Support Worker - Housing and Homelessness

Support Worker - Housing and Homelessness (Sanctuary Emergency Accommodation)
Salary: £26,000 p.a. FTE
Full-time (40hrs/week) or part-time (32hrs/week) with a 30 min paid lunch break. This includes some weekend shifts. You will also be rostered to work on bank holidays.
Closing date: 9am on 25th April 2025
Interview dates: tbc
Benefits: Employees are eligible for Medicash (a non-contractual benefit), 33 days paid holiday (full-time equivalent), access to Cyclescheme (for discounted bikes and accessories), and a long service award (after five years).

Our client's Emergency Accommodation offers short-term accommodation (23 bedrooms), as well as support, meals and laundry facilities. Staff work with other services to provide a tailored package for each person while helping them towards moving into longer-term accommodation.

What sort of person are they looking for? A person who has a desire to help people who are experiencing homelessness. You may already have knowledge and understanding of homelessness, maybe through a previous job, as a volunteer, or through your own lived experience. You will be the sort of person who sees people experiencing rough sleeping, sofa surfing eviction or living in temporary accommodation as a person, not just as rough sleepers or service users .

You will be self-aware, compassionate, non-judgemental, and have a strong degree of emotional intelligence. You will have excellent skills in communication, prioritisation, and administration and be open to gaining new insight and understanding.

You will be motivated to find solutions for service users you are key working through partnership work internally and externally. You have the ability to manage complex behaviours and to support service users who may be in difficult situations. You will be a team player who supports colleagues and helps the team to offer the best possible service.

Interested? Apply now with your up to date CV.