Youth Worker Jobs

Our Area Leads are new roles that will add capacity and strength to our team of Bereavement Practitioner’s, Family support workers and volunteers across a defined geographic area. The roles will work with the Head of Service delivery and lead Sandy Bear activity across their designated area, develop strong links across a variety of networks and forums to ensure our beneficiaries access the right support, at the right time.

These roles are great for those passionate about having the opportunity to support our families directly, whilst also being involved in broader development work to enable strong collaborations and partnerships which empower people to achieve better outcomes.

We can't do it alone, so you will spend time working with other organisations and services in collaboration to ensure we don't duplicate provision, instead focussing on gaps in services supporting bereavement for Children, young people and families.

Posts are offered on a full-time basis, though flexible working patterns and some reduced hours may be considered.

Are you skilled at building relationships with people?

Got a passion for parenting support and children’s early years?

Use your experience to make a big impact for families and young children in the local area.

We’re seeking a dynamic individual who shares our passion for supporting parents and young children.

In this role you will engage directly with families, visiting them each week to provide holistic support to families with young children, for a wide range of needs.  The Early Years Family Worker will tend to support families facing more complex circumstances. This might include factors like disability or emerging additional needs, multi-agency support, or a history of domestic abuse.

You will play a crucial part in assisting parents as they navigate the challenges of family life. This will involve listening to parents, building on their strengths, and helping them access activities, or help to improve family life.  Additionally, you will work with the children, engaging in play and other activities that support their development. Through role modelling and direct interaction, you will help create a nurturing environment that encourages both parental confidence and child growth.

You will play a crucial part in offering and developing resources tailored to their needs. As well as offering practical support, a key aspect of the role is building trusting relationships. This position offers a meaningful chance to make a positive impact when families need it the most.  Our ideal candidate will:

· Be able to put people at ease and embody the Home-Start ethos of no judgement and #RealLifeParenting

· Have experience working in a family support role

· Have a strong understanding of the needs of families with young children (0-5)

· Have knowledge or experience of supporting children’s early learning and development

· Have safeguarding experience

· Be able to work collaboratively and build positive relationships with a variety of people and organisations.

Hours of work: 24 hours per week

Salary: £29,572 (FTE), pro-rata for part-time hours, actual salary £19,182

We believe that diversity in the workplace enables us to create a relevant, innovative and effective organisation. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from candidates with diverse life experience. We are committed to recruitment that is fair and free from bias.

Home-Start Oxford is a Disability Confident Employer. Please get in touch if you require this information in an alternative format, or to discuss an alternative form of application or other forms of reasonable adjustment.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults. We expect all employees to share this commitment, and we ensure it is reflected in our recruitment and selection practices.

Closing date: Midday on Tuesday 22nd April.  With interviews expected to take place on  Wednesday 30th April.

We offer flexible working, 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays (pro rata), and matched employer and employee contributions to a pension scheme (up to 5%). We guarantee that you’ll be working with incredibly friendly and committed colleagues.

This post is subject to an enhanced criminal record check through the Disclosure & Barring Service.

Family Support Worker 

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of children with disabilities?  Do you want to join a charity dedicated to helping children with disabilities and additional needs reach their full potential?

This driven charity is seeking a compassionate and proactive Family Support Worker to join the team in this brand-new role, shaped by feedback from families to help them move closer to achieving a 'whole family' approach to support.

Position: Family Support Worker

Location: Bridgwater / Hybrid* occasionally

Hours: Part-time, 30 hours per week over 5 days

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £23,114 - £24,702 per annum pro rata (£18,491.20 per annum based on 30 hours per week)

Closing date: Monday 14th April 2025 at 9.00am

Interview Date: Week commencing 28th April 2025 

About the role: 

As the Family Support Worker, you will be crucial in ensuring this brand-new role is a success with consistent communications and comprehensive team support, all whilst maintaining a positive and collaborative approach.

In this role, you will:

• Provide personalised advice, advocacy, and emotional support to parent carers, assessing their needs and signposting them to appropriate services.

• Develop and implement 'whole family' support services, including peer support groups, workshops, and online resources.

• Monitor and report on the impact of our services, identifying gaps and proposing user-led solutions to improve outcomes.

• Collaborate with the Family Support Coordinator to provide follow-up support and cover during periods of absence or increased demand.

