* Fixed-term: Maternity Cover for 12 months from April 2025. 37.5 hours per week.
Role
An opportunity has arisen for a full-time project worker to join the team at our Kharis Court residential service for young people experiencing homelessness in West Lothian on a fixed-term basis from April 2025 to provide maternity cover for a period of 12 months.
The project provides accommodation to young men and women 16-25 years of age in a four-bed communal living setting and also within single-supported flats. The project is located in Bathgate, West Lothian.
You will be involved in the day-to-day running of the unit, ensuring that a 24-hour warden service is in place through the working of shifts (including sleepovers & weekends). You will help to provide emotional and practical support to individuals, enabling them to learn independent living skills through support planning, assessments, and key working. A team player with good communication skills, you will have experience and knowledge of our service user group and their surrounding issues.
Competence in the use of Microsoft Office tools is essential. An SVQ 3 in Social Care, Promoting Independence or equivalent as listed by SSSC as appropriate for a ‘Housing Support Worker’ is desirable coupled with the experience of working with vulnerable and homeless people.
As well as the salary noted above, Bethany Christian Trust offers additional benefits such as sleepover allowance, flexible working, pension contributions, annual leave entitlement, and a death-in-service benefit.
As Bethany is a Christian organisation, this post carries an Occupational Requirement in line with the Equality Act 2010. Please note that one reference must be from your church minister or leader to endorse your live and active Christian faith and commitment.
Successful applicants for this post will require membership in the PVG scheme and registration with SSSC.
Interviews will be held the week commencing 31 March 2025.
Key Responsibilities
* Support the development of life skills and homemaking in preparation for a tenancy.
* Help to reduce harm caused by homelessness and trauma.
* Help people in our community to manage and recover their mental health.
* Support people who use drugs and alcohol to do so as safely as possible.
* Support people who choose to reduce or stop their drug and alcohol use to do so safely.
* Help people in our community to build a positive network of connections that will help them to gain and sustain their own housing.
* Provide emotional and practical support to our community.
* Any other duties directed by your service lead.
Person Specification
Training and Qualifications:
* SVQ 3 social care or willing to work towards.
* SSSC Registered or willing to become so.
* Assist/MHFA/SafeTalk trained.
* Naloxone trained.
Experience:
* Experience of providing support to people with a range of challenges including homelessness, mental ill health, and addictions.
* Experience of working in a fast-paced environment which requires quick decision-making.
* Lived experience of homelessness.
* Experience of working with a range of agencies as a team.
* Networking and connecting skills.
Knowledge and Skills:
* Experience of working with people with a variety of individual and cultural beliefs.
* Ability to use empathy and relational skills to build positive relationships with our community and colleagues.
* Understanding of and ability to work within ethical and relational boundaries.
* Knowledge and understanding of homelessness, addictions, and mental health.
* Understanding of services that support homelessness, addictions, and mental health.
* Evidence of good communication skills, written, verbal, and digital.
Personal Attributes:
* Able to lead by example.
* A team player.
* A desire to learn and to develop innovative practice.
* Honest, ethical, and keen to overcome obstacles.
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