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Youth Support Worker

Employer
St Mungo's
Location
Witney and Carterton, West Oxfordshire
Salary
£21,589 - £25,295pa
Closing date
23 Apr 2019

Job Details

Youth Support Worker

£21,589 - £25,295pa

Witney and Carterton, West Oxfordshire

37.5hrs per week

St Mungo’s influences and campaigns nationally to prevent homelessness and help people rebuild their lives.  We also deliver a range of life-changing services via 200 projects across southern England.

If you are looking for a career where the rewards speak for themselves, you are in the right place.   You will be joining a supported housing service, based across several sites in Witney and Carterton that provides support for 26 young people aged 16-25.

Your challenge?

  • To build a positive rapport with clients and take a holistic approach to each individual’s needs and aspirations.
  • To boost confidence in our clients and promote opportunities for positive change.
  • To support each client’s journey into independent living.


To succeed, you will need to be self-motivated, have strong communication and social skills, as well as a non-judgmental attitude and a positive outlook.   We will also be looking for a resilient yet caring nature and a passion for coaching, motivating and empowering others.   The post will require you to work across several Projects between Witney and Carterton.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities in support of their personal and professional development.

Above all, you will have the reward of knowing you are bringing positive change to young people’s lives.

Flexibility is required as you will be working a shift rota that will includes one weekend in three.

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Closing date: 10.00am  23 April 2019.
Interview and assessments on:  3 May 2019.


It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check, will be undertaken for the successful candidate. 

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2019, we are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Company

St Mungo's Broadway provides a bed and support to more than 2,500 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, and works to prevent homelessness, helping about 25,000 people a year.  We support men and women through more than 250 projects including:

Emergency, hostel and supportive housing projects Advice services Specialist physical and mental health services Skills and work services We currently work across London and the south of England including in Bristol, Reading, Milton Keynes, Oxfordshire and Sussex, as well as managing major homelessness sector projects such as StreetLink and the Combined Homelessness and Information Network (CHAIN).

 

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