About You

The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills, a proactive mindset, and a strong commitment to supporting families of children with disabilities and additional needs. Experience in family advocacy, service development, or working with nonprofit organisations is highly desirable.

You will have:

• Proven experience in advice and information work in a similar role, preferably within a charity or non-profit organisation.

• Experience in developing and implementing support services for families, preferably within the field of disability and / or additional needs.

• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage time effectively, prioritise tasks, and work independently.

• Experience of supporting parent carers or individuals with disabilities/additional needs in an advice, information giving or advocacy role.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and establish trusting relationships with diverse individuals and families.

You will be asked to send your CV along with a covering letter (no longer than two sides of A4) explaining why you are interested in this role and why you believe you would be a good fit. In your letter, detail how your experience aligns with the role and how you meet the requirements outlined in our person specification.

This role is a face to face role and is required to be available to work at our National Therapy Assessment Centre based in Bridgwater, Somerset with occasional working from home.

About the Organisation 

The charity exists to help children with disabilities achieve greater independence by aiming to improve their mobility, communication skills and learning potential through a range of specialist therapies, and the children it works with have a range of conditions including autism, cerebral palsy and genetic disorders such as Down syndrome.

Benefits include:

• Flexible/hybrid working including ways to maintain home / work life balance 

• Minimum 29 days annual leave pro rata (includes three days for Christmas shutdown and one for employee’s birthday) + 8 public holidays per annum pro rata, this increases with length of service to a maximum of 34 days + 8 bank holidays pro rata 

• Enhanced sick leave 

• 3% Employer pension contribution 

• Training and Development opportunities 

• Employee Assistance Programme 

• Long service awards 

The charity is an equal opportunity employer and celebrates diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Other roles you may have experience with could include Family Support Worker, Mental Health Support Worker, Support Worker, Care Worker, Support Team Leader, Social Care Worker, Carer Support, #INDSCP

PLEASE NOTE: This role is being advertised by NFP People on behalf of the organisation

Salary £11.95 per hour plus mileage expenses

Variable hours (Zero hours Contract)

Peterborough and surrounding areas

Are you looking for a job working with children and with flexibility that could fit alongside you work and family commitments? 

If so, this job could be for you.  

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people. We are proud of our history of providing fostering, children's homes and innovative leaving care services across the UK & Isle of Man.  We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do.  We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal-opportunity employer keen to develop an inclusive workforce where people feel they belong.  We hope to attract applications from under- represented groups, including people from different cultures, nationalities, socioeconomic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religions, faith, sex, orientation, childcare responsibilities, and gender-diverse identities.

About the Role

We are looking to recruit individuals who have the desire to support looked after children and their foster families. 

As a Fostering Support Worker (Bank) you would work closely with the supervising social workers, local authorities and other professionals to support foster placements.

You would have the ability to manage your availability.

The role will involve:

• Planning and implementing appropriate activities to meet the individual needs of looked after children
• Running support groups, both for looked after children and birth children
• Providing support sessions during the day, evenings or weekends
• Transporting young people to activities and appointments and supervising family contact sessions
• Appropriate training will be provided to assist in this role.

Applicants should have

• Experience of working with children and young people in a paid or voluntary capacity
• Experience of administrative work including data entry and report writing
• Ability to work with challenging behaviour and resolve conflict
• Ability to maintain personal and professional boundaries
• Good communication and administrative skills and the ability to build and sustain sound professional relationships

Recruitment Process

At St Christopher’s we are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in our care. During the recruitment process you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure we capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice and vetting requirements.

Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to starting.

Your online application must include a supporting statement addressing the criteria stated in the Person Specification.

We advise to apply as soon as possible as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

It is against the law to apply for work with Children/Young People if you are barred from working in Regulated Activity and if your name is added to a Children Barred List.

All shortlisted candidates invited to interview will be asked to submit a Self-Declaration and Disclosure form which will need to be returned prior to an interview being booked.

Please note this post has a minimum age restriction of 21 for roles working directly with children and young people in our residential and semi-independent Homes in line with the Equality Act ‘occupational requirement’.

We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Support Worker to join our Mental Health Service in Slough.

£24,960.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.

Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

This role enables vulnerable people with mental health needs to maximise independent living skills and opportunities for social inclusion as wells as manage their tenancies. The purpose of this role is to support customers developing the skills needed to move on to other appropriate accommodation with lower levels of support and greater levels of independence.

This role involves early and late shifts as well as occasional weekend and bank holidays.

