Job Details:
Support Worker

Job Description

The Support Worker is a vital member of our frontline team, helping us to meet our organisational objective to ‘provide a local, compassionate infrastructure supporting people seeking sanctuary who become destitute.’ We currently have six shared houses (22 bed spaces) for people who have been refused asylum, and we hope to increase this number in the months ahead.

The successful applicant will be responsible for providing 1:1, holistic and trauma informed support for initially up to 10 women who have been refused asylum and who are living in Boaz Trust accommodation, usually for a period of approximately 12 months. This role includes supporting women to access basic essentials, specialist services, and opportunities to improve their health and wellbeing, including an involvement in the delivery of an ongoing wellbeing programme (Boaz Life) for people in Boaz accommodation. This role will also support women in Boaz to engage with legal advice so that they understand their current legal situation, and to hopefully move towards a resolution of the situation that led to their homelessness. As we look to increase our accommodation over the coming months, the number of people supported by this role will also increase.

As well as being responsible for a caseload of women living in Boaz housing, this role will also deliver practical housing support in all of our properties for people who have been refused asylum (men and women). This will include cleaning and preparing rooms for new people to move in to, facilitating monthly house meetings and supporting people to keep the houses in a good condition, and delivering monthly cleaning supplies to the houses.

We are looking for someone empathetic, with high emotional intelligence and who can work in a trauma-informed way. This post requires someone with great communication skills, and a good understanding of the asylum process in the UK, as well as an understanding of the range of backgrounds and experiences that people seeking asylum will have come from.

The successful candidate will have excellent time management skills and will be able to make effective use of their time as they provide face to face support and house visits, as well as completing case notes and other required documentation, whilst being flexible enough to accommodate changes in plans and priorities.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are important to us at Boaz and we are working to improve in these areas across the organisation. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly encourage applications from people who are from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic backgrounds, who are currently under-represented at Boaz. We also strongly encourage applications from people who have lived experience of migration and / or the asylum process. 

25 days leave per annum, plus statutory/bank holidays.
Employer contribution of 6% gross salary into pension scheme.