Project Officer

Your Housing Group; St Helens; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension (up to 8%)

Healthcare cash plan (Medicash)

Annual volunteering day

Discount scheme

Job summary

Your Housing Group is offering a permanent Project Officer (Key Worker) role at Ravenhead Foyer in St Helens. You will support 16–25 residents to develop life skills and independence, building strong relationships with residents, staff and external agencies.

The role operates on a 3 week rolling rota, 35 hours per week, with opportunities to contribute to planning, group activities and personalised support plans. A dedicated wellbeing and progression focus underpins the role.

Qualifications

• Experience engaging with a range of young people (16–25).
• Ability to work flexibly within a 3-week rolling rota.
• Strong commitment to helping residents develop independent living skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide key worker support to young residents and support action plans for independence.
• Assist residents with life skills development and access to external services.
• Deliver one-to-one sessions or group activities as part of the learning programme.

Skills

Engage with young people

Tenacity for best outcomes

Innovative and creative working

Resilient and flexible

Diary & caseload management

Job description

Job Title: Project Officer (Key Worker)

Salary: £25,407

Contract: Permanent

Location: St Helens

Weekly Hours: 35 hours per week on a 3 week rolling rota

So…. What is this role exactly?

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit a Project Officer at Ravenhead Foyer. Ravenhead Foyer is a supported housing project for 32 young people aged 16-25 and offers them the opportunity to make progress in their lives, to build resilience, develop skills and meet their aspirations.

As a Project Officer, you will play a key role in supporting residents to help them achieve their goals, develop independent living and life skills and build excellent relationships with residents, colleagues and professionals from external agencies.

Ravenhead Foyer is accredited with the Foyer Federation meaning we take an asset-based approach, called Advantaged Thinking, in all the work we do; encouraging young people to aim high, dream big and fulfil their ambitions.

We want to recruit a Project Officer as passionate about this as us.

What will my working week look like?

Project Officers work on a 3 week rolling rota - Week A: 8am-4pm Week B: 11am-7pm Week C: 12noon-8pm, and are part of a multidisciplinary team on site supporting the young people who can live with us for a maximum of 2 years. The role includes some element of lone working. In addition, there is opportunity in the future for potential hours outside Monday to Friday. Every day is different; you could be delivering 121 support sessions on life skills, reviewing an action plan, supporting a young person to a medical appointment, contributing to a multi-agency meeting or facilitating group activities as part of the learning programme.

What will I be responsible for doing?

First and foremost, you will be providing key worker support to our young people. Working through support and action plans with them, in order for them to develop the life skills necessary to move on and live independently in the community.

For more detail on the role, please review the role profile available by visiting the vacancy on our website - www.yourhousinggroup.co.uk/careers

And what would make me stand out from the crowd?

• An ability to engage with a range of young people
• A tenacity in seeking the best outcomes for young people
• Ideally you will be innovative and creative in your ways of working
• Resilient and flexible in dealing with others
• This role is really suited to someone who likes to manage their own diary and caseload, and enjoys interacting with lots of people on a daily basis.

And who are Your Housing Group?

Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford. As one of the North’s sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year.

We’re an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

That all sounds great, what’s in it for me?

In return we offer £25,407 for a 35 hour week, and 23 days (pro-rata for part time) annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served), plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance.

Although you are based at Ravenhead Foyer you will have access to Youggle House – our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space in Birchwood, Warrington - you may be asked to travel to Youggle House to meet up with your wider team for meetings and training when required.

On top of this, we’ll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names.

Benefits

• £25,407 for a 35 hour week, and 23 days (pro-rata for part time) annual leave (holidays continue to increase with time served), plus 3 discretionary days between Christmas & New Year, plus Bank Holidays
• Contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%)
• An advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn’t just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments)
• An option to buy up to one weeks further holiday
• An annual volunteering day
• An amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names

This role also offers genuine progression opportunities, with staff previously progressing into roles such as Learning and Support Officer, Accommodation and Support Officer, Tenancy Management Officer; and both the Foyer Manager and Deputy Manager started their careers as Project Officers.

Additions

This role is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 and will require the post holder to carry out ‘Regulated Activity’ as defined under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. Therefore, as part of Your Housing Group’s pre-employment checks, successful applicants will be required to complete a satisfactory Enhanced DBS with barred list(s) check.

Closing Date: 21st September 2026

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability, if these applicants meet the minimum requirements for the role (as set out in the role profile and/or person specification) they will be guaranteed an interview.

Your Housing Group welcomes applications from our customers, however, access to confidential information and probity will be explored to determine whether there is a potential conflict of interest or security issue present which may prevent the Group from being able to proceed with the application.