For a full job description, please visit our website

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

About you:

Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
Approachable and open behaviour
Prefers working as part of a group or team but is able to work independently
Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
Flexible
Takes the initiative to support colleagues if needed
Has good conflict management skills
Is capable of managing time effectively
Open to feedback and self development
Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
Is essentially customer-focused
Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviours
Has a strong work ethic and applies it to everyday work

What you'll bring:

NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent or experience in the social care/charity sector
Practical understanding of mental health conditions and how they impact the life of those affected by them
Excellent communication skills including a good command of spoken and written English in both formal and informal contexts
Demonstrable ability to build positive professional relationships
Experience of working as part of a team
Good command of MS Office, ability to use computer and learn new systems
Experience working in mental health
Experience working in supported living schemes
Experience dealing with challenging behaviours

About us:

Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 120 services, providing support to around 6000 customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:

We focus on Excellence and innovation.
We are Caring and Compassionate.
We are Inclusive and Trusted.
We work in Partnership and are One-Team.

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.

The overall purpose of this role is to lead the development and delivery of CSE’s Future Generations programme. This work programme focuses on ensuring that all young people feel inspired and able to play a meaningful role in catalysing and delivering the transition to a more sustainable and fairer energy system.

Pay and conditions

• The role is full-time (37.5 hours per week).
• The salary for the role will be £41,802 - £53,956 (starting salary will depend on skills and experience).
• You will be entitled to 25 days paid holiday (plus statutory holidays).

CSE offer a range of benefits including, subsidised bike purchase and Tech Scheme, Life Assurance, Health Cash plan, retail discounts and discounted breakdown cover and many more.

We will pay fees and expenses on relevant training courses.

Specific responsibilities

An applicant appointed to the role will be expected to:

• Programme leadership - To lead the continued strategic development and coordination of the Future Generations Work Programme across CSE; to ensure that all staff are able and encouraged to engage young people in their work; to maintain a portfolio of youth focused projects which provide opportunities for young people to develop capabilities for effectively participating in the energy system transition.
• Development – To pro-actively lead the development of innovative and impactful project ideas and funding proposals for the Future Generations programme, and work with the Development and Communications teams to build and manage the relationships, evidence, and plans necessary to secure investment.
• Representation – To provide inspiration and practical guidance both internally and externally (through targeted public speaking, network-building and online media) for the better inclusion of future generations in sustainability and resilience planning; aligning the Future Generation’s programme with CSE’s strategic objectives and fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, and excellence.
• Team and project management – To take responsibility for the planning and overall delivery of Future Generations projects: ensuring that the Future Generations team is well-resourced, highly motivated, and continuously developing their skills, and that project teams are well-led, efficiently coordinated, effectively using CSE systems and processes, and able to deliver work on time, to budget and to client/donor expectations. Provide mentoring to junior members of the LACE team and provide effective and timely senior management support to contribute to overall team wellbeing and cohesion.
• Safeguarding – to act as a safeguarding lead for our work with children and young people. This includes supporting the handling of any handling of reports or concerns (in conjunction with CSE’s dedicated safe guarding officer); pro-actively working to ensure that risks are well understood and managed; keeping policies and procedures up to date; ensuring that safeguarding is prioritized and that expectations of staff, volunteers, trustees, student placements, agency workers and sub-contractors are clear and adhered to.

To see a more detailed list of responsibilities please see the supporting documents attached. These documents are also available to download from our website.

Essential attributes for this role include:

• Minimum L2 qualification in Maths and English. 
• A strong track record of income generation, managing donor relationships and building successful partnerships.
• Experience of effectively developing and managing teams, portfolios of projects and budgets.
• Ability to inspire, engage and collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including young people, staff, trustees, donors, and partner organisations.
• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to apply sector specific knowledge and understanding to project and programme design.
• Advanced skills in monitoring and evaluating youth programmes, identifying and taking forward learning.

Please note, the above is an overview of the skills required for this role. To see the full list of essential and desirable skills please see the attached job description.

How to apply

To apply, please download and complete the application form available from our website. Your application should demonstrate your suitability for the role against the criteria outlined in the person specification. Please send the email containing your completed application form to CSE’s jobs email – can be found on information for applicant’s document.

The closing date for applications is Midday on Monday 7 April 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place Wednesday 23 and Friday 25 April 2025, though this is subject to change.  

