Assistant Housing Project Worker

Achieving for Children; Kingston upon Thames; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Achieving for Children is seeking an Assistant Housing Project Worker in Kingston upon Thames. This role offers exciting opportunities in supported housing, focusing on ensuring health and safety, managing finances, and delivering impactful support for young people. With a commitment to development and a range of benefits, this position is ideal for individuals looking to enhance their career while making a difference in the community.

Benefits

29 days annual leave

Local Government salary and pension scheme

Flexible working options

Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development offer

Qualifications

• Strong organisational abilities including time management and problem-solving.
• Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day finances including raising Purchase Orders and petty cash.
• Deep clean of void rooms and practical tasks such as putting together flat pack furniture.
• Engage with young people, offering necessary support and liaising with professionals.

Skills

Time management

Creative thinking

Problem solving

Multitasking

Good communication

Negotiation skills

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Achieving for Children

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Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

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Job Information

Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company that has a public sector ethos, combined with the freedom to innovate enabling us to do things differently. As a not-for-profit social enterprise owned by three local authorities (Windsor & Maidenhead, Kingston and Richmond), we offer the freedoms of a social enterprise with the employment benefits of local government. To find out more about us

Is this your first step in supported housing or working with care leavers and unaccompanied asylum seeking children? If so this role could be for you.

A new and exciting weekend opportunities for those wishing to develop their experience within the supported housing sector. A varied and important role from ensuring the highest health and safety standards are met - through to making vulnerable young people’s living space safe, secure and homely.

About the role

You will be involved in housing management tasks such as Health & Safety and Fire compliance, rent collection and providing monitoring reports. Daily activities will include:

• Oversee the day to day finances including raising Purchase Orders, the banking, petty cash (cash and digital) / float and ordering of supplies.
• Deep clean of void rooms, and practical tasks such as putting together flat pack furniture and gardening.
• Reporting repairs and ensuring compliance works are carried out and dealing with contractors on site.
• Ensure that regular Health & Safety checks of communal areas and equipment are completed & communal areas are regularly cleaned, issues are logged and actioned appropriately.

In the absence of the key workers you will engage with young people, offering support that is needed, including liaising with professionals and dealing with incidents as and when they occur.

For further information about this role, please contactLaura Clarke by email for an informal discussion.

The salary will be pro rata to the hours worked

About you

• Strong organisational abilities including: time management, creative-thinking, problem-solving and multitasking.
• Able to work flexibly and independently with limited management oversight.
• Personal determination, drive, energy and ambition to achieve challenging objectives, celebrate success and deliver excellent outcomes for children using a strength based approach.
• Commitment to resource-sharing and collaborative working within Achieving for Children and across organisational boundaries in the best interests of children and families.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills that are open, honest, persuasive and pragmatic, including excellent negotiation and influencing skills.

About our benefits

We are focused on creating a positive supportive environment, where you will have access to a really wide range of resources, as well as a competitive salary and all the perks to enable hybrid working. In AfC you will also have access to:

• 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after 4 years with an additional day off in your birthday month(Or for term term workers, your leave entitlement consists of the non-working periods in your contract.)
• Tailored induction sessions commencing on the date you start working for AfC
• Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension)
• Flexible working options - helping to keep a good work life balance
• A comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• A range of staff benefits and discounts
• An excellent learning and development offer to support your career pathway

To find out about all of the breadth of benefits of working for Achieving for Children . For our social work offer .

Start dates: Achieving for Children have meaning successful candidates join on a set date in each month.Candidates are advised to prepare for this should a job offer be accepted to ensure eligible continuous service is not affected.

Right to work: The UK has introduced a new points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers and sponsorship requirements. We advise checking the for right to work guidance.

Equality: We particularly welcome applications from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our teams.Achieving for Children are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions and can improve the way we deliver services. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

For more information about AfC: Drop in and meet Regina on the first Wednesday of every month at Civic Centre, Twickenham.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you complete and return your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.