Working hours: 35 hours per week Interview Date: To be confirmed Thorndale Family Centre provides support for families and individuals who are experiencing homelessness and have multiple and complex needs. Our role is to provide a safe psychologically informed environment to stay and support families and individuals through a Harm Reduction approach, based on trauma informed practice. The Support Worker at Thorndale Life house is critical to providing support within our service for our clients. Thorndale Life house has 35 self-contained, furnished flats, consisting of 31 flats and 4 single rooms for females. We provide 24 hour accommodation for families and single women who find themselves in need of short term accommodation. Support will be given to address individual needs, enabling clients to achieve positive life changes and ultimately empower them to lead a more sustainable lifestyle Key Responsibilities: Assist with the delivery of support to homeless clients with complex needs, using Harm Reduction methods and Trauma Informed Practices. Liaising with partner agencies to provide support and advocacy. Work with clients through person-centred support planning and enabling access to a range of meaningful activities. Work with clients as part of a Support Team to ensure the needs and actions within person centred plans are addressed in a professional manner. The successful candidate(s) will be able to demonstrate: Motivation towards supporting homeless Families and individuals to achieve focussed and positive life outcomes. The ability to form supportive and motivating relationships. Able to work within the ethos of The Salvation Army. Willingness to work towards registration qualification for NISCC Registration. In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments. In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting. Appointment subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and Access NI For details of how to prove your right to work in the UK please click here and please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship. Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration. We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications. Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.