• Are you looking for volunteer roles ?

    Go to volunteering section

194

Supporting families administrator jobs

Job Alerts On

Get job alerts sent straight to your inbox.

By clicking 'Create alert' you agree to the Terms and Conditions applicable to our service and acknowledge that your personal data will be used in accordance with our Privacy and Cookie Policy and you will receive emails and communications about jobs and career related topics.

You will now get the latest from this search sent to your inbox.

You can manage your job alerts by clicking here:

Top job
Justlife Foundation, The City of Brighton and Hove (On-site)
£30,791 per year pro rata
A 12 month programme funded by Brighton and Hove City Council with the aim to improve the lives of families in temporary accommodation.
Posted 1 day ago
Top job
Adoption UK, Edinburgh, Edinburgh (Hybrid)
£24,478 per year
We are looking for an experienced support worker to to plan and deliver community and family events in Scotland.
Posted 1 day ago
Action Duchenne, Remote
£30,799 - £36,421 per year
An opportunity to support families and boys living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy across Scotland
Posted 1 day ago
SHINE - Spina bifida • Hydrocephalus • Information • Networking • Equality, Remote
£29,041 per year FTE (pro rata for part-time)
High-quality support and opportunities for children and young people living with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus and their families/carers
Posted 4 days ago Apply Now
Housing Justice, Multiple Locations (Hybrid)
£36,191 per year
Empower refugees, support hosts, and deliver life-changing housing solutions in a compassionate, people-first team.
Posted 1 day ago
Action Duchenne, Remote
£30,799 per year
Support families and boys living with Duchenne through organising events - meet ups, summits, residentials and more.
Posted 1 day ago
Transforming Lives for Good (TLG), Multiple Locations (Hybrid)
£26,091 (FTE)
Posted 2 weeks ago
The Woodland Centre Trust (Camp Mohawk), Reading, Wokingham (Hybrid)
£34,440 - £36,364 per year FTE
Seeking an experienced youth worker to coordinate the running of our social support programme for young people who have autism.
Posted 1 day ago Apply Now
Closing in 7 days
Victim Support, Shipley (Hybrid)
Up to £26227.50 per annum
Posted 3 weeks ago
Alexandra Rose Charity, Greater London (Hybrid)
£24,000 per year
Posted 1 day ago Apply Now
Closing in 5 days
National Numeracy, Multiple Locations (Hybrid)
£28,387 per year
Posted 2 weeks ago Apply Now
The Shakespeare Hospice, Stratford-upon-Avon (On-site)
£29,097 per year FTE (£23,278 for 30 hours per week)
Looking for an enthusiastic and highly organised Fundraising Assistant to join us and play a key role in supporting our fundraising activity
Posted today Apply Now
Closing in 5 days
OASES, Durham (On-site)
£26,000 - £28,000 per year pro rata (0.6 FTE)
Posted 1 week ago
Page 1 of 13
The City of Brighton and Hove (On-site)
£30,791 per year pro rata
Part-time (18.75 per week)
Contract (Until 30th June 2027)
Job description

Justlife’s Vision

Making people's experience of temporary accommodation be short, safe and healthy.

About the job

The role of Families Project Worker involves supporting a caseload of families living in temporary accommodation. The role requires a combination of specialist knowledge and excellent relationship building skills to support residents with varying degrees of mental health, addiction and trauma related issues to engage with appropriate support, improve their experience of temporary accommodation and to access suitable housing solutions.

The role is dependent on excellent communication and joint working with colleagues and a variety of partners and professionals; including the NHS, Probation Service, local council services and other third sector organisations.

The role requires a high degree of motivation to support complex and vulnerable people, often in a lone-working situation. With a passion to work collaboratively with others for the good of our service users, and with some experience of working in a related field in a voluntary or paid capacity.

A high degree of emotional intelligence is required to support service users, many of whom have complex emotional needs, with backgrounds of trauma, neglect, abuse, crime and low self-worth. A role of this nature will experience a range of emotions from joy to grief and as such requires a high degree of resilience to cope with the emotional demands of the role.

Making decisions, “in the moment” to do the right thing to mitigate risk with service users can place high emotional demands on the job holder. The role is highly reactive, unpredictable and at times, chaotic. The role therefore requires a high degree of self-awareness to one’s own resilience levels and exercising appropriate levels of self-care.

Why do we exist?

Justlife is in existence because we know thousands of people struggle to manage in poor and unsuitable temporary accommodation. Their stay isn’t temporary, they are likely to be suffering with deteriorating mental and physical health, becoming victims of crime, losing control of their life and even dying prematurely. We are working towards making their stays as short, safe and healthy as possible.

