Enablement & Transition Officer - Homelessness, full time - Trowbridge - Reference Number 95

Join Us in Making a Difference – Enablement & Transition Officer, Homelessness

Trowbridge | 37.5 hours per week Full-Time | £26,968.50 - £27,787.50 PA

About Us

Our Vision in Alabaré is a Society where everyone has the opportunity to live a fulfilling life. With a dedicated team, strong community partnerships, and a bold vision, we are transforming lives every day.

Alabaré are a charity supporting vulnerable, homeless and marginalised people. We help them transform their lives, providing accommodation and helping them gain the skills, confidence and opportunities to live a fulfilled life.

We value our staff and volunteers, and especially appreciate the diverse perspectives and backgrounds people bring. We invest in our people and have excellent opportunities for learning and training. We also have excellent opportunities for development and growth.

Make a difference to someone’s life everyday with a fulfilling role at Alabaré.

The Role

The Enablement Transition Officer is a key frontline role supporting young people and adults to build stability, confidence and independence. The role provides intensive housing-related, practical and transition-focused support to people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, leaving care, living in supported or hostel-based accommodation, or preparing for independent living. The postholder helps clients maintain their licence agreement, reduce risk, develop everyday living skills and move towards suitable accommodation or longer-term independence.

This is a rewarding role for someone who can offer practical, strengths-based, psychologically informed and trauma-informed support. Clients may have experienced poverty, family breakdown, care experience, poor health, substance misuse, exploitation, domestic abuse, debt, unemployment, offending, isolation, disrupted education, limited support networks, long-term homelessness or other complex challenges. The focus is on building trust, recognising strengths and helping each person make realistic progress.

The role sits within services that may operate 24/7, requiring flexibility including evenings, weekends, Bank Holidays, sleep-ins and other rota requirements. It is a skilled frontline specialist role, offering the opportunity to make a direct difference without carrying management or service leadership responsibility.

Car Driver preferred but not essential.

Working 37.5 hours per week between 09:00 - 17:00 on a 7 day rota with flexibility to cover outside these times if required to meet the needs of the service including bank holidays.

Skills needed:

• Educated to A-Level standard, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge, skills and experience relevant to the role.
• Relevant training or qualification in supported housing, young people’s support, homelessness, safeguarding, trauma-informed practice, mental health, substance misuse, criminal justice, social care or a related area.
• Experience of delivering housing-related support, key working, assessments, support planning and risk management with young people, adults experiencing homelessness or people with complex needs.
• Experience of working in supported accommodation, hostel-based services, homelessness, young people’s services or other high-support settings that help people build stability and independence.
• Experience of supporting people affected by trauma, mental ill health, substance misuse, exploitation, offending, care experience, family breakdown, domestic abuse, poverty, debt, isolation or long-term homelessness.
• Experience of supporting people whose complex needs require a high level of risk management, safeguarding awareness, professional judgement and coordinated multi-agency working.
• Awareness of health and safety requirements within supported accommodation, including property checks, repairs reporting, shared living environments and safe, welcoming services.
• Experience of working unsupervised and on your own initiative.
• Ability to form and maintain professional working relationships with a range of individuals. Experience of working as part of a team.
• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communications skills.
• Experience of forming and maintaining appropriate professional boundaries.
• Basic IT Skills. Knowledge of the welfare benefits system.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a purpose-driven organisation making real change
• Work with a passionate, supportive team
• Enjoy flexible working and a culture that values well-being through Employee Assistance Programme – Mindful Employer

Closing date for applications Sunday 20th September 2026

Interviews dates flexible.

Please quote Reference number 95

Please note we do not offer sponsorship

Alabaré are committed to ensuring the wellbeing and safety of all our service users, this includes developing, implementing and maintaining effective recruitment policies and procedures to promote the safeguarding of children, young people and vulnerable adults. Before commencing employment, the HR Department undertakes pre-employment checks on all applicants who have been offered a job with the Charity. These checks include an Enhanced DBS, which will be renewed every 3 years, the right to live and work in the UK, as well as two satisfactory references.

All staff will be required to complete training on Safeguarding Adults and Young People within their first week of employment.

Remember, reporting bad practice is good practice

Please visit our website for more information on our benefits and to download an application form. www.alabare.co.uk/about/jobs

Disclaimer

• Please note you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret that we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £26,968.50-£27,787.50 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Application question(s):

• Are you currently living in the United Kingdom with the ability to commute.

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person