If invited to interview, we will ask you to provide evidence of eligibility to work in the UK.

Job Title: Senior Supervising Social Worker - Fostering

Salary: £41,208 + £750 per annum Homeworking Allowance + £1,500 per annum Out of Hours Allowance (once on the rota)

Hours & Contract: 35 Hours per week - Fixed Term Contract for 12 months

Location: Within reasonable travelling distance of Bristol, North Somerset, Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Somerset and Bath & North East Somerset, Wiltshire & Swindon

As a ‘not for profit’ organisation, TACT puts the needs of our children and carers first and look to appoint individuals who are as passionate about fostering as we are. We are a homeworking organisation, and we pride ourselves on our flexible working opportunities, available from day one, an extensive wellbeing programme and our benefits package, all curated to nurture a healthy work life balance for all our employees so they can give an excellent service to our carers and the young people and children we care for.

As a foster care charity, TACT invests all surplus income into services, staff, carers, and child development. This means that we have been able to invest unique projects like TACT Connect, our unique and ground-breaking scheme for TACT care experienced young people and adults,  as well as our expanding Education and Health services. All our activities are built on our commitment to becoming a fully trauma informed organisation, in line with our key values and ethos.

In 2024 TACT became one of the top 5 charities to work for in the UK, placing 5th in the UK Best Companies Work For survey results , and a top 25 mid-sized company to work with across the whole of the UK.   97% of our people feel proud to work with TACT and think that TACT cares about their wellbeing, while 92% of our people would say they “ love working for TACT”.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the TACT South West Team who work with a therapeutic approach led by trauma informed principles.

If you want to be valued as a professional, be appreciated at work and contribute to better outcomes for the children and young people connected with TACT,  apply now.  

Overall Duties of the Senior Supervising Social Worker will include:

• Provide regular guidance, training and support including regular in person supervisory visits and other communications to Foster Carers
• Ensuring children are visited regularly and are included in TACT activities
• Monitoring outcomes for children and supporting them to reach their full potential
• Identifying the professional and personal needs of foster families to facilitate development and retention

 TACT offer an excellent employee benefits package including:

• 31 days paid holiday plus 8 annual bank holidays.
• Progression to salary target rate upon completion of 18 months service.
• 45p per mile for business travel.
• Flexible working arrangements (including compressed hours, flexibility around core hours, volunteer days policy).
• Family friendly policies.
• Homeworking ‘bundle’ including annual allowance, IT equipment and a loan for home office set up.
• Help@Hand Employee Assistance Programme (including CBT counselling, 24/7 remote GP appointments, physiotherapy, mental health support and second opinions on serious diagnosis).
• An hour a week of live, expert led activities through the Annual Employee wellbeing Programme.
• Menopause Policy and free Menopause Clinician Appointments.
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme (salary sacrifice).
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities for all roles.

The xxx may be homebased within England, Scotland or Wales but will be required to travel to face-to-face meetings in the xxx at least once a month and on other occasions for training and team wellbeing events.

A Standard / Enhanced DBS clearance is required for this role and will be processed by TACT on your behalf.

Closing Date: Midnight on 24th April 2025

Interview Date: 5th May 2025 (via Microsoft Teams)

Safeguarding is everyone’s business and TACT believes that only the people with the right skills and values should work in social work.  As part of TACT’s commitment to safeguarding, we properly examine the skills, experience, qualifications, and values of potential staff in relation to our work with vulnerable young children.  We use rigorous and consistent recruitment approaches to help safeguard TACT’s young people.  All our staff are expected to work in line with TACT’s safeguarding policies.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than advertised if the volume of applications is excessive, you are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience.

TACT does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies, nor the fees associated with them.

The post holder will focus on delivery of the child, adolescent to parental violence and abuse programme which is incorporates an Non Violent Resistance approach.

Specialist Child to Parent Violence delivery:

· Advocate for the rights of children to be respected, heard and protected.

· Deliver sessions for parents using Non Violent Resistance (NVR) techniques and child and family members, applying a systematic family approach to managing violence and abuse in the home.

· Adhere to the relevant programme manuals for parents as well as for the children and young people.

· Use motivational interviewing techniques and strength based approaches to engage with families.

· Support parents and young people to learn skills and knowledge to deal with behaviour in a non-violenct way, using NVR and trauma informed CBT methods.

· Work closely with other statutory and voluntary professionals to ensure appropriate steps are taken to protect where there is an imminent risk to another person. Apply RISE’s escalation procedures.

