Youth Support Worker

1 week ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Safe Haven Accommodation Full time

**Youth Support Worker - Team Leader**

At Safe Haven Accommodation, we specialise in providing a range of supported accommodation and supported living services for semi-independent Looked After Children from the age of 16+.

We have an exciting new opportunity available within our Bristol/South West region for a Team Leader.

**Package for the role**:
37.5 hours Monday to Friday (flexibility required)

Competitive salary of £26,370.50

**What does the role involve?**
- To build good relationships with professionals through excellent problem solving, communication and information sharing.
- To monitor and support staff to ensure the support delivered by the team is professional, timely, effective and always safeguards service users.
- To ensure service users and all those working with them are safeguarded by ensuring that all staff receive, read and adhere to accurate risk assessments and have the relevant tools and resources they need to be able to perform their roles.- To ensure that service users achieve the best outcomes possible in line with their Pathway Plans and that they complete Safe Haven Life Skills Programme to enable them to develop independent living skills successfully in time for them leaving care.
- To supervise a team of Support and Key workers to ensure they deliver an effective supported living service to service users.
- To operate within Safe Haven's scope of services and ensure staff team do the same.
- To identify, communicate and act upon concerns and incidents immediately and takes responsibility for following these through.
- To represent Safe Haven at various meetings and events.
- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care qualification essential
- NVQ Level 5 in Leadership and Management desirable
- Experience of working with young people in semi-independent accommodations essential
- Used to supporting and managing a team
- Full UK driving license and own vehicle
Safe Haven Accommodation is committed to promoting the welfare of young people and keeping them safe. To enable us to safeguard our young people, our vetting process requires all applicants who are successful at interview to undergo a Disclosure Barring Services check prior to any offer of employment being made. For applicants who may have lived outside of the UK for 6 months or more, we will conduct the relevant checks equivalent to those carried out by the DBS.

We are also committed to equality, valuing diversity and working inclusively across all of our activities. We aim to have a workforce that represents a variety of backgrounds and cultures and can provide the relevant knowledge, abilities and skills for our organisation.

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