About Us
akt is the UK’s national LGBTQ Youth Homelessness charity. We provide safe homes, mentoring, and support to ensure that no young person needs to choose between a safe home and being who they are. 24% of young people facing homelessness in the UK identify as LGBT (National Scoping of LGBT Youth Homelessness, akt, 2015) and 78% of LGBTQ+ young people cited an absence of family support (The LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Report, akt, 2021). The charity was founded in 1989 and operates service centres in London, Manchester, Newcastle, and Bristol and works online through a Digital Service to offer support to young people outside of our four office regions. akt works with over 800 vulnerable young people a year providing both face-to-face and online assistance.
The Team
This role sits within akt’s new Supported Housing Scheme in Lambeth, which is planned to open in April to May 2025. This is a three-year funded joint project with Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association and Lambeth Council. The role is part of the Services team and is supervised by the Supported Housing Manager. Other members of the team include two part-time Housing Support Workers.
Job Summary
Please note this is a part-time vacancy working 17.5 hours per week between 10am and 8pm, Monday to Friday on a rota basis and working one Saturday and one Sunday per month. The pro rata salary for this vacancy is £15,822 per year.
Coordinating LGBTQ+ affirming activities within the accommodation for the residents. Alongside the Supported Housing Manager, this role will also provide training to professionals and support to LGBTQ+ people across the rest of the housing pathway and with frontline council teams, to ensure professionals are working in an LGBTQ+ informed and inclusive way.
The new LGBTQ+ housing scheme commissioned as part of SHAP funding as part of Lambeth Young People's Housing Pathway. The accommodation is an LGBTQ+ supported housing service with six units for young people aged 18-21 years with Monday to Sunday staffing between 9am and 8pm. The service will be delivered as a partnership between akt and Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing Association.
Application deadline: midnight (11.59pm) on 13th February 2025.
Interviews: 28th February 2025.
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