***Bank Staff Wanted for Young People's Supported accommodation***

Are you an empathetic, positive, and kind person looking for a flexible role in Bognor Regis?

£11/hour + £40/sleep in, shift times flexible to cover holidays and sickness

To provide practical support for up to 5 looked after young people aged 16-17 in a 24-7 staffed semi-independent home in West Sussex. The role includes supporting them to gain life skills for independence when they leave our service at 18, giving emotional support through building positive relationships, encouraging education, training, or employment, and helping them to reach their full potential.

Being a support worker in our service will be a rewarding role where you will have an impact on young people's lives and make a real difference.

Duties:

- Providing daily support to the young people to enable them to become independent successful adults.

- Building positive, trusting relationships with young people, building on their self-esteem, and empowering them to take control of their lives.

- Engaging young people in productive key working sessions such as independent skills, finding jobs, careers, keeping themselves safe, mental health etc. This will include following our programme to Independence.

- Providing emotional support to young people in a non-judgmental, kind way.

- Completing admin work including daily observations.

- Work as part of a network round the young person, liaising with professionals, family members where appropriate and building effective working relationships/ including safeguarding the YP

- Deal with any challenging behaviour using de-escalation techniques

About us

Unity Support Services is a trauma-informed service for young people (aged 16-17) in West Sussex who are looked after by the local authority. Our aim is to support our young people to become independent, build resilience and lead fulfilling lives during their time with us and in the future. At Unity, we have the approach ‘what happened to you?' instead of ‘what is wrong with you’ when working with our vulnerable young people. We are passionate about meeting their needs, building effective relationships, and empowering them to achieve good outcomes.

Our house is situated in Bognor Regis and it houses 5 young people. We are currently looking for bank workers to join our friendly, warm, fun, and passionate team.

More permanent roles will be available in the near future as we expand.

Our Values

1. Strive to keep young people physically and emotionally safe

2. Place the utmost importance on listening and communicating effectively

3. Treat everyone fairly without discrimination or oppression

4. Always show kindness, empathy, and compassion

5. Operate with integrity and in an honest, trustworthy way

6. Work in collaboration with the young people’s networks

About you

- An empathic, kind, reliable, passionate, and organised individual with a great work ethic, a sense of humour and happy to go the extra mile to help a young person.

- Able to build effective and trusting relationships with young people.

- Confident in assessing safety, knowledge of safeguarding and competent to lone work

- An effective communicator (written and verbal) and listener

- NVQ 3: Children and young people or similar/ or 1-year experience working in a similar environment/ supporting/ caring environment.

Job Type: Zero hours contract

Salary: From £11.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• On-site parking

Ability to commute/relocate:

• BOGNOR REGIS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Experience:

• support work: 1 year (preferred)
• Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

• NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care or similar (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Young People Support Worker

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