• Location: 61 Booth Street W, Manchester, M15 6PP


• Hours of Work: 35 per week, Monday to Friday (Rota Cover 8:00am to 8:00pm)


• Closing date: 16th August 2024


• Interviews: TBC

Are you looking for a rewarding role working with Young People from a range of backgrounds? Are you passionate about providing young people with better life chances and supporting them with the skills, knowledge and confidence to lead an independent life?

MSV Housing has two Young Person’s Schemes based in Hulme, Manchester providing support and accommodation for young people aged 16 - 25. We’re looking for a Young Person Support Worker to join our team, ensuring our Young People have the support they need to thrive throughout their independent living journey.

You’ll manage a caseload of young people and work to engage them in the Foyer offer, tailoring support plans and goals to enable them to achieve positive outcomes during their stay with us. You’ll have a proven track record in this highly rewarding field with the skills and experience to deal with multiple and complex needs of our young people. You’ll be able to manage difficult situations calmly and recognise necessary intervention measures when needed.

You’ll show enthusiasm and a strong commitment to meeting the individual needs of each young person accessing our service and have previous experience with a similar client group. You’ll have the ability to engage, motivate and inspire our young people to live independent lives, empowering them to maintain their tenancy agreement and in time move on to their own accommodation outside of the Foyer environment.

Experience of one to one support planning, risk assessment, delivering training and an understanding of the welfare benefits system is also required.  You must be client focused, be able to communicate at all levels, be a self-starter and demonstrate commitment and enthusiasm to helping our young people achieve their goals.

You’ll become part of an established and hardworking team who are passionate about our Foyer services and our young people. You’ll be expected to cover the Foyer Rota between the hours of 8am and 8pm working 7 hours per day Monday – Friday. You will also provide cover for other Young Persons schemes as required.

We're committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. As this job is based in a supported housing project for young people, an enhanced criminal records background check (free of charge to you) is required. A criminal conviction does not necessarily stop you from working with us. All decisions regarding convictions will be made on a case-by-case basis. Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding young people can be found in our Safeguarding policy attached alongside this vacancy’s candidate pack.

We offer a range of great benefits including:

• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday a buy scheme.


• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions


• Company funded access to a health cash plan, where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more.


• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay


• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives


• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme.


• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career


• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause.

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

More information about the role can be found in the information pack attached to this advert. To apply please complete an application form via our website: https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/

If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Helen Walker on 07936947990.

Interviews are scheduled to take place on a date to be agreed, however we may close and the advert and interview candidates earlier.

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role.

We own and manage almost 9,000 homes across Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire and pride ourselves on being a housing association that retains our original values and missions and continues to deliver a range of housing solutions to the most vulnerable in society. For MSV our main priority has, and always will be, to deliver and build on the services we provide as a social values organisation. We embrace equality and inclusion and are genuinely focussed on people. We want better life chances for our people, we work with customers to strengthen our business and we want to see fewer homeless people and people in poverty.