Supported Housing Support Worker

**EMPLOYMENT TYPE**:

- Full Time, Permanent

**APPLICATION START DATE**:

- 21-02-2025

**APPLICATION END DATE**:

- 14-03-2025

**LOCATION**:

- Hove

**STATE/COUNTY**:

- East Sussex

**ZIP CODE**:

- BN3 1DG

**COUNTRY**:

- UK

**WORK STYLE**:

- On-site

**DESCRIPTION**:
**37.5 hours per week / permanent / working onsite on a seven-day rolling rota, including evenings, weekends and bank holidays.**

**Our mission** is to help children and young people have a fair chance to be who they want to be. We do this by providing a safe home, increasing life skills and self-confidence, and improving emotional wellbeing and mental health.**

Our Brighton & Hove Services provide supported accommodation for 35 young people at risk of homelessness across two sites.

Lansworth House is one of our 24-hour supported housing services offering high and medium levels of housing-related support for young people aged of 16-25 with 20 bedspaces and shared communal facilities. Gareth Stacey House is our other 24-hour supported housing services offering high and medium levels of housing-related support for young people aged 16-25 with 15 bedspaces and shared communal facilities.

We adopt a trauma informed and psychologically informed approach to supporting our residents to help them build essential life skills, identify their goals and work towards aspirations so that they can move on to enjoy fully independent futures. We have a dedicated team of Support Workers, Night Workers and additional Bank Workers who provide support, guidance, and signposting around areas such as housing, budgeting, living skills, jobs and relationship building. Situated in the centre of Hove, the service has strong links with and contributes to the local community.

We are looking for two Supported Housing Support Workers to join our Lansworth House and Gareth Stacey House teams, who will hold a caseload of residents and meet with them weekly to build a support plan. Main areas of responsibilities are:
**Housing**
- Coach young people to manage their occupancy agreement and adhere to house rules, in preparation for independent living.
- Promote a credit culture, encouraging young people to keep up to date with all payments for rent.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of housing and welfare benefits for young people and be well-informed on significant changes to housing law.
- Deal effectively with non-compliance issues, such as non-payment of rent or damage to room, using restorative practices and working collaboratively with the rest of the team.

**Coaching and Engagement**
- Coach young people so they can articulate their aspirations and ambitions and take the lead in acquiring the skills they need to live independent and fulfilling lives.
- Ensure young people are encouraged to take responsibility for their own personal development, to engage with the services on offer and build strong networks and connections within the local community.
- Ensure consistent standards of safeguarding and Trauma Informed Practice when supporting young people, observing our safeguarding procedures, and keeping yourself and residents safe by respecting professional boundaries.
- Maintain client records on In-Form (client database) detailing the young person’s journey in relation to their strengths and needs, any risks, and any outcomes (to monitor service performance).

**General**
- Work as part of a team, on a rota shift pattern, ensuring young people at the service have non-judgemental, objective, and supportive staff during the day/evening, along with taking responsibility for personal safety during periods of lone working
- Contribute to a great working environment, with a calm, yet assertive manner, being able to handle potentially difficult situations.
- Participate in relevant continuing professional development and utilise Reflective Practice Supervision as part of leading psychologically informed practice.

**There will be times when lone working will be a requirement for this role, but you will get to know the team and service, along with an induction and training prior to starting on a rota. Please download the job profile for full role details.**

This is a dynamic and varied role; you will be passionate about being involved in the support and growth of young people.

**Experience and Knowledge**
- Experience relating to housing, support work, and/or working with young people at risk
- Experience of working proactively with a caseload of young people with multiple and complex needs to enable them to achieve independent living.
- Knowledge of statutory and voluntary resources available to young people with multiple and complex needs.
- Knowledge of good safeguarding procedures in relation to young people and the ability to maintain effective professional boundaries.
- Demonstrated confidence and competence in recording notes/actions in service log, incident forms and health and safety check lists.

**Skills and Abilities**
- Ability to communicate clearly