Senior Housing Support Worker (23908)

Barnardos; Preston, Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Annual leave 26–30 days (pro-rata for

Group Personal Pension

Employee assistance program

Cycle to work

Job summary

Barnardo's is recruiting for a senior post to lead the Moving On service across four dispersed houses in Preston and Lancaster. You will work with young people aged 18-25, often alone, to support independent living skills while ensuring safety and accommodation standards.

The role requires coordinating move-ins/outs, managing staff, and safeguarding within multi-agency frameworks. Hybrid working and progressive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Ability to assess needs and risks for placements
• Skilled in safeguarding within multi-agency frameworks
• Commitment to service user participation as a core value
• Experience leading staff and coordinating move-ins/outs
• Strong communication and problem-solving under pressure

Responsibilities

• Lead the Moving On service across dispersed houses with a senior governance role
• Weekly visits to each house to maintain standards and safety
• Complete house checks, report repairs and carry out light cleaning duties
• Assist young people with benefit issues and social housing registrations
• Coordinate planned and unplanned move-ins and move-outs
• Manage team tasks and safeguarding according to multi-agency protocols

Skills

Assessment of need

Risk assessment

Safeguarding (multi-agency)

Leadership

Independent working

Job description

Moving On – Dispersed Houses

This part of the service relates to 4 shared houses (3 in Preston and 1 in Lancaster) that provide accommodation to up to 13 young people. The houses are owned by Registered Social Landlords and Barnardo's are the managing agent for these premises. All of the young people who live in the houses are 18-25 and have often moved into them as the next step in their journey to independence , having previously lived in supported accommodation with a higher level of support.

Initial Specific Responsibilities

We wish to identify a new team member to join our small team of reliable and high-quality workers, to lead in the delivery of the service.

The successful candidate will be highly skilled at working with young people who have a range of issues. They will be able to work effectively, often on their own, regularly visiting a supported accommodation environment, to ensure the young people are safe and able to develop their independent living skills.

The successful candidate will be working within a small team to provide weekly visits to each of the houses to maintain good accommodation standards and the health and safety of the houses and young people. This will include completing house checks, reporting and chasing up repairs, light cleaning duties and any other tasks that are required for the houses to run smoothly. The successful candidate will also be assisting young people in completing essential tasks such as resolving benefit issues and registering with social housing and will be involved in assisting young people with developing their independent living skills.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in managing aspects of the work, including some staff members and buildings. This will include coordinating planned and unplanned move ins and move outs from the accommodation.

This is a senior role, and as such the successful candidates will be:

• effective at making assessment of need and risk as well as suitability of placements
• highly skilled in managing complex safeguarding issues within multi-agency frameworks.
• committed to having service user participation as a core value within their practice
• skilled at resolving issues and avoiding placement breakdowns

Pay & Reward Framework

We appreciate our colleagues' dedication and their commitment to delivering excellence in the vital work we do, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's. We also know that we can only realise our ambitions and achieve better outcomes for more children, thanks to the talent, hard work and creativity of our people.

We are committed to a rounded colleague experience with an approach to both pay and rewards that are fair, attractive, and progressive. This is in support of our strategic ambition to ensure Barnardo's is a place everyone can belong, grow and thrive.

The salary range advertised is in line with our pay principles, for consistency and fairness while recognising the skills and experience applicants bring to the role. Appointing salaries can be discussed further at appointment stage; we do seek to appoint within this range always exercising responsible stewardship.

Benefits

Workplace Offer: What it means for you

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. We understand our workplace offer means different things to different people, and we encourage those conversations. This may mean working at one of our stores, services, working at home, in the community, at one of our Collaboration Hubs or depending on the role any combination of these. Please read through the advert carefully to understand the remits of hybrid working that will be specific to the role.

Barnardo's require colleagues to be UK residents, based in the UK and to complete their roles from within the UK (with the exception of colleagues providing Barnardo's services in Jersey and colleagues who live in the Republic of Ireland providing services in Northern Ireland)

• Barnardo's believe in creating equality of opportunity in the workplace and supporting people to manage their work-life balance; we are therefore open to offering flexible working arrangements.
• Annual Leave entitlement for full-time colleagues is 26 days per annum, increasing to 27 days per annum, after 3 years Barnardo's service, 29 days per annum, after 5 years Barnardo's service and 30 days per annum, after 7 years Barnardo's service. Those working less than full time are entitled to the same level of holiday pro rata
• The ability to buy up to another 5 days annual leave via our Buy Your Leave scheme
• A host of family friendly leave options including company Maternity Paternity and Adoption pay; together with all family additional leave options
• Service related sick pay from day 1
• Access to a Group Personal Pension with a matched 4% or 6% contribution from Barnardo's. Ability to pay via salary sacrifice to garner both tax and NI savings on your own contribution
• Death in service cover of 4x annual earnings for all staff contributing to our Group Personal Pension
• Cycle2work scheme
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Discounts and cashback from at high street shops including major supermarkets, cinemas, gyms, leisure/theme parks, holidays and much more via our Benefit Portal
• 20% discount at Barnardo's stores
• Opportunity to purchase a health cash plan to claim towards dental, glasses, therapy etc
• Free access to round the clock employee assistance program for advice and support
• Access to Barnardo's Learning and Development offer

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