· Be responsible and accountable for working with Team leader and/or Service Manager and Advanced practitioner to ensure risk is reviewed on a weekly basis.

· Attend monthly risk review and practice development meetings with Team leader or Advanced practitioner to ensure effective risk management procedures are applied at all times.

· Attend training sessions to enhance their delivery and understanding of NVR.

· Be personally accountable for the completion of assessments, pre and post questionnaires, and End of Intervention reports, and ensure they are to a high standard.

· Provide support and consultancy to other professionals to ensure appropriateness of referrals  and improve understanding on NVR and CBT techniques and working with families (parents and children and young people.

· Ensure effective planning for the delivery of each intervention in advance of the session.

· Partake and pass all relevant NVR and other child, young people  and parent centred training to undertake this specialist work.

· Deliver community training as required.

Recording and administrative tasks:

· Ensure timely and accurate recording of all relevant data (attendance, feedback, mid-way and end of intervention reports) using systems provided and in line with performance standards.

· Maintain an accurate audit trail of all relevant communication with partner organistions involved.

· Ensure completion of pre and post questionnaires in line with RISE’s Social Impact strategy.

· Contribute to the evaluation and evidencing of social impact, including questionnaires and service user case studies.

General tasks:

· Develop excellent relationships with customers and respond positively to their needs.

· Be a strong advocate for RISE interventions, representing RISE and its interventions at key stakeholder events.

· Attend Clinical Consultancy  and Practice meetings to support safe practice and develop resilience during the delivery of demanding work as directed by the Senior Practitioner.

Confidentiality and Information Security

· Adhere to the Data Protection and Freedom of Information Acts and comply with the terms of RISE’s Privacy, IT and Data protection policies, and that of our partners where relevant.

· Comply with security measures in accordance with RISE policies and our partner’s E-mail and Internet use.

Safeguarding Children, Young People and Vulnerable Adults

· RISE has a legal Duty of Care to all persons with whom we work- please see our Duty of Care Statement .

· RISE is committed to keeping children, young people  and vulnerable adults safe. Post holders with direct service user contact are responsible for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults s/he is responsible for or comes into contact with. Post holders not in direct offender contact have a general responsibility for safeguarding children, young people  and vulnerable adults in the course of their daily duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Other duties

• Undertake other duties as may be required which are commensurate with the grade and nature of the post.
• Cover for other posts as appropriate, and willingness to be trained in new interventions.

Location: Sheffield

Salary: £31,133 per annum pro rata plus £802 per annum pro rata essential car user allowance

Contract: Fixed term ending March 2027

Hours: Part time - 26.25 hours per week.

Closing date: Tuesday 8th April 2025 at 11.30 pm

Do you have a good understanding of child development and the needs of homeless families and children plus proven experience of supporting parents and children with complex needs? Then join Shelter as a Children & Families Support Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role aimed at minimising the impact of bad housing, homelessness and exclusion in the Sheffield area.

About the role

With your own caseload of families, you will act as their key worker and support them to either resettle or prevent homelessness. Your primary focus will be on households where some tailored interventions are required around the needs of the children in order to stabilise their housing situation and enable the family to thrive.

Accordingly, you will provide intensive, tailored support as part of a whole family approach in a 1-2-1 setting and through group work. You will also need to regularly visit clients’ homes, schools and community venues across the city and liaise with other agencies in the community in order to provide a co-ordinated service.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About you

You have knowledge of child development and a strong understanding of homeless children and families, with experience of supporting parents, children and young people who have complex needs.  You also have knowledge of housing, homelessness and ASB legislation and welfare benefits that affect families and the skills to network and gather information as well as advocacy, negotiation and problem-solving skills.

You will need to be able to demonstrate that you have worked within, or understand, a safeguarding framework, are IT literate and have experience of managing a caseload and can prioritise, organise and set boundaries. With a full driving licence, you will have access to a vehicle for work purposes, an allowance and mileage will be paid.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

About the team

Shelter Sheffield provide housing advice and support to people across the city, with a focus on emergency homelessness, intensive support for children and families, people experiencing domestic abuse and people with multiple and complex needs. We take a holistic approach to help people deal with interrelated issues that can impact their ability to keep a home and work for systemic changes to prevent homelessness and support over 5000 people every year.

