Project Officer

Your Housing Group has a fabulous opportunity for a Project Officer who is passionate about supporting vulnerable young people. Ravenhead Foyer is a supported housing project for 32 young people aged 16-25 and offers them the opportunity to make progress in their lives, to build resilience and meet their aspirations. As a Project Officer, you will play a key role in supporting residents to help them achieve their goals, develop independent living and life skills and build excellent relationships with residents, colleagues and professionals from external agencies. What will my working week look like? The Project Officers Work 7 hour shifts Monday to Friday on a rota basis between 8am and 8pm. The shifts for the Project Officer role are below: Week A: 8am to 4pm; Week B: 11am to 7pm; Week C: 12pm to 8pm What will I be responsible for doing? As a Project Officer you will play a key role in supporting residents to help them achieve their goals and move on successfully to independent tenancies. You will do this by building strong working relationships and a holistic support packages. One of the great things about this role is the positive impact you will make to our customers lives and the genuine improvements you will make to their situations. You will be part of a busy office environment and will have administrative duties. There are also some general housekeeping tasks.

• be able to relate well to young and vulnerable people from a variety of backgrounds
• demonstrate empathy to young people, providing them with a safe, supportive and welcoming environment
• be flexible and enthusiastic
  
  Your Housing Group is a registered social landlord helping people at every stage of life to live in quality homes they can afford.
As one of the North's sector-leading landlords, we are proud to play our role in tackling the UK's housing crisis by continually reinvesting in our 29,000 properties and tailoring our services to meet the diverse needs of our customers. We also build over 1,000 new homes each year. We're an employer of choice, over 88% of colleagues here recommend us as a 'great place to work'.

In return we offer £24479.00 for a 35-hour week, and 25 days (pro-rata) annual leave (holidays also increase with time served) plus Bank Holidays, but our employee offering provides much more than just a competitive salary and holiday allowance. On top of this, we'll provide you with a great benefits package, including a contributory pension where we match whatever you choose to contribute (up to 8%), an advanced level Healthcare cash plan through Medicash, that doesn't just provide dental and optician cashback but also health and wellbeing benefits (such as 24/7 GP Access, money back from prescriptions and alternative therapy treatments), an option to buy up to one weeks further holiday, an annual volunteering day, and an amazing discount scheme that gives you access to half price cinema tickets, subsidised gym memberships and a huge range of discounts with some of the biggest high street and online names. Although you will be based at Ravenhead you will also have access to Youggle House - our wellbeing, social, collaboration and meeting space in Birchwood, Warrington - you may be asked to travel to Youggle House to meet up with your wider team for meetings and training when required.