How do we operate?

Our values guide our work and are very important to us:

  • Collaboration before competition
  • People before programmes
  • Innovation before Institutions

What do we do?

Justlife delivers impactful services in Greater Manchester and Brighton & Hove, supporting and empowering people experiencing homelessness in temporary accommodation. We also drive positive system change across the national temporary accommodation sector, convening those with a common interest; people with lived experience, landlords, charities, local and national government, and carrying out research and gathering insights.

We aim to grow our impact and reach, supporting more people in temporary accommodation and to build a movement that brings about lasting positive change.

Why work for us?

Here at Justlife, we're committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to be an organisation that's representative of the communities we serve, which is why we strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity and perspective.

Perks of working at Justlife

  • Great holiday package! Starting at 27 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays (increasing to 29 days after 5 years’ service and 30 days after 10 years’ service)
  • Additional 5 days annual leave purchase scheme through salary sacrifice
  • Enhanced pension contribution scheme, 5% Justlife contribution (correct at time of print)
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • 2 Volunteering days per year

Key terms and conditions

Job Title: Families Project Worker

Hours: 18.75 hours per week

Contract: Fixed Term until 30th June 2027

Normal hrs to be worked: Hours can be spread across Monday – Friday between 9am – 5pm

Location: Brighton

Salary: £30,791 per Annum pro rata

Application Process

To apply, please upload a covering letter addressing how you meet the person specification, together with an up-to-date CV.

Deadline for applications is 11:30pm 31st May.

Provisional interview dates will be the week of 8th June.

Responsible to: Families Project Team Lead

Responsible for: None

Key responsibilities

Service Delivery

  • Deliver interventions and support for families in a warm, caring and flexible way, including:
    • Supporting them to engage with support services to improve and maintain their physical and mental wellbeing.
    • Assisting them in addressing housing, financial or wellbeing needs.
    • Accompanying them to appointments.
    • Connecting them with appropriate support services such as substance misuse services or food banks.
    • Collaborating with agencies such as the local authority, housing providers and support services to deliver an effective service
    • Maintaining regular contact and a listening ear for the client.
    • Helping increase their self-confidence and self-efficacy to improve their chances of moving on from homelessness.
    • Helping clients to engage in meaningful activities based on their strengths, interests and ambitions.
    • Contribute to team caseload meetings.
    • Use the Inform system to record key work carried out.
    • Carry out the relevant assessment with clients, identifying issues, as well as strengths, and develop a support plan that is reviewed regularly.

Service Development

  • Liaise with local partners to improve collaborative working
  • Promote and advertise the Justlife service locally
  • Provide reports and case studies when requested.

This job description is intended as an outline indicator of general areas of activity and will be amended in light of the changing needs of Justlife. It is expected that the post holder will be as positive and flexible as possible in using this document as a framework, and in performing other duties commensurate with these responsibilities, the band of the post and skills and qualification of the post-holder.

Person Specification

Essential Experience:

  • Experience of supporting vulnerable groups (those experiencing homelessness or housing vulnerability, or a comparable client group)

Desirable Experience:

  • Experience of working with drug and alcohol dependent adults or those experiencing poor mental health
  • Experience of supporting families
  • Experience of working with the welfare system
  • Experience of working with the housing system

Skills

  • Care, empathy and skilled in dealing with emotionally vulnerable service users
  • Excellent ability to engage with service users in an empowering manner
  • Effective communication; written and oral skills
  • Effective administrative and IT skills
  • Excellent organisational skills

Knowledge

  • Demonstrate knowledge of assessment, support planning and interventions that help clients experiencing homelessness or housing vulnerability to become and stay healthy.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the challenges and solutions to working with a client group who may be experiencing one or more of the following: poor health (physical and mental), substance misuse and homelessness.
  • An understanding of health and safety policies and procedures that aim to keep staff and clients safe.

Personal Attributes

  • Commitment to equal opportunities in our service delivery
  • High self-awareness and the ability to maintain personal well-being through periods of pressure and stress
  • Ability to be self-motivated and work well in a team or as a lone worker
Application resources
Organisation
Justlife Foundation View profile Organisation type Registered Charity Company size 21 - 50

Our vision is to make people’s experience of temporary accommodation as short, safe and healthy as possible.

Posted on: 05 May 2026
Closing date: 31 May 2026 at 23:30
Job ref: FPW May 2026
Tags: Homelessness, Social / Support Work

The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.