Contract: Permanent, Full-time (37.5 hours on rota including evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays)
Salary: £28,980 per annum
Closing Date: 03 February 2025
Interviews will be held w/c 10th February 2025.
About us
Centrepoint, the UK’s leading youth homelessness charity, is looking for a Young Parents’ Support and Progression Officer to join our Greenwich service based in Abbey Wood and Charlton.
This is a very interesting place to work because help young parents and their children in the Greenwich area achieve positive outcomes, ensuring they live happy, healthy, and fulfilling lives both during and after their time with Centrepoint.
Together with our partners, we support thousands of homeless young people each year.
The role involves managing 30 units of accommodation for young parents and young people across three services in Greenwich, providing both high and low-level support 24/7. The post holder will be responsible for supporting young parents to achieve independence, find stable employment, and access education and training opportunities.
We help vulnerable young people by giving them the practical and emotional support they need to find a job and live independently. Centrepoint provides homeless young people with accommodation; health support and life skills in order to get them back into education, training and employment. We want to end youth homelessness by 2037.
About you
- Effective communicator with natural ability to facilitate open and honest conversations.
- Able decision maker with a can do attitude.
- Respectful and empathetic, always considering the impact on our young people.
- Flexible, always adapting to changing needs.
- Engaging, committed to self-development by engaging with training and continuous learning.
- Proactive, always looking for creative ways of working.
What you’ll be doing
- Working within the Young parent service based in Greenwich, providing support to vulnerable young Parents and single young people.
- Working in a team with a strong understanding of the developmental needs of children, the challenges of parenting.
- Promote a vibrant culture with an uncompromising commitment to excellence, reflecting and responding to health and housing needs and fully integrating support packages that reflect the needs of those accessing the service.
- Working as a part of a multi-disciplinary team that works with young parents / Young people to identify and meet their personal, social, health, learning and work needs.
- Follow the lead from line management to ensure that all performance and contractual targets are met and exceeded.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details.
Why join Centrepoint?
In return for your efforts, you’ll receive a competitive salary, excellent training and development, and a host of staff benefits including:
- 25 days of annual leave per year, rising by one day per year to a maximum of 27 days
- Healthcare cash plan (Cover the costs of a wide range of medical treatment including Dental, Optical, Complementary and Alternative therapies).
- Private Medical insurance
- Income protection
- Employer pension contributions of 5%
- Access to Cycle 2 Work loan scheme
- An interest-free travel loan
At Centrepoint we challenge the discrimination within society that contributes to youth homelessness, and we are just as committed to fairness and equality within Centrepoint itself. We are passionate about ensuring all of our colleagues are made to feel included in the work we do and that we value the rich diversity within the organization.
We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications regardless of sex, gender, race, age, belief in any religion and none, gender identity, ethnic origin, class, sexuality, nationality, appearance, unrelated criminal activities, disability, responsibility for dependents, part time or shift workers, being HIV positive or living with AIDS, lived experience of homelessness or using young people’s services and any other matter which causes a person to be treated with injustice.
Centrepoint’s policy is to recruit, employ and promote people on the basis of their suitability for the work to be performed, and to this end, our aim is to ensure that all applicants, employees and volunteers receive equal treatment.
Don’t miss out on this fantastic opportunity to join our team as a Young Parents’ Support and Progression Officer click ‘Apply’ now!
