Youth Housing Support Worker

Barnardo's North Lanarkshire Youth Housing Support Service are looking for a housing support worker who can provide support to young people who have experienced homelessness.

We are looking for a flexible individual who has a car and are able to travel throughout North Lanarkshire. You will have experience of working with younger adults, preferably within the homeless or housing sector. The successful applicant will be registered with SSSC or be prepared to register on appointment of post. You will be qualified to HNC or SVQ3 level in social care.

Experience and knowledge of issues facing homeless people will be a big advantage as will experience of case management and managing your own diary.

You will work flexibly over a 7 day rota period and will be expected to commit to one evening shift every two weeks and one weekend shift every six weeks.

In return you will be rewarded by becoming part of a happy, friendly, settled work team who are enthusiastic and committed to what they do.

Please see the attached role profile for further information.

This post has funding until March 2022 with a possibility of becoming permanent .

At Barnardo's we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and we expect all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. Our safer recruitment processes mean that the safety and welfare of the child is paramount at every stage of the process and therefore, we adopt rigorous scrutiny in our pre-employment checking. This post is subject to a range of pre-employment checks including a Criminal Records Enhanced Disclosure for the successful candidate.

Documents

• Our basis and values
• Project Worker 1 - Job Description & Person Profile.pdf (76.34 KB)
• Recruitment of Ex-offenders Policy (Oct 2018).pdf (0.56 MB)