Homeless Support Worker

Join Us and Empower Young Lives!

At YMCA Brunel Group, we’re more than a charity—we’re a community. We believe in creating inclusive, energising spaces where people feel they truly belong, contribute, and thrive. As part of the international YMCA movement, we work across Mendip, Bath, Bristol, Wiltshire, and South Somerset, making a real difference in people’s lives.

What We Do:

• Homeless Support: Each year, we provide housing related support to those who the local authority have accepted a homeless duty for and placed in the YMCA under temporary accommodation.
• Health & Wellbeing: Our vibrant centre in Bath offers a fully equipped gym, fitness areas, and a wide variety of classes.
• Youth Clubs & Nurseries: With 12 youth clubs and 8 Ofsted-registered nurseries, we help children and young people grow, develop, and prepare for their future.

The Role: Homeless Support Worker
As an integral member of our support team in Bath, you will:

• Ensure residents receive high quality of support, working as part of a team to help people identify and meet their personal, social, health, learning and employment needs, as identified in their support needs assessment, ensuring safeguarding procedures are followed.
• To work closely with Bath & North East Somerset Council housing options team to ensure that all referrals can move on as quickly as possible.
• To maintain up to date accurate and confidential case records, documenting events as they happen, ensuring records are clear, complete and legible.
• Provide advise and assistance to residents to understand and comply with conditions of their occupancy agreement to enable them to sustain their accommodation.

This role requires a full UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle.

Location: ​Bath, Somerset

Hours:  37.5 hours/week (May include evening and weekend work)

Rate of Pay: £27.183.00 per year

*YMCA is no longer able to offer sponsorship

Please find the job description and personal specifications for this position as follows: Homeless Support Worker Job Description.

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YMCA Brunel Group is committed to follow safer recruitment guidelines and all candidates will have to demonstrate full employment history, give 2 good references and be DBS checked. In line with the requirements of the Asylum & Immigration Act 1996, all applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. Documented evidence of eligibility will be required from candidates as part of the recruitment process.

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