. We know it is not inevitable. We know together we can end it.
Location: Crisis Skylight London, 50 – 52 Commercial Street, E1 6LT, with some working from home in line with Crisis’ hybrid working policy and some travel across London
Contract: Fixed term contract until 14th November 2025
About the role
The Housing First Team at Crisis offers open-ended, flexible, and intensive support to people who are multiply disadvantaged. As a Team Leader, you will take a person-led, holistic, and trauma-informed approach to the support of members and provide effective line management to Housing First coaches in line with Housing First principles. We take a bold approach to supporting people and the role involves empowering staff to work within a risk-aware but not risk-averse culture, to maximise safety and opportunities.
You will collaborate with colleagues and support the Housing First Manager to build relationships with key stakeholders including voluntary sector and local authority partners. You will also support the Housing First Manager to measure our impact and continuously evaluate our fidelity to the Housing First principles.
About you
To be successful in this role you will have initiative and knowledge of Housing First and Housing Led approaches and their role in systems change across homelessness services.
You’ll have the ability to lead by example, inspire and support a multi-disciplinary team working with people with complex and enduring needs.
You’ll have experience of developing external and internal partnerships to gain the most positive outcome for people using the service.
Please see the full Job Pack linked below, for a full list of requirements for this role. We realise that long lists of criteria can be daunting, and you may not want to apply for a role unless you feel 100% qualified. However, if you feel you have relevant examples to answer the screening questions, we encourage you to apply.
We believe diversity is a strength, and our aim is to make sure that Crisis truly reflects the communities we serve. We are actively working towards our organisation being a place where everyone can thrive and make their best contribution to our mission of ending homelessness for good. We know that the more perspectives, voices, and experiences we can bring to this work, the better. We particularly welcome applications from people who have lived experience of homelessness, and people from all marginalised groups, communities, and backgrounds.
Working at Crisis
Our values, Bold, Impactful, Collaborative and Equitable, are at the heart of everything we do as we continue in our mission to end homelessness.
Our staff, members and volunteers are vital to getting the right government policies in place, providing breakthrough services, and building a supportive community. We’ll lead by example to nurture a positive and ambitious workplace guided by ending homelessness.
As a member of the team, you will have access to a wide range of employee benefits including:
- Interest free loans for travel season ticket, cycle to work, and deposit to secure a tenancy.
- Pension scheme with an employer contribution of 8.5%
- 28 days’ annual leave (pro rata) which increases with service to 31 days and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days leave.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption pay.
- Flexible working around the core hours 10am-4pm
- Wellbeing Leave to be used flexibly And more! (Full list of benefits available on website)
Alongside our excellent staff benefits, we will support your ongoing development to build your skills, experience, and career.
When you join us, you will have the opportunity to join our staff diversity networks, which aim to champion issues across the organisation, enable staff to be their authentic and best selves and contribute to making Crisis a truly diverse organisation.
How do I apply?
Please click on the 'Apply for Job' button below. Our shortlisting process is anonymised as part of our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. We do not ask for CVs, instead we ask you complete the work history section and answer the screening questions for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively. At least two members of staff score all applications.
Closing date: Sunday 22nd September 2024 23:55
Interviews will take place on Tuesday 1st October at 50-52 Commercial Street, London, E1 6LT
Accessibility
We want our recruitment process to be as accessible as possible. If you need us to make an adjustment or provide additional support as you apply for a role, please email our Talent Acquisition team to discuss how we can help.
Registered Charity Numbers: E&W1082947, SC040094
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37.5 hours per week / Permanent / working onsite on a seven-day rolling rota, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Our Brighton & Hove Services provide supported accommodation for 50 young people at risk of homelessness across two sites. Gareth Stacey House is one of our 24-hour supported housing projects offering high and medium levels of housing-related support for young people aged of 16-25 with 15 bedspaces and shared communal facilities. We provide support to our residents to help them build essential life skills, identify their goals and work towards aspirations so that they can move on to enjoy fully independent futures. Our staff team comprises of Support Workers, Night Staff and Managers. Each Support Worker holds a caseload of residents and meets with them weekly to build a support plan and help them achieve their goals.
