Vacancies
All posts are subject to our Positve Action in Recruitment ,Disability Confident and Safer Recruitment processes including enhanced DBS check
Housing Support Worker - Asylum Seeking Young People
£26300 to £27475
35 hours per week (office hours, plus occassional evening work and contribution to on on call rota)
Essential Car User Allowance available of £840 per year
Starting October 25
Closing Date 5th September
One year fixed term pending extension of funding
The ideal candidate for this role will be...
• Someone with lived experience relevant to the lives of the young people we support
• Someone who is passionate about the rights and potential of young people
• Someone with experience supporting young people in a supported housing scheme.
• Someone who has qualifications to Level 3 in a related discipline
• Someone with outstanding organisational skills, able to manage multiple priorities and have excellent attention to detail.
• Someone with knowledge of health and safety / premises related standards.
• Someone with the ability to communicate in a language other than English as spoken by asylum seeking young people ( e.g. Arabic, Tigrinya or other.)
Key responsibilites of the role include (see download for full details)
• To reflect the charity values and ways of working in all of your work
• To support young people (16+) to live in a safe and independent manner
• To work with creativity in both one to one and group settings with young adults who are unaccompanied asylum seekers
• To maintain accurate, outcome focused records in line with expected data security/GDPR guidelines.
• To support the delivery of activities, workshops, trips etc
• To encourage young people and community members in all aspects of their activities, education, employment health and wellbeing
• To assist in the management of a small portfolio of properties, carrying out property checks in line with licence agreements, reporting problems, liaising with contractors
To Apply for a job vacancy
We would encourage all applicants to thoroughly read the Job description and person specification before completing the application. You should use the personal statement section to fully expand upon why you meet the requirements of the job. Many parts of the form allow you to dictate your answer.
To apply for a current vacancy you must download any linked documentation (above)
Applicants will only be considered if they fully consider the requirements of the Job Description and Person Specification, and explain their suitability in depth in the application form
We do not consider speculative applications, and only accept Cv's where this is specified for a single post
Enquiries can be directed to our reception - 0161 974 1300
Recruitment will follow our safer recruitment policy which requires a DBS check and references
Positive Action in Recruitment
The new positive action legal provisions mean that it is not unlawful to recruit or promote a candidate who is of equal merit to another candidate, if the chair of the recruitment panel reasonably thinks the candidate has a protected characteristic that is underrepresented in the workforce; or that people with that characteristic suffer a disadvantage connected to that characteristic.
Manchester Settlement is currently underrepresented by staff who are:-
• Men
• Disabled
• Non White British
• LGBTQ+
Other Resources
Manchester Settlement operates robust safer recruitment procedures. All applicants offered positions will be subject to checks including enhanced DBS checks and reference checks