Night Support Worker

Working hours: 35 hours per week

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Additional Salary information: 10% night workers allowance

Within Thorndale Family Centre, there are 2 services – A Resettlement Service (Lifehouse) for homeless families, and a specialist Parenting Assessment Service.  The Night Support Worker will provide support across both these services.

The Resettlement Service (Lifehouse) provides support for families and individuals who are experiencing homelessness and have multiple and complex needs. Our role is to provide a safe psychologically informed environment to stay and support families and individuals through a Harm Reduction approach, based on trauma informed practice. Support will be given to address individual needs, enabling clients to achieve positive life changes and ultimately empower them to lead a more sustainable lifestyle

The Parenting Service supports children and families who face significant challenges in life, often as a result of adversity and trauma.  Within this residential service (placements for 3 families), we offer a broad range of supports and assessments delivered through a trauma-informed and relational-based approaches and interventions, we aim to strengthen families, support parents, and safeguard children.  With regular monitoring and intense support, we strive to keep families together where and when possible, or work in partnership with parents in efforts to have children rehabilitated back into their care.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the delivery of support to clients with complex needs, using Harm Reduction methods and Trauma Informed Practices.
• Play a key role in the provision of safe, supportive, enabling and nurturing environments along with targeted supports and interventions, to improve family relationships, develop parenting skills and knowledge, and enhance outcomes for children.
• Liaising with partner agencies to provide support and advocacy.
• Work with clients through person-centred support planning and enabling access to a range of meaningful activities.
• Work with clients as part of a Support Team to ensure the needs and actions within person centred plans are addressed in a professional manner.

The successful candidate(s) will be able to demonstrate:

• Motivation towards supporting.  Families and individuals to achieve focussed and positive life outcomes.
• The ability to form supportive and motivating relationships.
• Able to work within the ethos of The Salvation Army.
• Hold a NISCC Registration.

In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.

In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.

Appointment subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK, Enhanced Access NI, Driving Licence and Health Assessment 

For details of how to prove your right to work in the UK please click here and please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship. 

Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.

Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.