About Shelter

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday millions of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

How to apply:

Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit a CV and a separate supporting statement to the following points of the ‘About You’ section of the job description of no more than 350 words each.

Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate you address the following behaviours throughout your responses:

• We work together to achieve our shared purpose
• We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive mindset

Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.

Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

If so, look no further! We are seeking a full time  Family Support Worker to work across our Family Hubs within Birmingham  This is a fantastic opportunity to become part of a passionate and committed team and be an active member of the wider Family Hub Network.

Our Family Support team take an active role in working with partner organisations, local communities, and residents to achieve best outcomes for the children and families.You will be working with a strengths-based, trauma informed and relational approach to engage and support families, ensuring each family gets the right support at the right time.

Some key activities/objectives include:

• Plan and support delivery of targeted service elements, producing KPI's and outcomes.
• To strengthen families in a trauma informed way; promote resilience and self-care to prevent children and young people requiring more specialist and intensive support through high quality and impactful direct work.
• To support families to access universal services as appropriate.
• To offer a range of other evidence-based interventions to support their work with families.
• Work with the wider teams within the Family Hub Offer to meet the needs of the service across the borough.
• Working in collaboration with agencies to strengthen the exit strategy to ensure sustainable change.
• To capture the voice and experience of children and young people and utilise this to inform and develop service delivery.
• The occasional evening and weekend work to meet the needs of the service.

Please note due to the high volume of applications for some posts, this advert might close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role as soon as possible.

Job Title: Floating Support Worker

Location:Hybrid working with a requirement to occasionally work at Head Office (Vauxhall, London) and co-locations across London
Salary: £28,104 per annum, inclusive of London weighting allowance if applicable
Contract type: Full Time, Fixed Term Contract (Until March 2026)

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

We want kind and empathic people to work at Refuge, who believe in equality, diversity, and inclusion, are experts in their area of knowledge, want to make a positive difference and improve the lives of the women and children we support.

This is an opportunity to join Refuge as a Floating Support worker to provide high quality practical and emotional support to survivors of domestic violence and their children in the community.

The post-holder will support the Ascent Pan London Service in building sustainable referral pathways and joint working protocols with a range of partners working with survivors of domestic abuse. You will provide capacity-building in the form of advice, advocacy, support, and briefings across the London boroughs to statutory agencies and community organizations around the needs of Eastern European domestic abuse survivors, to embed best practice across our communities. 

The successful appliant  will have proven experience of providing direct emotional and practical support to women as well as up-to-date knowledge of legislation relating to survivors of gender-based violence. Additionally, you will have excellent casework skills, good written and verbal communication skills, clear professional boundaries and be a proactive team player. 

Please note that this post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Closing Date: 09:00am 25 April 2025

Interview Date: 6 May 2025

Refuge is the UK’s largest provider of specialist services, and we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development.

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

We're looking for a kind, compassionate, and resilient Support Worker to join our Learning Disabilities service in Tower Hamlets.

£27,352.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week.

Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

Our benefits include:

Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service

Free DBS

Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card

Fully paid induction programme and further training

ILM courses and Apprenticeship Programmes

Healthcare Cashplan through our partner Healthshield

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme for 24-7 confidential support

Online wellbeing resources

A generous pension - we will contribute up to 4% and life assurance cover up to £10,000 (T&Cs apply)

Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution

Support Workers will provide support to customers to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs of the customers of the service. In some services, this will include providing physical, domestic, emotional and social care. They will work with customers to promote social inclusion and alongside other members of the team to promote independent living, encouraging customers to maximise their skills and choices.

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

For a full job description, please visit our website.

What you'll do:

If a need arises, deliver all aspects of support to enable a customer to develop independent living skills as appropriate to the individual needs of the customer. In some services, this will include delivering personal and physical care as appropriate

Participate in the support planning and risk management. Enable customers to make full use of community facilities by providing support as directed

Enable customers to make full use of leisure and learning-based opportunities in the service as well as in the community by providing support as directed e.g. Gym, swimming and visiting various public amenities

Supporting customers in the delivery of their prescribed health, physio, nutritional and sensory routines with guidance from/in partnership with external healthcare professionals

Partnership working with a range of stakeholders including families, healthcare professionals, external personal assistants other support agencies to maximise outcomes for customers

About you:

Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour

Prefers working as part of a group or team

Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
Flexible

Open to feedback and self development

Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised

Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments

Is confident with high levels of self-esteem

Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication

Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude

Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement

Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour

What you'll bring:

Essential:

NVQ Level 2 or equivalent or experience within charity/social care sector

Desirable:

Experience in working with people with Learning Disabilities and Autism

Experience in PBS approach

Bengali speaking

About us:

Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness and complex needs, young people and care leavers and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:

We focus on Excellence and innovation.
We are Caring and Compassionate.
We are Inclusive and Trusted.
We work in Partnership and are One-Team.

