Young Lives Night Support Worker

Night Worker – Young Lives

Location: Weymouth

Salary: £26,899pa + £1,500 Night allowance FTE (salary will be pro-rated for part time)

Permanent, Part Time (2 positions available 1 x 20 hour per week & 1 x 30 hour per week)

The first suitable applicant will be appointed.

YOU is a registered charity that has been providing care, support and advice for over 30 years to vulnerable people, working across Hampshire, Dorset, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Somerset and the Isle of Wight to give them the tools and resources they need to live independent, secure and valued lives. We also maintain an in-house pool of sessional workers, which we refer to as the ‘Premier Crew’.

Essential Requirements:

The ideal night support worker will have

• Working Knowledge of Ofsted framework

• Health and social care qualification or equivalent to NVQ level 3 or equivalent work level experience

• In depth knowledge of support planning and risk management

• An understanding of housing related support and homelessness legislation for vulnerable young people

• In depth knowledge of safeguarding Children and Adults

• Experience of working with young people in a trauma informed care environment

• Proficient in using computers to perform daily operational/administrative tasks and writing reports

• Be passionate about working with young people

The Role:

The Night Support Worker plays a key role in supporting young people to develop independent living skills and achieve positive outcomes. The post holder works in a person-centred, outcome-focused manner to promote engagement with education, training, and employment, while helping young people to avoid eviction and repeat homelessness.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide effective and professional overnight support to young people, ensuring their safety and wellbeing at all times.

• Maintain the security of the building throughout the night, responding appropriately to incidents and accessing the on-call manager in emergencies.

• Support young people to sustain accommodation and develop the skills needed to move on to lower-intensity support or independent living at the earliest appropriate opportunity.

• Ensure communal areas and office spaces are maintained to agreed standards of cleanliness and hygiene.

• Work within the Psychological Informed Environments (PIE) framework to help clients make sustained, positive changes to their lives.

• Collaborative Working

The role involves close partnership working with a wide range of internal and external agencies, including:

1. Community Mental Health Teams

2. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

3. Local Housing Authorities

4. Education and training providers

5. Children’s and Adult Social Care

6. Probation Services and Youth Offending Teams

7. Voluntary sector organisations

8. Emergency services

All work is carried out in line with relevant regulatory requirements, including the Ofsted framework.

Our Benefits:

If you choose to begin a career with our organisation, you are guaranteed:

• Competitive rates of pay and paid travel time, including a higher mileage rate for car sharing.

• Enhanced annual leave entitlements, with the opportunity to buy and sell holiday.

• Matched pension scheme contributions, plus Death in Service Benefit and salary sacrifice options.

• Enhanced sick pay allowances and paid compassionate and emergency dependent leave.

• Excellent and professionally certified training, as well as access to fully-funded apprenticeship programmes.

• Real opportunities to develop in your profession.

• Free health and wellbeing advice via a 24/7, confidential Employee Assistance Programme.

• Everything you need to carry out your role free of charge, which may include a mobile phone, safety equipment and other necessary technology, a uniform where applicable, and of course a nice cup of tea or coffee throughout your day!

• Access to discounts across lots of your favourite stores and online shopping sites.

The You Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our clients. Applicants must be willing to undergo appropriate Adult and Child protection screening, including employment references and DBS check.

Where a role involves engaging in regulated activity relevant to adults and/or children it is an offence to apply for the role if you have been barred from engaging in such regulated activity.