Position: Senior Housing Engagement Worker
Pay: £14.96 per hour (£29,172.00 per annum)
Location: YMCA Norwich My Place, Bethel Street, Norwich
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours per week: 37.5 hours
Job Role
As Senior Housing Engagement Worker, you will create and maintain a safe, supportive, and secure environment for residents, offering a programme of positive activities designed to address the various barriers faced by young people. This role ensures that residents are actively involved in the needs, risk and planning of the service, facilitating their progression towards more independent living. While on duty, the role also involves providing support to other staff members in the team and ensuring the health, safety, security, and well-being of all service users, staff, and visitors.
Further information can be found at Senior Housing Engagement Worker Job Description
The Organisation
YMCA Norfolk is a great place to work, offering meaningful opportunities to make a difference in the lives of young people. Working at YMCA Norfolk is an opportunity to be a part of an organisation which is challenging, innovative, rewarding and fun! We place young people at the heart of all we do and are committed to building an organisation that is responsive to the needs of young people and our stakeholders.
What youll need to succeed
We're looking for an experienced support worker or housing worker who has worked with vulnerable people with support needs. You will have a knowledge of housing legislation, including tenancy management, with experience of undertaking needs and risk assessment and support planning. You must have experience of taking the lead or managing others, with the ability to demonstrate emotional stability and resilience to pressure whilst working within the agreed standards of professional boundaries and confidentiality. Ideally, you will hold a Level 3 professional or skilled based qualification in Housing, but if not, you must be willing to work towards this as and when required.
For more information on this role, please contact
[email protected].
Benefits
- Health Care Plan
- 34 days (pro rata) per annum inclusive of Bank and Public Holidays
- An additional day of annual leave (pro rata) awarded after 5 and 10 years of continuous Long Service
- Access to contributory stakeholder pension scheme after 3 months
- Health and wellbeing events and activities
- Family friendly policies
- In service training opportunities and bursaries investing in your development
- Annual staff day and staff awards to celebrate our successes
- Death in service benefit of 2 x annual salary
- Regular line management and support
- Staff discount at Williams Kitchen Café, Explorers Soft Play & Muddy Puddles Nursery
Closing date for applications: Tuesday 21st July at 9am
We reserve the right to close the online vacancy when we are in receipt of sufficient applications. Should you wish to apply for this post you are advised to complete and submit your application form as soon as possible.
YMCA Norfolk is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Please note the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Enhanced DBS check prior to starting employment.
Written references will be obtained for the successful candidate that will cover the previous 5 years of employment. The successful candidate will be advised that an offer of employment is subject to us obtaining a minimum of two references which are satisfactory to YMCA Norfolk. Character references may be sought where it is not possible to obtain employment references.
If you require an alternative method of applying, or documents in a different format, please email our HR Team via [email protected]
