Housing First Worker - Lambeth, United Kingdom - Centrepoint

Centrepoint

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Lambeth, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Contract:
Permanent, Full-Time (37.5 hours per week - working on a rota including evenings and weekends)

Salary:
£29,550 per annum

Closing date:
Monday, 22 May 2023.

New opportunities not to be missed Centrepoint is the UK's leading youth homelessness charity and now the largest provider of Housing First for young people in England, is looking for x2 Housing First Workers to join our team based in London

About us

We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently.

Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation, health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment.

We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.

Together with our partners, we support over 14,000 young people each year.

As a Housing First Worker, you will need to have strong people skills in order to build psychologically informed relationships with young people.

You will also need excellent communication, organisational and advocacy skills.

We are looking for people with experience of working with young people or adults with multiple and complex needs, preferably in an outreach or floating support capacity.

About you
Effective communicator with a natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
Able decision-maker with a can do attitude.
Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.

What you'll be doing...
Visiting young people in their homes and supporting them in their journey, co-producing holistic support interventions and strengths-based risk management plans that promote wellbeing and support young people to achieve positive outcomes
Working proactively with young people to sustain their tenancies and prevent homelessness
Actively supporting young people to set up their homes, including supporting them with obtaining white goods and furniture
Advocating, signposting and referring young people to a range of internal and community resources to support them to develop the skills, resilience and confidence to live happy and successful lives
Willingness to work flexibly in accordance with the needs of young people, with some evening and weekend working required

Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts, you'll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:

25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
Healthcare cash plan
Private Medical Insurance
Income protection
Employer pension contributions of 5%
Clear career progressions, linked to portfolio work, that enables movement up the pay scale
Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
An interestfree travel loan
At Centrepoint, we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues feel included in our work and that we value the rich diversity within the organization._
Centrepoint's policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees, and volunteers receive equal treatment._

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