Housing Support Worker in Glasgow, Scotland

Are you passionate about empowering young people and helping them reach their full potential? Barnardo's are looking for creative, nurturing and motivated individuals to join our friendly team at our 16 Glasgow Service. In this role, you'll be supporting young people aged 16-25 living in shared accommodation and in the community as they work toward independence. If you're driven to make a meaningful difference in a young person's life, we'd love to hear from you!

Location: New City Road, Glasgow, Scotland, G4 9JT

Hours / Shift Pattern: 37 hours per week. Shifts include sleepovers, day shift and back shift; this includes weekend work.

About the Service: Glasgow 16 service has over 30 years' experience of supporting care leavers within Glasgow through our housing support services. Our housing support services include 2 residential accommodations for young people to group live to develop their skills within a group setting with staff support. We also have 18 flats within Glasgow which we offer outreach services to.

About the Role: As a Housing Support Worker, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing one-to-one support, encouraging young people to maintain their accommodation, build positive relationships with neighbours, safeguard their wellbeing, and access local community services.
• Designing and delivering flexible, individualised programmes that reflect each young person's needs, aspirations, and goals.
• Managing challenging behaviour constructively while maintaining professional boundaries, safety, and openness.
• Producing clear written reports, maintaining accurate records within an open recording system, and encouraging young people to contribute to their own documentation.

About You: In your application, you should demonstrate:

• HNC/SVQ3 or equivalent qualification.
• Experience of working with vulnerable young people in a supportive role.
• Strong understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of issues surrounding leaving care and social inclusion.
• Evidence of trauma informed practice.
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including sleep-ins.

When completing your application please refer to your skills, knowledge and experience in relation to the Person Specification and Job Description. This should be done with an understanding of the context of the service described.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Pay & Reward Framework: We know that our colleagues go above and beyond in delivering our vital work, driven by their passion and commitment to Barnardo's values. 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. For all these reasons, we are committed to a new approach to pay and reward, to ensure it is fair, attractive and progressive, which was rolled out in April 2023. This is a positive change for the charity, and a part of our People & Culture Strategy. It will assist us in supporting colleagues to belong, thrive and grow in their colleague journey at Barnardo's and in time will offer clear routes of progression for colleagues in both their career and their pay. Whilst the full pay band and salary range is advertised, our approach to starting salaries is to appoint between the minimum to mid-point of the pay band; this ensures that pay steps are available to reward our colleagues annually based on their contribution to excellence and alignment to our values and behaviours. More details on Barnardo's pay framework can be found upon application.

Benefits Workplace Offer: 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 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.

Cycle to work scheme.

Interest free season ticket loans.

Discounts and cashback from 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.

About Barnardo's: We are committed to being an inclusive employer and cultivating a culture where everyone can belong and thrive through inclusion and connectivity. We want our workforce to be reflective of the communities we work with, and for equality, diversity and inclusion to be embedded in everything we do. We are a Disability Confident Leader, are progressing our ambition to be an anti-racist organisation with Anti-Racism Commitments and actions in place and have networks for colleagues who are disabled, LGBT, Black and Minoritised Ethnic and Women. We particularly encourage applications from Black and Minoritised Ethnic and/or disabled candidates who are currently underrepresented in our workforce. For disabled applicants, we offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.