Weekend Housing Worker

1625 Independent People; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 30 days pro rata

Health cash plan

Supportive team

Disability Confident Employer

Job summary

1625 Independent People in Bristol is seeking a part-time, weekend-based role at St George’s House to support young people and manage housing tasks. This 0.5 FTE post offers flexible weekend shifts (Sat/Sun and occasionally Fri) with a permanent contract and pro-rata pay.

You will engage residents, support housing operations, and help ensure safety and community within the building, with full training provided and a strong commitment to inclusion and safeguarding.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Facilitate lots of varied positive engagement over weekends.
• Help with support and housing management tasks, such as turning around void rooms, collecting Service Charge payments and reporting repairs.
• Ensure the security of the building when on shift.
• Use understanding of the complex needs of young people to manage challenging behaviour.
• Coordinate and co-deliver activities on site, including residents’ meetings.

Job description

We are excited to be recruiting into our St George’s House team. We are the only high support accommodation-based service for young people in Bristol, pioneering the way for supporting them in the city.

Do you have a desire to support young people? Would you like to develop excellent support and housing management experience? Do you want the flexibility of a part-time role? Maybe looking for a career change? If you answered yes to any of those, we want to hear from you.

We aim to build a more diverse workforce that reflects the young people we support, including those from migrant, refugee and asylum‑seeking communities. We therefore warmly encourage applications from individuals who are currently under‑represented at 1625, including people from Black/Black British backgrounds, Muslim and male candidates, and anyone with relevant lived experience.

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.

Who are we?

We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625 we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.

How we work

At 1625 our work is rooted in Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma‑Informed Practice (TIP). Our Psychologically Informed Framework shapes how we build relationships, use our spaces, and support young people. This means we prioritise safety, trust, collaboration, and understanding the impact of trauma in every interaction. You don’t need prior experience in PIE or TIP to apply - we’ll support you to learn and develop these approaches in the role.

What you will be doing:

• By using a creative and flexible approach, you will facilitate lots of varied positive engagement over weekends.
• By being well organised, efficient, and effective, you will help with support and a whole host of housing management tasks, such as helping to turn around void rooms, collecting Service Charge payments and reporting repairs.
• By being vigilant and responsible, you will ensure the security of the building when on shift.
• By using your understanding of the complex needs of young people, as well as your problem‑solving skills, you will manage challenging behaviour when it happens.
• By co‑ordinating and co‑delivering activities on site, including residents’ meetings, you will work with individuals and groups of young people so that they are encouraged to meaningfully occupy their time and get involved.

You will be working weekends, including some Fridays, and will be based in the High Support Team. Your line manager will be the St George’s House Senior Project Worker.

Our Competency Development Framework sits at the heart of how we work at 1625. It links our values with the behaviours we expect to see in everyday practice and supports colleagues to learn, reflect and develop. It also means our recruitment is grounded in behaviours, not just experience, so applications, interviews and job profiles all focus on how we work, not only what we do.

No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.

Contract details:

• Hours per week: 20 on average, as in some weeks, you’ll work 16 hours (Sat/Sun) and in some other weeks you’ll work 24 hours (Fri/Sat/Sun) - (This represents 0.5 FTE)
• Contract type: Permanent
• Pay: £27,709 - £29,071 (pro rata based on 0.5 FTE)
• The location: You will be based in St George’s House, close to Bristol’s main bus station as well as the vibrant city centre.
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Tuesday, 03 November 2026, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
• Interviews are on Tuesday, 10 November 2026.
• You will be asked to answer 5 questions at the top of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
• Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form.
• Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to our main office in Old Market. An online application will then be created for you.
• For support with your application, skills, training, and your career - Skills Connect ’s dedicated advisors can assist you.

A few benefits at 1625:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time colleagues).
• Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF.
• A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing.
• “Colleagues are valued and supported, people like working at 1625 and you can tell that by the culture and atmosphere in the offices.”, Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2025.
• “I feel genuinely so proud to and really feel that the values and motivation behind the work we do aligns with who I am and who I want to be.” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, on the vacancy page of our website .
• 1625 is a Disability Confident Employer.

Equitable opportunities for everyone

We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications.

As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager.

We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer , and have made the Menopause Workplace , Mental Health at Work , and Bristol Equality Charter pledges.

Please see our Policies section on the website, for further information.

£27,709 - £29,071 (pro rata based on 0.5 FTE)