Support Workers & Mentors Chelsea, England
Job description
Are you looking for a new support opportunity?
Full & Part-time Opportunities
If you are passionate about making a real difference through supporting vulnerable young people we would love to hear from you!
Evolve Housing + Support is a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 1,300 people each year. Evolve offers support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment, and skills training, mentoring, and counselling.
We have two specially adapted properties in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea where we support 40 customers across the two sites (from ages 16-24 years old) who for a variety of reasons are currently homeless. Our customers have a range of support needs and have access to support from us 24 hours a day. The service aims to support young people to improve on their independent living skills, whilst rehabilitating them back into the community. When customers move in, we use the Recovery Model to empower them to make decisions about their support and our person-centred approach enables them to identify their existing strengths and skills so they can achieve their goals and aspirations. We firmly believe customers can move beyond their current support needs and achieve their full potential by developing new skills and accessing opportunities.
Your job role will vary and no one day is the same! Your working week could include supporting customers with immigration applications, helping them to access support for substance abuse, watching a movie or cooking a new recipe in the lounge or going on a wellbeing walk to our local parks!
Whilst with us customers engage in developing life and independent living skills (including building self-esteem, fostering positive relationships, cooking, and budgeting) and therapeutic activities such as art workshops and gardening.
Support into education, training or employment is tailored to individual needs, circumstances, and goals on various levels; from initial advice and volunteering, to signposting to education, courses, apprenticeships, and paid work. Our work is complemented by joint working with local agencies and specialist support services where appropriate fostering and promoting our support around well-being and self-care, mental and physical health, life skills, education, employment and training.
We’re looking for those who are passionate about making a difference to people’s lives, including supporting vulnerable young people to achieve independent living and better manage life issues. We are looking for people who have knowledge of safeguarding issues and how they apply in day-to-day work. Due to the nature of the roles, you’ll need an understanding of the reasons why people become homeless and the needs and challenges they face and of statutory and voluntary resources available to homeless people. Experience working or voluntary in this sector would be beneficial but is not compulsory.
The roles are Support Workers/Mentors with shifts on a pre-planned rolling rota - 5 / days a week including mornings (from 7am), evenings (to 10pm), which also includes mid shifts and weekends.
Closing date: 27th June 2023 at midnight
