Homeless Service Senior Support Worker
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Homeless Service Senior Support Worker
Location Ashkirk Homeless Unit, Sunderland
Salary: £31,037 per annum.
Hours: Full Time, 37hrs per week, Monday to Saturday
Contract: Permanent
Closing Date: 5PM on Monday 11th August 2025.
If you are an enthusiastic and experienced housing professional passionate about delivering excellent housing related support services to families at risk of homelessness then our Homeless Service Senior Support Worker is the role for you.
Role Benefits:
* 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) for full time employees; pro-rata to part time employees.
* Health cash plan membership so you can save money by claiming cash back – over £1000 each year - towards essential healthcare such as dental, optical, physio and loads more. We’ll also cover the costs of including any dependent children in the scheme – up to the age of 21 or 24 if in full time education – that you may have.
* Access to savings on gym memberships plus cash back and discounts on purchases from major retailers including supermarkets, travel, cinema and more.
* Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3 x salary
About the Homeless Service Senior Support Worker role
This role will involve:
* Providing direction and leadership within your team to deliver excellent, consistent and responsive housing related support services to families at risk of homelessness in accordance with Bernicia policy and procedure.
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Ensure services are delivered in accordance with agreed standards, budgets, policies and procedures and targets.
Your Experience:
Successful candidates will need:
Essential:
* Full current driving licence and have access to a car for business use
* Good standard of general education
* Experience of leading, managing and supporting a team
* Demonstrable experience of safeguarding practice
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal
Desirable:
* Experience of support planning and key working
* Demonstrable experience of working in a housing related support service
* Advanced IT skills
About us
* We’re all about helping people in need of housing. We believe a good home makes lots of other things possible, so we provide great homes and services that do just that.
* We’ve built Bernicia to be a business that people want to be a part of. We’re one of the North East’s largest and most successful housing providers; building, renting, selling and managing homes as well as providing services to over 60,000 customers.
* Everything about Bernicia is people focused, that’s why we’ve held the Investors in People Gold Award since 2010.
* We operate within a set of simple, but effective values, which blend perfectly to create our unique ‘Bernicia Way’ culture. This ensures we are customer focused, through working together, respecting each other, being accountable for our actions and demonstrating integrity and leadership.
This post will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.
For more information regarding this role, please contact:
Dionne Thompson (phone number removed) or Mandy Payne (phone number removed)
We reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than advertised, should we receive a large volume of applications.
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The Group is fully committed to the promotion of equal opportunities and we particularly welcome applicants from groups who are currently under represented at Bernicia