Housing Support Worker

5 months ago


Colchester, United Kingdom Peabody Full time

Salary** £23,390 per annum, plus sleep in allowance**

Location** Colchester**

Contract type** Permanent**

Weekly hours** 37.5 hour per week plus 7 sleep ins per month**

Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a** Housing Support Worker (Bernard Brett House)** on a Permanent basis at our scheme in Colchester, Bernard Brett House.

Bernard Brett House is part of Peabody's young person's service in Essex, a supported housing scheme for single homeless individuals aged 16-21 years, including care leavers with current and historic trauma/drug alcohol abuse/mental health.
- The scheme has 20 bedrooms and is supervised 7 days, 24 hours per day._

Public transport options include Colchester train station and bus station. Parking is also available for car users.

**What we’re looking for**:

- Have you got the life skills and experience it takes to support young people in their journey towards independent living?
- Could you plan and deliver activities which are fun and meaningful and help move our young customers closer to their goals?
- Are you an enthusiastic support worker with a strong desire to work with vulnerable and complex young people to achieve positive outcomes?
- Can you work just as effectively as part of a team as you can by yourself?
- Do you have great IT (Word//Excel) and communication skills with a knack for creating good professional working relationships?
- Do you know how to research services which our Young People can assess?
- Can you work with young people to develop support plans personally designed to support individual needs?
- Do you understand or identify risk or safeguarding matters?

If so, then Peabody has the perfect opportunity for you

**A bit about the role**:
As a** Housing Support Worker (Bernard Brett House), **you will be working with a team of _highly motivated,_ _compassionate,_ and d_edicated colleagues_ supporting a caseload of _young customers._ You’ll need to meet each customer weekly to help them with their _goals_ and discuss their _progress._ And, when someone’s ready to move on, we'll rely on you to _help_ them access the _housing register_ or_ look for suitable rented accommodation._

As the **Housing Support Worker** at _Bernard Brett House_ you must be able to work closely with our young people with_ budgeting,_ _benefit claiming _and_ life skills_ ready for moving onto g_eneral needs accommodation_ to_ live independently_ (bidding on Gateway to home choice). You will be open minded and none judgemental.

**Put simply, if you’ve ever wanted a job where you can really make a positive difference to someone’s life, this is it.**

Relevant experience would be an advantage, as would an understanding of safeguarding and knowledge of the benefit system. But just as important may well be skills and knowledge which you have in other areas which you can share like sport, music, games, gardening, or a love of film. All these things would make you a great addition to the Peabody Young People Essex's team
- This role will require an Enhanced DBS check._

**A bit about us**:
It started over 160 years ago with one man’s desire to improve the lives of poverty-stricken Londoners. Today, we have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties and around 20,000 care and support customers. But the desire remains the same - to create homes and communities where people can flourish.

Our Young People’s Service Essex which supports 16-25-year-olds with varying needs, aims to prepare them to live independently. Why not join us and see the positive difference you could make to their lives.

Here are just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

- Sleep-in payment paid at £73.89 per sleep in where applicable.
- Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.
- 4 x Life Assurance
- Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates
- Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications
- Two additional paid volunteering days each year
- Family friendly policies
- Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

So, if you want to make a positive difference to the lives of young people, as a **Housing Support Worker,** here’s your chance

**Are you ready to apply?**

**PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.


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