Support Workers - Housing and Homelessness in Paisley

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.

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

The 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.

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.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of safeguarding policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of issues surrounding leaving care and social inclusion.
• Flexibility to work a variety of shifts, including sleep-ins.

We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible. 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. 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.

Our hybrid working initiative is based on trust, flexibility and empowerment. 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.

Benefits:

• 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.
• Cycle2work 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.

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.