As a Supported Housing Support Worker you will hold a caseload of residents, working with them on a one-to-one basis with also facilitating group work sessions. You will identify their needs by listening to them, with employing psychologically informed approaches to enable residents to make better choices and take responsibility for their actions. You will work closely with other services such as, Social Services, Police, Probation, education providers and local organisations. Our projects already have excellent working relationships with these services, and your role will build on these. You will be helping them to improve their practical living skills such as cleaning, budgeting, managing behaviour, seeking, and securing employment and making wise decisions. You will help to contribute to a great working environment, with a calm, yet assertive manner, being able to handle potentially difficult situations.
ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
This is a dynamic and varied role; you will be passionate about being involved in the support and growth of young people. Ideally, you will have knowledge and experience of working with young people, knowledge of housing and welfare benefits, along with an awareness of all aspects of safeguarding. You will enjoy working in a client facing role, with the ability to self-motive to drive to deliver an outstanding service. You will be an effective communicator who is able to deliver robust, clear handovers and build strong relationships with other members of your team. In addition, you will have the ability to de-escalate volatile situations and manage challenging behaviour appropriately.
We believe every young person has the right to discover their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
This is a new and exciting role in Refuge, and the post holder will be embedded within borough housing teams to facilitate the dual working that will ensure that survivors’ safety and housing needs are met. The post holder will be based within housing teams for three days a week, to help facilitate.
- Close working relationships with Housing colleagues
- Provision of specialist knowledge relating to DA for Housing Officers and Homelessness Teams to draw on
- Specialist support for survivors at the moment of crisis
- Provision of advocacy; supporting survivors to access safe accommodation
- Ongoing support from the IGVA from wider DA service, including access to group clinical supervision, casework management meetings, reflective practice sessions, one-to-one supervision from service manager
This recognises that many survivors will approach Housing at moments of crisis, when they are either considering fleeing, or have already fled.
The housing IGVA will carry a caseload of survivors and their children that require additional support. They will work closely with victims of domestic abuse from the point of crisis, to provide high quality independent advocacy and support to survivors of domestic abuse at the highest risk and their children.
They will empower survivors by providing them with emotional, practical and personal welfare support. They will ensure that survivors are provided with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment, enabling them to access their rights, make decisions and increase their life options.
The job involves informing survivors of the full range of civil, criminal and practical options that might increase their safety.
This post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
37.5 hours per week / Permanent / working onsite on a seven-day rolling rota, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
Horsham Y Centre supports 50 young people aged 16-25 to alleviate the risk of or impact of homelessness. The project is staffed 24 hours a day with a support team, night team and management based onsite. The service aims to support residents into independent accommodation through life skills support. Situated in the middle of Horsham, the project has strong links with and contributes to the local community.
As a Supported Housing Support Worker you will hold a caseload of residents, working with them on a one-to-one basis with also facilitating group work sessions. You will identify their needs by listening to them, with employing psychologically informed approaches to enable residents to make better choices and take responsibility for their actions. You will work closely with other services such as, Social Services, Police, Probation, education providers and local organisations. Our projects already have excellent working relationships with these services, and your role will build on these. You will be helping them to improve their practical living skills such as cleaning, budgeting, managing behaviour, seeking, and securing employment and making wise decisions. You will help to contribute to a great working environment, with a calm, yet assertive manner, being able to handle potentially difficult situations.
ABOUT YOU: We know that there are great candidates who will not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
This is a dynamic and varied role; you will be passionate about being involved in the support and growth of young people. Ideally, you will have knowledge and experience of working with young people, knowledge of housing and welfare benefits, along with an awareness of all aspects of safeguarding. You will enjoy working in a client facing role, with the ability to self-motive to drive to deliver an outstanding service. You will be an effective communicator who is able to deliver robust, clear handovers and build strong relationships with other members of your team. In addition, you will have the ability to de-escalate volatile situations and manage challenging behaviour appropriately.
