Key Worker

Key Worker - Housing First Chesterfield – Permanent, Full Time

Could you empower somebody to gain the most from their life?

Our Housing First service in Chesterfield provides a secure home to people who are currently homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to other complexities, which may include mental health conditions, substance misuse or offending behaviour. We believe that everyone has the right to a safe and secure place to call home and the stability that brings.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Key Worker to work within our team. Our approach is to work with customers based on their strengths. We are looking for an individual with real commitment to supporting our customers to achieve their aspirations, goals and help them maximise their full potential.

For our perfect candidate we are offering a role working in a caring and friendly team, with a great package of benefits.

More about the role:

Our aim is to provide stable, independent home and intensive personalised support to homeless people with multiple and complex needs following the Housing First principles and model of support. The role can be challenging and is highly rewarding.

To be successful, you will:

• Equip our customers with personal, social, vocational and practical life skills; enabling them to take control of their life, live independently within the community and successfully manage their tenancy
• Have a full driving license and access to a vehicle
• DBS check required
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and risks our customers experience and an understanding of how to develop plans of support to overcome these
• Use a strengths-based approaches to support individuals to realise their potential.

Who you are:

You will demonstrate enthusiasm about helping others, be approachable and encouraging with customers to achieve their goals. The successful candidate will need to:

• Have experience of supporting vulnerable people in the community and working closely with partner agencies
• Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and risks our customers experiences and develop plans to overcome these
• Be a great communicator both verbally and in writing
• Have a creative approach to problem solving
• Be able to use a wide range of digital software
• Great organisation and observational skills
• Possess a positive "Can Do" solution focused attitude to fit in with a small team and build on the successes of this excellent service

Who we are:

At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.

Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.

Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Our Benefits

• Starting Salary: £22,389 per annum (pro-rata) plus Essential Car User allowance of £94.36 per month plus mileage expenses dependant on holding a full driving license and access to a vehicle
• Working hours: 37 hours per week - Monday to Friday
• Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, plus statutory bank holidays and an additional 4 SYHA days
• Pension contribution
• Excellent Flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time and job share.
• Excellent benefits including:
  • SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts.  Plus advice and resources on healthy eating, financial wellbeing, exercise and mastering your mental health
  • Westfield Health (employer paid)
  • Counselling
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you including access to the Institute of Employability Professionals.

For more information about our range of benefits, please visit the Your Wellbeing and Feeling at Home pages on our Careers site.

At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.

Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.

For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 this is an excluded job.

To Apply, please click here: https://careers.syha.co.uk/vacancy/key-worker-580643.html

For an Informal Discussion Contact: Shelley Joynes, Project Lead on s.joynes@syha.co.uk

Closing Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025

Interview Dates: 16th April 2025