Duty Worker in Nottingham

DUTY WORKER –UASC, UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM-SEEKING CHILDREN SERVICE, NOTTINGHAM, PERMANENT, 37HRS, GRADE 2 CORE, £24,000, FTE

• Are you a proactive individual looking to start/continue a career working with young people aged 16-25?
• Do you want a rewarding, flexible role where you can positively affect the lives of young people?
• Do you have an understandingand or can relate to the issues that young homeless people face

Framework is a charity delivering housing, health, employment, support and care services to people with a diverse range of needs across the East Midlands.

The Unaccompanied asylum-seeking childrens service will work directly with Nottinghamshire County Council and The Family Service to accommodate and support asylum seeking children. The service has both core and cluster accommodation including emergency bed spaces for spontaneous arrivals. The aim is to ensure that all support needs are comprehensively met by linking in relevant support services, working alongside the Nottingham Refugee Forum worker.

We are looking for a dedicated and passionate full time Young Persons Duty Worker to be responsible for young adults aged 16 to 25 years old who are referred into our unaccompanied asylum-seeking Services. You will have the commitment to reach out, even to the most challenging young people?

The role is 37 hours per week. working to a rota which includes evenings, weekends, and bank holidays. You will be based over various core services with visits to be made to cluster accommodation in Colwick, Sherwood and Trent Boulevard.

Experience of working with young people is desirable but the ability to build rapport and encourage young people to make informed, good decisions is what is most important.

Why Join Us?

• We invest in you and encourage career progression providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
• Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
• Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
• 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays increasing with service.
• Paid DBS and Update Service.
• Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
• Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures, and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. As one of Nottinghams few Disability Confident Leaders, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

As an organisation we do not offer sponsorship for overseas candidates as our roles do not come under the Shortage Occupancy List (SOL) for the scheme. Any non-UK citizen who wishes to apply for a role within Framework would need to be able to provide valid RTW in the UK without the need for support from us.