Supported Housing Officer

**Do you have experience supporting vulnerable adults in accommodation, with varying needs?** **Would you like to provide accommodation support to 18-25-year-old UK residents as well as 16-17 year-old children in need?** **This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in an ambitious, sector-leading organisation where your contributions will be valued. You will work in a friendly and supportive team.** **Here at One YMCA, we take pride in looking after our colleagues, as we know our people are the driving force behind our success. Therefore, alongside competitive pay and a fulfilling and supportive work environment, we offer various staff benefits including**: - Opportunity to accrue additional leave, up to 5 days - Many learning and career development opportunities, with paid and tailored training - Free Employee Assistance Programme 24/7 including access to counselling and GP services - Employer contributory pension scheme - Good maternity and paternity leave - Compassionate leave - Health and wellbeing opportunities - Access to Simply Health Plan, covering various medicals costs including optical, dental costs - Opportunities to volunteer with different parts of the organization through Mission 25 program - Employee Discount scheme on brands, travel, groceries and more **Location and travel**: This position will be based in Bishops Stortford. **Hours and pay**: You will work Rolling Rota including weekends, 37.5 hours per week, working one weekend shift in four. You will also be rostered to work on public holidays. There will be occasional unsocial hours based on the needs of the service. The actual salary of £27,427.00 Per Annum. This is approximately £14.06 per hour. **About the role**: One YMCA runs high quality housing services. This opportunity is part of a small and committed team supporting 18-25-year-old individuals as well as two 16/17-year-olds with the transition into independence. You will support our clients to adjust to living in shared accommodation, and work with external services to support them to identify move on accommodation. The service provides intensive wrap-around 24-hour support. You will have experience supporting vulnerable adults with varying needs. You'll also be committed to providing tailored individual support plans to help clients realise their full potential. This role will involve lone working as well as working as part of a team. You will be required to assist clients to attend appointments within the community, encourage and oversee that the accommodation is kept clean & tidy, facilitate budgeting, oversee any housing benefit issues, universal credit sanctions and support clients to resolve, support cooking and life skill sessions and meet frequently with the caseload to provide support. An Enhanced Disclosure check is required for this role. **Background information**: This is an exciting time to be joining One YMCA as we embark on an ambitious plan to grow our housing service and double the impact we have across all our accommodation sites. In 2020/21 we provided over 185,030 nights of safe and secure accommodation to those most in need. Providing considerably more than just accommodation our highly experienced support and complex-needs team deliver over 23,000 housing related support sessions each year through which our housing team were able to support a total of 992 vulnerable individuals to escape homelessness and rough sleeping with 463 of our residents being helped to move-on positively into their own long term settled accommodation. **How to apply**: Before applying, please read the attached job description. (If you are reading this on a third-party website, please browse to One YMCA's website, go to the \"Get involved\" part of the site, and find the listing for this job).