Night Project Worker

Night Project Worker – Viewpark (VIENPW0621)

28 hours per week

Salary scale: £20,884 - £21,967 (pro rata) – Pay Award Pending

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with the right values to join our service in Viewpark to assist and support vulnerable homeless people to achieve better lives.

The successful candidate will be expected to provide a meaningful support service to identified individuals who live in the project and/or in the community. You will provide a quality service tailored to the assessed needs of each individual by identifying, planning and facilitating support to enable appropriate move-on options for each service user. You will use all of your knowledge and experience to help service users build their life skills and prepare for independent living.

The post will involve 3 – 4 shifts per week between 23:00 and 07:00. The post is lone working.

You will have an SVQ3 qualification in social care. Other essentials include: experience of working with vulnerable people, addiction issues and challenging behaviour; effective written and verbal communication; knowledge of homelessness issues; and, above all, the determination to make a difference in the lives of our service users.

The service works within a model of delivery built around Psychologically Informed Environments.

If successful, you will be required to register with the Scottish Social Services Council within 6 months of your start date. After registration, there is a requirement to be qualified and to maintain professional learning.

In return, we will offer you excellent learning and development opportunities, competitive annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, access to employee assistance programmes such as counselling, and life assurance.

To apply, please visit www.btha.org.uk/items/BTHA-Jobs to download the application pack with reference VIENPW0621.

The closing date for submission of completed application forms is

12 noon on Wednesday 30 June 2021

Forms can be submitted electronically to recruitment@btha.org.uk or by post to

Blue Triangle (Glasgow) Housing Association,

3rd Floor, 100 Berkeley Street, Glasgow G3 7HU.