Night Workers

**_Are you looking for the flexibility of working nights while supporting vulnerable people in Reading?_**

We have Night Worker opportunities available at our services in Reading, either working as part of our women’s service providing accommodation and essential support to vulnerable homeless women with complex needs, or at our Caversham Road service, an innovative newly-designed site of bespoke pod units in central Reading, offering a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) accommodation service to residents.

In the role of Night Worker you will provide vital support and assistance to clients at night, be available to listen and deal with peoples individual needs as they arise. You will be comfortable as a lone worker, and develop a good knowledge of relevant protocols and safety precautions so that you can appropriately deal with emergency situations that arise during your shift alongside hourly building checks, monitoring issues like noise in the locality and within the building and carrying out relevant administrative tasks. We will provide you with training and development to ensure you feel confident to carry out these duties

Flexibility is required in these roles as you’ll be working a night shift rota that includes weekends and public holidays, however working in a night shift role can provide people with the flexibility other roles don’t. For example you will typically have 2 weekends off a month, and work on a rolling rota with 4 consecutive days off every other week with shift times including 7pm-7.30am and 10pm-8am.

**About you**

These roles will suit people with good communication skills with the ability to respond and interact effectively. If you have the ability to empathise with others and have the willingness to learn how to support people to transform their lives we encourage you to apply. You should be able to demonstrate:

- An understanding of the issues that affect homeless or vulnerable adults and some experience of dealing directly with the public and/or clients or customers in a busy service environment.
- The ability to be reliable, awake and alert during your shift, being able to stay calm and use your initiative in the event of an emergency and following administrative procedures and maintaining clear and accurate records.
- **For posts in our Women’s service for genuine occupational requirement reasons we are looking to appoint a female only for these posts (exemption under the Equality Act 2010 Part 1 Schedule 9).**

**How to apply