Young Person Support Worker (Nights) in Northumberland

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More about your role

As a Night Services Coordinator, you’ll play a key part in supporting customers who may have complex needs, ensuring they feel safe, listened to and supported throughout the evening. You’ll work as part of our Supported Housing team to provide a consistent, high-quality housing management and support service. Your evenings will involve regular walkabouts to make sure the building is safe and secure, monitoring CCTV and responding calmly and professionally to any incidents that may arise, including safeguarding concerns, tenancy issues, antisocial behaviour or mental health crises. You’ll complete routine cleaning in line with the rota, carry out scheduled health and safety checks and ensure any repairs or maintenance issues are reported promptly. Clear, accurate communication is essential in this role. You’ll keep daily administration up to date, including handover notes, support plans and digital communication systems, ensuring colleagues have full visibility of what has taken place overnight. You’ll also be a friendly and reliable point of contact for customers and stakeholders, helping to maintain an environment that feels safe, supportive and well managed.

More about you

This role is on a 2 week rota of 12 hour waking nights from 8pm – 8:30 am. It is essential you meet the following criteria:

• Experience with safeguarding.
• Have worked with vulnerable customers.
• Comfortable with lone working.
• Access to your own car/ valid driving license due to travel between schemes.

Benefits

We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for. We know that there’s always more we can do to make you smile, that’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• Competitive salary, with a salary review yearly
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Excellent holiday package – up to 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to buy or sell leave
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
• A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
• Training and development
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more

What’s next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then click apply. You will be redirected to our careers site where you can discover more about the role, read a full job description and apply directly to us.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application. We are dedicated to creating a supportive and accessible recruitment process for all. We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We’re happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

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We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture so please talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we promise not to judge you for asking. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of reduced hours, flexible start and finish times or compressed hours.

Safeguarding

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone’s responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment. By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.