Female Specialist Support Worker (Caseworker)

Weekly hours: 37.5 hours a week, shifts 7.5 hours a day between 8am-10pm including weekends and bank holidays

Here at Peabody, we have several opportunities for Female Specialist Support Workers on a permanent basis at our female only scheme in Stoke Newington, London.

The service is part of our Complex Needs Service in London and is a supported housing scheme for single homeless females aged 16-21, including care leavers and ex-offenders with high support needs. We support young women to gain independence, supporting them holistically to reach their goals/aspirations and move on to independent living.

This female only scheme is supervised across 7 days, 24 hours a day. Please note for this reason, we are looking for female applicants only as it is an all-women’s service. The Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1, Paragraph 1 applies to this post.

What we’re looking for:

* Do you have a background of working with vulnerable young females (18-21 years) within either a social housing, education or charity sector, where the focus has been their development and personal growth?

* Do you have lived or professional experience of managing complex needs, which include homelessness, mental health or any other high risk or high harm behaviours or high vulnerability?

* Do you have experience of working with young people who have challenging behaviour or conflict where you can engage, be approachable and provide required constructive support?

* Do you have thorough and up to date knowledge of safeguarding and trauma informed principles?

If so, then Peabody has the perfect opportunity for you!

A bit about the role:
As a Female Specialist Support Worker, you will be working with a team of highly motivated, compassionate, and dedicated colleagues to help young women live independently. Your role is to support a caseload of 18-21 year olds, all with varying needs, so they are ready to live independently after a period of 12 months.

Put simply, if you’ve ever wanted a job where you can really make a positive difference to someone’s life, this is it.

Some of the key results for the role include:

* Work closely with your colleagues and a range of external agencies in engaging young people in their support programme and achieving their goals.

* Plan and deliver fun and meaningful activities for young people living at the project, whilst adhering to safeguarding and health and safety procedures.

* Keep the project clean and tidy.

* Bring a discreet and sensitive approach with strong professional boundaries and be able to confidently deal with tense and difficult situations.

* Safeguarding and some knowledge of the benefit system.

Key Points:

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check.

You must be able to work shifts between 8AM to 4PM and from 2PM to 10PM across 7 days per week including bank holidays.

You must have thorough knowledge and/or experience of Safeguarding Young Adults.
Development opportunity - if you do not already have an NVQ level 3 in a related subject we would be willing to support you to achieve one!

A bit about us:
It started over 160 years ago with one man’s desire to improve the lives of poverty-stricken Londoners. Today, we have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties and around 20,000 care and support customers. But the desire remains the same – to create homes and communities where people can flourish.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

* Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays.

* Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.

* 4 x Life Assurance

* Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates

* Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications

* Two additional paid volunteering days each year

* Family friendly policies

* Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

Closing date: 17th May 2024.

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody are not a UK licenced sponsor and any sponsorship with another employer is not valid for this role