We believe every young person has the right to discover their potential.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Housing Legal Aid Solicitor
- £50,000 FTE (Basic salary - £45,864 with £4,136 Legal Aid special allowance)
- 8 weeks holiday per year
- 5% employer's pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
University House is seeking Housing Solicitors as part of a major expansion.
All candidates must have experience of Legal Aid and also a willingness to engage with wider access to justice projects.
This is an exciting opportunity to work for one of the leading organisations in the NFP sector.
For further details, please see the job description and person specification.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Housing Manager
Permanent
Full time hours - Monday - Friday
Salford, Manchester
£35,000 - £40,000 dependent on experience
Our client
Morgan Hunt is delighted to be working with a local not-for-profit organisation that has been providing high quality supported housing for single, vulnerable homeless people since 1987. They are situated close to both Manchester City Centre and Salford Shopping Centre with a total of 250 single HMO units across approximately 30 properties. Their mission is to enhance and enrich the lives of individuals by creating a non-discriminatory, non-judgemental, safe, supportive and friendly environment, providing quality supported housing to assist in reducing homelessness for the socially excluded, while empowering the individual and promoting independence.
As the existing Housing Manager is due to retire, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a new Housing Manager to join the team and support the organisation on their journey to further growth and success. Do you enjoy working in a fast paced, demanding environment? Are you able to manage multiple priorities at once? If so, then this role could be for you!
The role
- Overall day to day general management of the service, staff, support provision and houses of multiple occupancy.
- Ensuring that all housing benefit and universal credit queries are identified and resolved as well as any license issues.
- Checking and ensuring housing benefit is monitored and payments are up to date - liaising with housing benefit to ensure any suspensions are monitored and backdates requested where its applicable.
- Overseeing and responding to welfare rights queries and issues that arise as a result of change in circumstances.
- Managing the support charge arrears.
- Devising and updating rent schedules for approval by the local authority.
- Updating daily monitoring spreadsheet, used to record the tenant's support charge payments to ensure balances are accurate.
- Overseeing all risk assessments and compliance ensuring adherence to regulations and requirements.
- Managing evictions and notices to tenants, ensuring notices are compliance with license agreements.
- Maintenance management - monitoring the maintenance work being carried out, ensuring compliance is checked and inspection work is carried out - PAT testing, alarms, EL testing, gas certificates for all units.
- Managing and planning to upgrade and improve the properties.
- Compliance management - ensuring all relevant certification is up to date - booking contractors to ensure compliance testing is carried out to enable certification, updating the compliance monitoring form for HSPG.
- Liaising with maintenance to ensure the identified remedial work is completed following the 3 monthly inspections.
- Management of the cleaning staff.
- Negotiating contracts with providers - BT, SHARP, EE.
- Managing Small claims online.
- Prepare documents so the landlord can represent at County Court, and Tribunals.
- Attendance at general meetings of residents.
- Formulating policy on move on, including negotiation with other housing organisations to secure move on accommodation.
The candidate
- Demonstrable experience of managing HMO's ideally that house vulnerable people.
- Experience of property management including compliance, health and safety and maintenance.
- A thorough understanding of Housing Benefit, Universal Credit and Rent Schedules.
- The ability to work well under pressure, managing multiple priorities at once.
- The ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally with key stakeholders and staff members.
- The ability to "think outside the box" to achieve cost effective solutions for the organisation whilst maintaining a quality service offering.
To be considered for this role, please apply today!
Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual's skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.
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About you
We are looking for a confident, established professional with extensive knowledge and networks across housing in Scotland, who is comfortable navigating faith spaces. You will be a project manager who is happy working independently and remotely, while achieving high quality deliverables.
About the role
We have recently received funding to explore expansion into Scotland for the Faith in Affordable Housing project. This will be a 15-month project with potential to expand, subject to funding.
The proposed project is to undertake a scoping exercise across Scotland, to ascertain the need for social and affordable housing, and the key stakeholders providing housing, as well as the potential presented by faith organisation-owned assets to meet housing need. The resulting feasibility study and business plan will then inform the potential next steps for Faith in Affordable Housing Scotland.
