Senior Housing Floating Support Worker (South Gloucestershire)
We are excited to be recruiting a Senior Support worker to the Housing Floating Support team in South Gloucestershire. Home isn’t just a place, it’s stability, hope, and a second chance. Lead the team that makes it happen for young people.
Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Monday 01 December 2025.
We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritised ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience.
If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible.
Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.
What you will be doing:
* Provide support, information, and guidance to young people at risk of homelessness, their families and professionals who work with them.
* Lead a small dedicated and experienced team of support workers, providing support and case management supervision.
* Support the Service Manager to provide housing management within a small, supported housing scheme.
You will be in the South Gloucestershire team and your line manager will be our South Gloucestershire Service Manager – Karen Clark.
At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job.
No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.
Contract details
* Contract type: Permanent
* Location: your base will be at our South Glos office in Patchway. However, this role will require extensive travel across the county.
A few benefits at 1625ip
* A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays.
* Employee Health Cash Plan with HSF.
* A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing.
* “1625 Independent People is an amazing organisation, and I feel very lucky to work here”, Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2024.
* “I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, on the vacancy page of our website.
* 1625ip is a Disability Confident Employer.
* If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Friday 05 December 2025, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
* Interviews are on Wednesday 10 December 2025.
Application information
Ready to see yourself in this rewarding role? We can’t wait to hear from you.
* You will be asked to answer 5 questions at the top of the Word application form. These are required to ensure your application can be shortlisted.
* Please note the online e-application form cannot be saved so we recommend you prepare your Word application form before you start filling in the e-form.
* Please get in touch with us if a hard copy of the application form would be preferred. We will organise a time for you to collect it from and return it to Kingsley Hall (our main office in Old Market). An online application will then be created for you.
* If you are struggling to access any of the files linked above, please email jobs@1625ip.co.uk
* For support with your application, skills, training and your career Skills Connect ’s dedicated advisors who can assist you
Equitable opportunities for everyone
We believe those with a criminal record should have an equal chance to become employees or volunteers and encourage applications.
As an organisation who safeguard and promote the safety and welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, any job offer will depend on a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) check. Successful candidates will need to provide our organisation with sufficient documentation to prove ID. We comply fully with the DBS code of practice and undertake to treat all applications for positions fairly. For successful candidates with a criminal record, a risk assessment process will take place with the recruiting manager.
We also pride ourselves on being an equitable opportunities employer for everyone regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, religion and beliefs, sex and sexual orientation. We have committed to being a Disability Confident Employer, and have made the Menopause Workplace, Mental Health at Work, and Bristol Equality Charter pledges.
Please see our Policies section on the website, for further information.
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