Youth Support Worker

4 months ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Horizon Care & Education Full time

Role: Support Worker

Salary: £23,400 plus £900 car allowance, mileage and on-call allowance

Hours: Full time/part time flexible working available across 7 days with on-call and occasional weekends/sleep-ins.

Horizon Care have an opportunity for a Support Worker to join our fantastic team.


Our Supported Accommodation division provides support to Young People from the age of 16 to get ready to live independently. If you think you have transferable skills and the drive to help young people fulfil their potential, then we would love to hear from you.

Bright Futures, Inspired By You.

About the role:

As a Support Worker, you will be working with unaccompanied asylum seeking children and care leavers to live independently.

Support workers come from different backgrounds and often have experience and skills gained in a variety of roles and environments. If you think you have transferable skills and the drive to help young people fulfil their potential, then we would love to hear from you.

You must be practical, flexible, and able to respond to a variety of situations.

If you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people and enabling them to shape their own future, then we want you to be part of our team.

How you'll be rewarded:

  • Real Living Wage employer
  • Competitive pay rates
  • Christmas bonus
  • Blue Light Card
  • Colleague referral scheme with cash rewards - earn up to £2500 per referral*
  • Financial wellbeing service
  • Life Assurance
  • Option to buy and sell up to 5 days annual leave
  • Tastecard - spectacular savings on dining, pizza, cinema tickets, supermarkets, and UK attractions
  • Opportunity to progress in your career through our Education Academy, and ongoing training and professional development.
  • Comprehensive and tailored induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.
  • Face-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.
  • Access to a wide range of free online courses for all colleagues on a variety of topics
  • Employee assistance programme - free, confidential support via Bupa.
  • Community and wellbeing - Your wellbeing matters to us, and we are committed to ensuring you get all the support you need to feel good about what you do. We're in this together.
  • Supportive management and senior leaders.
  • High quality CPD opportunities.
  • Free eye checks.



Horizon Care is also committed to safeguarding young people and most posts will require an enhanced DBS clearance.

Horizon Care is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity in employment for all, to taking action to promote inclusion and avoid discrimination. We welcome applications from all sections of the community.



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