Assistant Housing Project Worker

TN United Kingdom; Richmond; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking passionate individuals for weekend opportunities in supported housing. This role involves ensuring health and safety standards while creating a nurturing environment for young people. You'll manage finances, engage with vulnerable individuals, and collaborate with professionals to foster positive outcomes. With a commitment to innovation and community service, this position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a supportive work environment with competitive benefits. If you're ready to take your first step in this rewarding sector, this role could be perfect for you.

Benefits

29 days annual leave

Local Government pension scheme

Flexible working options

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong organizational skills and time management are essential.
• Ability to work flexibly and independently with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day finances and ensure compliance with health and safety.
• Engage with young people and provide support in the absence of key workers.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Time Management

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Flexibility

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29.04.2025

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Job Information

Achieving for Children is a Community Interest Company with 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, please visit our website.

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.

We offer new and exciting weekend opportunities for those wishing to develop their experience within the supported housing sector. The role involves ensuring the highest health and safety standards are met and making vulnerable young people's living spaces 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 include:

• Overseeing day-to-day finances, including raising Purchase Orders, banking, petty cash (cash and digital), float, and ordering supplies.
• Deep cleaning of void rooms, assembling flat pack furniture, and gardening.
• Reporting repairs, ensuring compliance works are carried out, and dealing with contractors on site.
• Conducting regular Health & Safety checks of communal areas and equipment, ensuring cleanliness, logging issues, and taking appropriate actions.

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

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

The salary will be pro-rata to the hours worked.

About you

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

About our benefits

We focus on creating a positive, supportive environment with access to a wide range of resources, a competitive salary, and perks to enable hybrid working. Benefits include:

• 29 days annual leave, increasing to 33 days after 2 years and 35 days after 4 years, plus an additional day off in your birthday month (or for term-time workers, non-working periods in your contract).
• Tailored induction sessions starting on your first day.
• Local Government salary and pension scheme (LGPS or Teachers Pension).
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Staff benefits and discounts.
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career.

To learn more about the benefits of working for Achieving for Children and our social work offer, please visit our website.

Start dates: Successful candidates will join on a set date each month. Please prepare for this to ensure continuous service is not affected.

Right to work: The UK has introduced a points-based immigration system affecting EU and Non-EU workers. Check the right to work guidance before applying.

Equality: We welcome applications from underrepresented communities. We are committed to inclusive recruitment, promoting equality and diversity, and valuing differences. We are a Disability Confident employer.

Safeguarding: We are committed to safeguarding children, young people, and vulnerable adults. This post is subject to a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

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 sufficient applications are received. Apply early to avoid disappointment.