Support Assistant Mentor(Burton White-House)

Permanent, Full time (37.5 hours per week). You will need to be able to work shifts on a pre-planned rolling rota - 5 /7 days a week including mornings (from 7am to 3pm), evenings (2pm to 10pm) - these also include mid shifts and weekends.

If you are passionate about making a real difference through supporting vulnerable young people, we would love to hear from you!

Evolve Housing + Support is a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 1,300 people each year. Evolve offers support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment, and skills training, mentoring, and counselling.

We have an especially adapted property in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea – Burton White House where we support 24 customers (from ages 16-24 years old) who for a variety of reasons are currently homeless. Our customers have a range of support needs and have access to support from us 24 hours a day. The service aims to support young people to improve on their independent living skills, whilst rehabilitating them back into the community. When customers move in, we use the Recovery Model to empower them to make decisions about their support, and our person-centred approach enables them to identify their existing strengths and skills so they can achieve their goals and aspirations. We firmly believe customers can move beyond their current support needs and achieve their full potential by developing new skills and accessing opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Your job role will vary and no one day is the same! Your working week could include supporting customers with immigration applications, helping them to access support for substance abuse, watching a movie or cooking a new recipe in the lounge or going on a wellbeing walk to our local parks!
• Running activities for the young people in the service.
• Whilst with us customers engage in developing life and independent living skills (including building self-esteem, fostering positive relationships, cooking, and budgeting) and therapeutic activities such as art workshops and gardening.
• Support into education, training or employment is tailored to individual needs, circumstances, and goals on various levels; from initial advice and volunteering, to signposting to education, courses, apprenticeships, and paid work.
• Our work is complemented by joint working with local agencies and specialist support services where appropriate fostering and promoting our support around well-being and self-care, mental and physical health, life skills, education, employment, and training.

We’re looking for those who are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives, including supporting vulnerable young people to achieve independent living and better manage life issues. We are looking for people who have knowledge of safeguarding issues and how they apply in day-to-day work. Due to the nature of the roles, you’ll need an understanding of the reasons why people become homeless and the needs and challenges they face and of statutory and voluntary resources available to homeless people. Experience working or voluntary in this sector would be beneficial but is not compulsory.

Qualifications

We are looking for people who have knowledge of safeguarding issues and how they apply in day-to-day work. Due to the nature of the roles, you’ll need an understanding of the reasons why people become homeless and the needs and challenges they face and of statutory and voluntary resources available to homeless people. Experience working or voluntary in this sector would be beneficial but is not compulsory.

Attached to this advert you will find a document that gives you more information about the service where this role is based.

Evolve Housing + Support is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including people who have experienced homelessness themselves. Equality, diversity and inclusion are key objectives for us, and we reflect this in our recruitment practices, actively seeking applications from all parts of the community regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or disability.

You will need to have the correct right to work in the UK in place, as Evolve does not have a sponsorship licence.

Benefits

• Over 6 weeks holiday per annum (rising with service)
• Ability to buy or sell additional one week holiday per annum
• Employee paid DBS checks
• Occupational sick pay
• Employer contributory pension scheme
• 4 x Life Assurance
• Medical Cash Back Plan
• Yulife Employee Assistance & Rewards Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Full training and induction programme