Job Description
Bright Futures, Inspired By You.\n\nThere’s nothing more rewarding than helping someone believe in themselves and have the confidence to celebrate their own uniqueness and achieve success that is personal to them.\n\nAt Horizon, we live up to our values, and we value our people.We are proud to be one of the most innovative providers of young people’s residential care and education in the UK.\n\nHorizon Care and Education have an opportunity for a Youth Support Workerto join our team.\n\nAs a Youth Support Worker you will be helping young people transition to independent living, duties include:\n\nProvide emotional and practical support, including out-of-hours on-call.\nDevelop and review support plans, ensuring safeguarding and risk management.\nHelp young people access education, training, and employment.\nManage properties and liaise with other professionals.\nSupport our young people to develop independent living skills to prepare them to live fully independently.If you're passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people and enabling them to shape their own future, then we want you to be part of our team.\n\nWhat we’re looking for from you:\n\nExperience working with vulnerable young people, ideally care leavers.\nIdeally you would have at least 3 years experience of working in, and managing shared supported housing properties.\nStrong safeguarding knowledge and assessment skills.\nAbility to be resilient and empathetic when working with our young people.\nExcellent communication and problem-solving abilities.\nFlexibility to be able to work shifts that include evenings and weekends.\nA driving license and access to a vehicle is desirable.Why work for us?\n\nAccess to Tastecard, Bluelight card and MyGym discounts!\nReal Living Wage employer\nCompetitive pay rates\nChristmas bonus\nGenerous Refer a Friend Scheme \nFinancial wellbeing service\nLife Assurance\nOngoing training and professional development plus High quality CPD opportunities\nComprehensive induction programme including face-to-face training, online modules, shadowing, and local induction period.\nFace-to-face therapeutic training and support for all colleagues via our SHINE programme.\nEmployee assistance programme – free, confidential support.\nLooking after your wellbeing - supporting you need to feel good about what you do. We’re in this together.\nSupportive management and senior leaders.\n\nINDSUPBAU