About us
Housing Justice is a charity that acts on homelessness and housing need across England and Wales. We work to prevent people from experiencing homelessness, help people out of homelessness or destitution, and enable the building of affordable homes. We also take a leading role as the voice of the faith and voluntary sector, supported by the Welsh and UK Governments. At Housing Justice, we value differences: we are a diverse organisation, and we work with people of all faiths and none. We seek to influence and bring about change for the benefit of those we serve through partnership, lobbying and networking. Our initiatives include Faith in Affordable Housing, Hosting people seeking sanctuary, Support for people from Ukraine, The Winter Night Shelter Network and Citadel.
Benefits
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- 29 days annual leave each year plus an additional day of holiday for each year of service over 3 years, up to a maximum of 5 additional days.
- We are open to flexible approaches to working and will consider flexible working requests openly
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Home office set-up
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The Cardinal Hume Centre works to prevent and tackle youth and family homelessness.
Job title: Housing Advisor
Reports to: Manager of Advice Services
Location: Westminster, Central London
Hours: Full time or part time (21-35 hours)
Salary: £36,000 per year (pro rata for part time)
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the world? Do you want to leverage your skills to combat homelessness for children and young people? Then we have the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking to recruit a Housing Advisor to provide a structured advice and information service to clients of the centre in housing law, housing options and aspects of welfare benefits that relate to housing and homelessness. This is an exciting role in our Advice team that will manage a specialist housing caseload and provide emergency housing advice to clients in crisis. You will work closely with other teams in the centre to ensure clients are offered an integrated holistic service. You will also build and maintain good relationships with statutory and other partners and to work together with them to get the best outcomes for our clients and to monitor unmet need locally so that this can be addressed.
This is just one of the new posts we are recruiting as part of a new project to support families experiencing homelessness in and around Westminster. It follows a report we published last year on the lived experience of families living in temporary accommodation. We are delighted to have secured funding to help us build on this research and pilot different approaches to reach those most in need. We want to develop support that not only meets emergency needs but can enable longer term outcomes. Our aim is to build the case for positive change and reduce future rates of homelessness and poverty. In this role you can play a part in designing, testing and evidencing different approaches with a team of colleagues that cross different advice specialisms and professional family support.
You will join a Centre with a distinct service offer. In our staff survey last year 94 % of colleagues said they enjoy the work they do, and 95% felt they make a difference. Our central London location and generous supporter base is helping us build our impact and influence through a strengthened ability to evidence the impact of our work. We work hard to give our advisors the time and autonomy to achieve the greatest change for our clients.
Please refer to the job description for further information.
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter. You must account for any gaps in your employment history. In your cover letter please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The Centre requires staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check.
Benefits
· 26 days’ annual leave (pro rata for part time staff), rising to 28 days (pro rata for part time staff) after two years’ service
· Pension: the Centre provides a stakeholder pension scheme and will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.
· Life assurance cover(after probation passed)
· Season ticket loan
· Training and development opportunities
Closing date for applications: There is no closing date for this role. We will be evaluating applications as we receive them, so if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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Are you passionate about making a real and lasting difference to the lives of young people in London?
The Role
An exciting opportunity to be part of a LGBT+ support service.The successful candidate will provide effective person-centred support to LGBT+ people living in Causeway’s specialist LGBT+ supported housing.Support clients to achieve tangible progress in areas such as tenancy management, independent living skills and training/education.Support LGBT+ clients to develop greater self-esteem and self-confidence. Equip clients for independent living and move-on to more independent accommodation.Develop support plans with individual clients that reflect their ambitions and aspirations with clear actions for achieving these. Contribute to risk assessment and safeguarding plans. Ensure clients settle into their accommodation and become familiar with the local area. Work closely with the Housing Team to ensure residents are complying with the terms of their occupancy agreements. Contribute to client involvement within the LGBT+ supported housing service. Be aware of trauma informed working, particularly with regard to trauma experienced by LGBT+ people. Ensure clients are linked into appropriate support services and sustain engagement with services.
