Can you respond to changing priorities quickly and with confidence?  Do you have the skills to support a team and to achieve positive outcomes for young people?    

We are recruiting into our Bristol Youth MAPS team for the role of Senior Assessment Mediation and Support Worker.  You’ll be working in an amazing multi-agency team in a fast-paced environment, line managing a small team of dedicated and expert homeless prevention workers and holding a caseload of young people.  MAPS is the front-door for Bristol homelessness prevention, supporting young people aged 16-21 years who experience housing insecurity and homelessness.  The work is varied, challenging, rewarding and important.  We work collaboratively using a trauma-responsive approach and will support you to support young people in need.  

Please find full details of how to apply via our website in the advert below. The deadline for application submissions is 23:59, Monday 20 May 2024.

We are striving to better represent the young people we support and therefore are particularly keen to increase applications from minoritized ethnic groups, Muslim and male candidates as they are currently under-represented in our organisation. We also encourage applications from people with relevant lived experience. 

If you need an adjustment to be made to any part of the recruitment process, please let us know as soon as possible. 

Who are we?
We are a leading youth homelessness charity based in the Southwest, working with over 1,500 young people. At 1625ip we are driven by Social Justice and Passion: we strive to do something that matters and take pride in seeing the results of our work in social outcomes and improving young people’s lives.

What you will be doing:

• Tapping into your collaboration skills, you will work a caseload of young people, their families and wider networks, alongside council colleagues and partners to prevent homelessness.
• Drawing on your skills in empathetic communication, you will help develop capacity and opportunities for collaborative work. 
• Line-managing a small team of three Assessment, Mediation and Support workers, providing supervision, guidance and support. 
• Working with the Operations Manager as well as the Triage and Brief Intervention and Assessment, Mediation and Support teams, alongside internal and external colleagues - to generate the best outcomes for young people and meet the needs of the team.

You will be based at Bristol Youth MAPS and your line manager will be our Operations Manager.

At 1625ip we are led by our Competency Development Framework. This connects our values to our behaviours in everything we do and gives us the tools to develop. The framework ensures our recruitment is better informed, applications and interviews are behaviourally based, and job profiles are developed on the ‘how’ of a job. 

No prior experience? No problem! We believe in your potential and are committed to providing training and support to help you thrive. If you have transferrable skills and you are interested in this role, but you are worried about the application process, please get in touch with us. We encourage you to have an informal chat with the recruiting manager to discuss how your personal or professional experience and skills could be transferred to this role. Details of how you can do that are further down in this advert.

Contract details 

• Hours per week: 37.5 (this represents 1 FTE) - we would consider less hours for the right candidate 
• Contract type: Permanent 
• Pay: £32,076 per annum 
• The location: Bristol Youth MAPS, Nelson Street, BS12JT (there is some scope for working remotely, but the role is primarily direct facing with young people and colleagues)

A few benefits at 1625ip
In return for your dedication, we offer:

• A generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days per annum plus all Bank Holidays
• Employee Health Cash Plan with Health Shield (up to level 2)
• A supportive and approachable team with an emphasis on colleague wellbeing 

“I feel grateful to work here every day! The work feels useful and worthwhile and I feel like I am able to make a difference for our young people” (From Colleague Wellbeing Survey 2023).

“I couldn’t be happier with the opportunities and support I have received in my career progression that has led me to my dream job!” See what other colleagues have said about their career development with us, here. 

Important dates

• Application deadline closes: 23:59, Monday 20 May 2024
• If you have not heard from us by the end of the day on Thursday 23 May 2024, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. 
• Interviews are on Tuesday 28 May 2024.