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.

We're looking for a kind, compassionate, and resilient Support Worker to join our Learning Disabilities service in Waltham Forest.
£25,300.00 per annum, working 37 hours per week.

Want to feel like you're making a difference? You'll feel at home here.

Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team. After all, our people are doing something amazing: helping to transform lives every day.

Our benefits include:

• Annual leave increasing up to 30 days with length of service
• Free DBS
• Exclusive discounts and cashback via Reward Gateway® and opportunity to buy a Blue Light Card
• Fully paid induction programme and further training
• ILM courses and Apprenticeship Programmes
• Healthcare Cashplan through our partner Healthshield
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme for 24-7 confidential support
• Online wellbeing resources
• A generous pension - we will contribute up to 4% and life assurance cover up to £10,000 (T&Cs apply)
• Quarterly Staff Awards to reward & recognise our amazing staff's commitment and contribution

As a Support Worker you will be expected to undertake duties and work as part of the staff team to support customers with daily support to achieve personal goals by using person centred approach. Work within a team to communicate, meet the service and Look Ahead objectives and responsibilities whilst working flexibly to respond to the needs of the customers.

This role will require either an experienced, skilled and compassionate person and or a person with great values and willing to learn in order to meet the role specific competencies for this position.

The shift patterns for this role are Monday to Sunday, including early, late and long shifts.

All applicants must be legally eligible to work in the UK by the start of employment as Look Ahead are not able to offer sponsorship.

For a full job description, please visit our website.

About you:

• Good values and personality.
• Trustworthy, able to work in partnership and willing to achieve outstanding outcomes.
• Capable of working as part of a group or team and able to use ow initiatives.
• Able and willing to listen to others and share own ideas and knowledge.
• Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement.
• Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication.
• Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised.
• Is confident, motivated and good self-esteem.
• Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude.
• Is passionate and enthusiastic about his/her career and job experiences.
• Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments with an ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour.
• Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, networks in local business community.
• Approachable and positive behaviour.

What you'll bring:

Essential:

Has relevant sector work experience and good values

IT Skills

Demonstrable experience of supporting vulnerable adults with Learning Disabilities

NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or equivalent or willing to complete the qualification

Desirable:

Other relevant professional memberships and/or specialist qualifications

Local and or familiar with the borough

About us:

Look Ahead is a leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. Our vision is to build better lives through social care and housing in local communities. As an organisation we deliver over 100 services, providing support to thousands of customers each year. Our mission is to co-design and deliver services that offer innovative social care solutions and support people to thrive. We work across mental health, homelessness and complex needs, young people and care leavers and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We have a strong social purpose and we live and work by our values:

• We focus on Excellence and innovation.
• We are Caring and Compassionate.
• We are Inclusive and Trusted.
• We work in Partnership and are One-Team.

Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.

Experienced and passionate about children and young people growing in the Christian faith? Ready to support and create teams that will shape the next generation of Christians? You are the one we are looking for.

We are a church committed to the growth of whole life disciples of all ages. Having seen numerical growth amongst the under 25s in our church, we are looking for someone who can lead this work into the future. Working alongside the wider team of pastors and leadership team, this role willgive you scope to lead the next generation of Jesus-followers in our church family. 

Position: Next Generation Pastor

Responsible to: Pastoral and wider Leadership Team

Location: Gathered church activities and team meetings will be in and around the church; we expect that your preparation work will be done  from home.

Hours: 35 hours per week (full-time); evenings and weekends will be required

Salary: £25,000–£30,000 per annum dependent on experience

Annual leave and benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

How to apply: Click the Quick Apply button below. You’ll be asked to submit a CV highlighting your relevant skills and  experience and a covering letter that will show why this role is a good fit for you at this time. 

Closing date for applications: 30 April 2025.

Interviews will take place in May at times/dates that are most suitable for the short-listed candidates. 

Please note, we’re actively reviewing applications and interviews will be held on a rolling basis. The ad may close early if a successful candidate is found.