Our Organisation
You will work a combination of office, client-home, community, and home-based working. Causeway is a 4-day week employer, so you will work 32 hours over 4 days a week. Causeway is a London living wage employer. You will receive a 6% pension contribution, rising to 12% after two years service. We also offer an employee assistance programme that provides free financial, legal, and mental health advice and support to our employees. We provide core training, and continuous learning and development throughout your career with us. Travel schemes such as cycle to work and travelcard loans are also available.
About You
You will have experience of working in support, supported housing or advice services. You will have experience of supporting young people to develop aspirations and form healthy relationships. You have a drive for and commitment to equal rights and diversity. You have knowledge of the issues confronting young people and the needs of vulnerable homeless people in general, with a sound knowledge of safeguarding and risk assessments. You love to work in a client- centred way and plan your work and deadlines to get the best for your clients. You are flexible, creative, and offer a personalised approach to your clients. You are a team-player, and you are passionate about driving your own performance and development at work.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
About The Connection at St Martin’s
We believe that no one should have to sleep rough on London’s streets, and that everyone should get the support they need to find a place to call home. We get to know every person we work with, understanding what they need to recover, helping them build on their strengths, and supporting them to find their own way home. Help us make London a city where no one sleeps rough on our streets.
London’s diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London’s diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.
We particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of homelessness who we believe are an essential asset in our sector.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome the opportunity to consider flexible working arrangements.
About the Role
This is a new role for The Connection at St Martin’s and reflects our ambitions to deliver housing opportunities for our clients. In our strategy we aim to ensure that 300 of our clients are successfully and sustainably housed.
This is an ambitious target and the person holding the role will need to deliver our existing accommodation services while continuing to network and create relationships with other organisations to bring more opportunities to our clients.
The person in this role will be responsible for managing relationships with existing partners and funders while also securing new partners and funders as necessary to deliver our strategic aim of delivering housing solutions.
Full job description can be found on our website
Salary: £50,547
Closing Date: Sunday 6th October
Interview Date: Thursday 17th October
Our Benefits
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Generous training budget, plus an annual personal training budget
• Enhanced Sick Pay Policy
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Day off for moving house
• Hybrid working (depending on role requirements)
• Pension – 5% Employer, 3% Employee
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Reward Gateway (access to discount vouchers and cashback at the UK’s favourite retailers)
We are a London Living Wage employer
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
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Full-time (37.5 hours per week) / Fixed Term until 31 May 2025 (Maternity cover) / Working on four nights on, four nights off rota including working over weekends and bank holidays. Although these are long shifts, you will get four days off after, which can provide a great work life balance.
Our mission is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.
We are looking for a Housing Mobile Night Worker to provide floating support to our teams in high support 24-hour projects as well as medium support and transitional housing units to ensure that our properties are safe, secure, and welcoming through the night. You will be working across Brighton and Hove as well as Worthing to support the static night worker during the night as well as undertaking your mobile duties.
Working on site you will be responsible for ensuring the service is safe by keeping clear records of night time activity within the building. You will regularly complete building checks and monitor CCTV upkeeping health and safety regulations in accordance with YMCA DLG's policies and procedures. You will work to prevent any anti-social behaviour from impacting our neighbours and other residents. You will work alongside other support staff to maximise the wellbeing of residents by completing one to one interventions with young people who may be experiencing mental health crisis and/or who may need medical assistance.
This is a mobile role, requiring all applicants to have a full valid, UK Driving Licence. You will also be lone working as part of the role, so you will need to be comfortable with decision making and following procedures.
ABOUT YOU: We know there are great candidates who may not fit everything described, or who have important skills we have not mentioned. If that is you, please do not hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself and why perhaps you are looking to take the next step.
Ideally you will have experience working with young people, those considered vulnerable or with multiple and complex needs along with being able to demonstrate a real passion for wanting to work with young people. You will have an understanding of the needs of single homeless clients aged 16-25 and the ability to engage, motivate and inspire, with a strong commitment to changing the life of others for the better. You will already have clear verbal and written communication skills, good IT and keyboard skills and the ability to self-motivate. You will be an effective communicator who is able to deliver robust, clear handovers and build strong relationships with other members of your team. In addition, you will have the ability to de-escalate volatile situations and manage challenging behaviour appropriately.
We believe every young person has the right to discover their potential.
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