iPeople SC Solutions is recruiting Young People Support Workers to work for our client based in Birmingham and the Wolverhampton area.
The successful candidate can make a real difference to the lives of young people by providing advice and guidance that can improve their longer-term prospects in life.
The successful candidate will support young people aged 16-25 who have a wide range of support needs, including mental health issues, problems associated with substance misuse, issues relating to family breakdown and support geared towards helping first-time young mothers and their babies.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support young people to find, establish and maintain their homes and tenancies and preventing homelessness
- Provide intensive, high-level practical support in response to crisis/relapse in partnership with other agencies.
- Provide short-term, focused practical support that enables young people to sustain/maintain their current home
- Developing their independent living skills and opportunities to learn, work and take part in health-promoting and social activities
- Supporting them to stay safe and secure in their homes and in their communities
- Supporting them to access relevant health and social care services
- Promoting young people`s financial inclusion and take-up of benefits
Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm, and roles that require flexibility to work across shift patterns, including days, nights & weekends.
Requirement
- Experience working within a Care environment
- 1 year of experience supporting vulnerable people within a housing or community setting
- Excellent communication skills
- Knowledge of;
- Disadvantaged vulnerable user groups
- Social welfare and health systems
- Housing and Homelessness
- Debt
- Welfare benefits
- Safeguarding
- The ability to offer advice and guidance
- The ability to provide practical support that meets customers` needs
- The ability to respond to a crisis whilst remaining calm
- The ability to develop knowledge, skills, and role in a work-related environment
If you wish to apply for this role, please apply with an up to date CV.
