Job Description

Working at YMCA Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire is more than just a job, it's a chance to make a difference, an opportunity to be part of making a positive impact on local young people in our community.

We provide a welcoming and safe place for young people to live as well as a range of support services to help them into employment and move towards an independent future.

We are recruiting to a key role managing our Out of Hours service, to ensure that residents on our campus have access to quality support during evenings and nights. It is crucial that our support is still available and of a high standard during these times when typically, traditional services are closed and when our residents often feel at their lowest.

The Supported Housing Manager Out of Hours will drive an open, transparent, friendly and caring culture that is focused on meeting the needs of residents, ensuring that the YMCA MK is a positive place for our young people. This role will support the team to effectively manage challenging behaviour and find ways to support residents who may faces crisis, both physically and mentally, out of hours.

This role will act as Designated Safeguarding Lead for Out of Hours and will act as strategic lead for the team.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience of managing a team supporting vulnerable adults in a complex needs and social housing environment. They will also have a background and understanding of delivering care which is person-centred, asset-based, and trauma informed. Ideally, they will experience of acting as Designated Safeguarding Lead in a social housing environment.

This role is full time working 37.5 hours on a rota across the week, including some evenings and weekends. We are flexible about the working pattern but ideally this will include core hours covering afternoons/evenings on a Friday and Saturday as these are often busy periods for our teams. The role is to start as soon as possible.

Our team is key to us in achieving our goals and we value and invest in all our employees to ensure that collectively, we provide the best support possible to our young people to help them reach their potential. Along with a competitive salary we offer many employee benefits including:

Salary 35K - 45K depending on qualifications, skills and experience 25 days annual leave increasing by a day a year up to 30 days An on-site cafe with employee discount Regular training and development opportunities 5% employer contribution into a pension scheme Life Insurance benefit x 4 salary
If this sounds like the role for you, please click on the link to our website to see a full job description and apply. Please note, we do not accept CVs so if you would like to apply you will need to click on the link and apply via our website:

https://mkymca.com/vacancies/

Enhanced DBS required. YMCA MK is an equal opportunities employer.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: 35,000.00-45,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Employee discount Health & wellbeing programme Life insurance On-site parking
Schedule:

Day shift Night shift Weekend availability
Experience:

managing a team supporting vulnerable adults: 2 years (required) delivering person-centred trauma informed care: 2 years (required) working in social housing: 2 years (required) acting as Designated Safeguarding Lead : 2 years (required)
Work authorisation:

United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person