Youth Support Worker
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As a member of our Supported Housing Team, you can expect your role to include:
Working with and supporting Young People to creating a positive, nurturing and trusted environment for them to live and thrive.
Providing unconditional positive support, whilst maintaining boundaries with calm and consistent professional practice.
Acting as a a role model for them to model their behaviours against.
Where required, working collaboratively with other agencies and professionals including social workers, personal advisors, housingproviders, health professionals, drug and alcohol treatment workers, criminal justice practitioners (YOT, police and NCA) to
deliver wraparound support
Proactively support young people to plan to move on from the service. This includes advising on housing options, supporting withapplications for housing to local authorities and exploring private sector accommodation options.
Prepare young people for move on, helping them to develop life-skills such as cleaning, cooking, budgeting, engaging with digitalservices, engaging with health services and positive use of leisure time.
About You:
You will ideally have experience of working with vulnerable young people or children and see this as an opportunity where you cansupport 16-24 year olds take an important step towards independent living.
Experience of working in supported housing would be a huge benefit but first and foremost, you will be passionate about supportingyoung people and share our belief that everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are and what they can become.
Your communication skills will be your greatest strength and you will have experience of dealing with difficult situations, andchallenging people and handling conflict appropriately.
From your background, you might have a working knowledge of Housing Benefit, Personal Budgets and the benefits system as well asgood understanding of the needs of homeless people and the services available to them. We are happy to support you with this
knowledge through our in-house training and development programmes.