Homeless Recovery Worker Assistant

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Part Time, 24.5 hours a week. Working a mix of weekday and weekend shifts between 8am and 10pm.

Are you looking for a challenging and rewarding role where you are able to empower young people every day to develop their skills and move towards independence? Do you enjoy working in an environment where every day is different to the next? Then this could be the role for you.

You will be working as part of a team to provide support to our young people leaving care. You will love helping others and enjoy supporting young people to achieve their goals and become independent. Your positive attitude towards your work and others will help to contribute to a great working environment. You will have a calm and personable manner and be able to handle potentially difficult situations.

Main Responsibilities

You will support young people by prompting and helping them to attend appointments

You will encourage their involvement in personal progression in the form of education, training, employment activity or volunteering

You will help them develop their practical skills in areas such as budgeting, shopping, cooking and housework, laundry, health and hygiene

You will work with external partners (such as colleges) to maximise the opportunities available to them, so that they can resettle in the community.

Empower young people to achieve the outcomes they identify as desirable for independent living including support with practical tasks

Involve young people in the smooth running of our service

Help to maintain a welcoming, safe environment, identifying and minimising all potential risks to all our young people, visitors to the service and the building

You will manage young people and visitors in the immediate external areas and any associated safety issues

Maintain young people’s support records to our organisational standards

Ensure our young people are kept safe, working within our organisational and the local authorities safeguarding procedures

Complete Health & Safety checks and ensure information is recorded accurately on internal systems in accordance with Health and Safety regulations

Follow our organisational policies and procedures

Attend supervision, appraisal, training and meetings as directed which may be outside your normal working pattern

Any other reasonable task as requested by a member of staff

Attributes & Values

Previous experience in this type of work is not essential but you will have a real passion for wanting to work with homeless people. Your values will match ours, you will be committed to helping others and enjoy the real job satisfaction that this brings.

Clear verbal and written English

Good IT and keyboard skills

Polite, assertive manner, ability to self -motivate

Passion for working in a client/customer facing role

Knowledge of the benefits system and tenancy legislation

Have an interest and genuine concern for homelessness and related issues

Knowledge of voluntary and statutory agencies

We reserve the right to close our adverts early if a successful candidate is found, so please submit your application as soon as possible.