Keyworker - Young Persons SHAP

Jigsaw Homes Group; Ashton-under-Lyne; Presencial; GBP 23.000 - 29.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

24 days holiday per year

Bank holidays plus 3 concessionarydays

On-site gym

Perkbox discounts

Training and development

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

Descripción de la vacante

Jigsaw Homes Group in Ashton-under-Lyne is inviting applications for a fixed-term Young Persons' Keyworker within the SHAP programme across Tameside and Oldham. You will support 18–25-year-old care leavers in our accommodation services, carrying a small caseload and delivering wrap-around, person-centered support to help them sustain a tenancy.

Shifts run 8am–8pm, including weekends and bank holidays. The role is fixed-term to 31 March 2028, with opportunities for training, development and

Responsabilidades

• Carry a small caseload and offer person-centred wrap-around support to address barriers to tenancy sustainment.
• Address barriers such as substance use, mental and physical health difficulties, debt and money management issues.
• Work shifts to cover services from 8am - 8pm, including weekends and bank holidays.

Descripción del empleo

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Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 37,500 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality; low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

About the department:

At Jigsaw Support our focus is on helping people to live happy, healthy lives in a safe home and supporting our most vulnerable individuals is our top priority.

Working within the Jigsaw Support Team you will be part of an innovative, forward-thinking team that encourages success. We are passionate about improving the quality of lives of our customers by supporting them to achieve their goals and independence.

In addition to delivering our existing support services, we are always seeking new innovative partnerships, solutions and funding opportunities, responding to need and working with communities in which we can make a difference. With more than 200 staff from offices in Ashton under Lyne, Leigh and in our supported accommodation projects across the North West, we support over 7,000 people annually through the contracts we manage.

This position is within our Single Homeless Accommodation Projects (SHAP) programme in Tameside and Oldham. The programme offers self-contained longer term temporary accommodation and wrap around support to people with experience of rough sleeping, to enable them to live as independently as possible and gain the skills and confidence to sustain a tenancy and live a fulfilling life.

About the role:

Please note, this is a FIXED TERM role until 31st March 2028, subject to external contract funding.

As one of our Young Persons' Keyworker, you will support 18-25-year-old care leavers and young persons in our accommodation services across Tameside and Oldham.

You will carry a small caseload and offer person centered, wrap around support to address any barriers to tenancy sustainment and move on to permanent accommodation. These barriers could include substance use, mental and physical health difficulties, offending, domestic abuse, debt and money management issues.

Please note, you will be required to work shifts to cover these services from 8am - 8pm, including weekends and bank holidays.

For more information regarding the role, please refer to the job pack below.

• Jigsaw Homes Group offers employees a competitive 24 days holiday per annum rising incrementally to 29 days, plus statutory bank holidays and 3 concessionary days in December.
• We also offer our employees the option to buy/sell up to 5 days extra leave per year.
• Incremental salaried pay
• Company sick pay
• On-site gyms
• Access to our cash back health plan membership
• Access to Perkbox, our benefits platform giving you access to hundreds of retail discounts, cashback offers and rewards
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Training/development opportunities
• Plus much more.

See the benefits page on our website for more details.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Your Application

Your application should reflect your own skills, experience and motivation for the role. While we recognise that AI tools may be used in limited circumstances, such as reasonable adjustments or accessibility support, applications should not be created or substantially rewritten using generative AI. Where AI has been used to materially assist your application, please declare how and where it was used. Failure to do so may be considered during the recruitment process. Routine spelling, grammar and accessibility tools do not need to be declared.