Senior Youth Support Worker YMCA Mansfield Supported Housing

YMCA Robin Hood Group; Mansfield; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

23 days annual leave

Workplace pension

Life Insurance/Death in Service

Cycle to Work Scheme

Staff events

Blue Light Discount

Job summary

YMCA Robin Hood Group is seeking a Senior Youth Support Worker to help young people build life skills and transition to independent living within supported accommodation.

You will be a keyworker for 10–15 youths, using a trauma‑informed, person‑centred approach, and collaborating with social workers and health professionals to deliver wraparound support.

A childcare or health & social care qualification is desirable; additional housing qualifications may be funded after probation.

Qualifications

• A Childcare or Health & Social Care qualification would be highly desirable but not essential.
• Minimum level 2 Housing Qualification and Level 3 Childcare/Health & Social Care Qualification required (or pursued with YMCA support).
• Willingness to complete further study during employment, funded by YMCA.

Responsibilities

• Provide wraparound support in partnership with a Youth Support Worker for our young people.
• Be keyworker to around 10–15 young people with challenging starts in life.
• Use trauma‑informed approaches to co‑produce support plans, risk assessments and safety plans.
• Create a positive, nurturing environment while maintaining boundaries and role modeling.
• Collaborate with social workers, housing providers, health professionals, and other agencies to support independent living.

Skills

Communication skills

IT literacy

Microsoft Office

Education

Childcare/Health & Social Care qualification

Level 2 Housing Qualification

Level 3 Childcare/Health & Social Care Qualification

Job description

We are recruiting for a Senior Youth Support Workerto work as part of our dedicated team to help young people to build on life skills tomake the successful transition to independent living.

Using a person-centered approach, you will draw on your previous relevant experience in Supported Housing along with your patience and dedication to achieve positive outcomes for all our young people.

YMCA Robin Hood group provides temporary supported accommodation for young people who have found themselves homeless through no fault of their own. Working in partnership with the local authority, we provide short term, supported accommodation to enable the young person to move on to independent living.

You will passionately share in our belief that everyone should have a fair chance to discover who they are and what they can become.

As a Senior Youth Support Worker, your day to day role will include:

• Working in partnership with a Youth Support Worker to provide a seamless level of support to our young people.
• Keyworker to around 10-15 young people, who have had challenging starts in life and struggle to build positive relationships
• Work with the young person in a trauma informed way to co-produce support plans, risk assessments, Outcome Stars, crisis plans and safety plans.
• Creating a positive, nurturing and trusted environment for young people, always displaying unconditional positive support, whilst maintaining boundaries.
• Act as a positive role model.
• Working collaboratively with other agencies and professionals including social workers, personal advisors, housing providers, health professionals, drug and alcohol treatment workers, criminal justice practitioners to deliver wraparound support
• Encouraging young people to problem-solve and identify coping strategies when experiencing trauma, distress, self-harm, anger etc
• Proactively support young people to plan to move on to independent living. This includes advising on housing options, supporting with applications for housing to local authorities and exploring private sector accommodation options.
• Encouraging young people to develop life-skills such as cleaning, cooking, budgeting, engaging with health services etc.
• Encouraging young people to engage with education, training or employment.
• Helping young people to navigate the Benefits systems, supporting with applications.

About You

You will have the passion and drive to make a difference to a young persons life, where you will use all your transferrable skills to achieve positive outcomes.

Whether your background is in supporting adults, children or young people, can you:

think fast?

multi-task?

show compassion and care?

If you have experience of working with people but now wish to make a difference by working with Young People, this could be a brilliant opportunity for you to work more closely with them to see their achievements and development, get hands on in helping to shape a young persons future and see the difference you can make!

A Childcare or Health & Social Care qualification would be highly desirable but not essential. As we provide Commissioned Services, you must be willing to complete further study which is a mandatory part of the role. You will be supported by YMCA to complete a minimum level 2 Housing Qualification and a level 3 Childcare/Health & Social Care Qualification (both nationally recognised qualifications). You will be enrolled after you have completed your probation. This will be fully funded by YMCA and you will be given time during your working week to complete these studies.

Your communication skills will be your greatest strength and you will have experience of dealing with difficult situations, and challenging people and handling conflict appropriately.

You will need to be confident using computers and IT; we use a number of different IT packages that you will need to pick up (with training) and use as part of your every day work. You will need to be comfortable with all Microsoft packages too.

You will work 37.5 hour per week over 5 days on our rota which covers our service from 8am to 8pm, 7 days a week, 365 days per year.

Our standard shifts are 8am - 4pm, 12pm to 8pm weekdays and 10am to 6pm at weekends.

We plan our rota in advance as a team. We will endeavour to accommodate your personal preferences and your availability; We value your outside of work commitments and hobbies to ensure a positive work-life balance.

There is no requirement for lone working and you will always be on shift with other colleagues.

This post is subject to a satisfactory enhanced DBS check (paid for by YMCA) and registration with the DBS Update Service. We reserve the right to withdraw this role before the closing date should we be able to appoint to the role.

Hours

37.5

We offer the following benefits from day 1 of your employment with us:

• Equivalent of 23 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) increasing 1 day each year for your first 5 years!
• Workplace pension with Royal London (3% employer contribution, 5% employee contribution)
• 4 x Life Insurance/Death in Service whilst in the pension scheme
• Reduced school holiday childcare places at YMCA Camp Williams Nottingham & Newark
• 10% off in our hospitality venues including the Malt Cross and the Café at our Activity Village in Newark.
• Pastoral support
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Excellent opportunities for development and progression
• Support for further study up to post-graduate level 7 courses to support your development
• £500 refer a friend scheme applicable across the Group
• Regular ongoing inhouse training
• Eligible to join the Blue Light Discount scheme
• Staff events and annual celebrations

On passing your probation, you can select from one of the following additional benefits:

• Private medical and dental cashback scheme with Westfield Health and access to Westfield Rewards for high street discounts
• £120 cash annual contribution towards either:
  Travel costs or;
  Childcare costs or;
  Private gym membership