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SalaryJob Title:Prevention Worker
Team: Our Way Leeds (OWL)
Responsible to: Prevention Team Leader
Responsible for: N/A
Hours: 30 hours per week (Part time)
Salary: Scale 12 - £25,046 (pro rata)
Benefits: Employee health plan, company pension scheme, cycle to work scheme, tech scheme, flexible working
Leave: 29 days’ annual leave per annum, plus Bank Holidays (pro rata for part time hours)
GIPSIL is committed to all aspects of safeguarding. We believe that all children and adults, who are at risk of harm, have the right to be protected from abuse. GIPSIL aims to ensure that all staff and voluntary workers who seek work at GIPSIL and who have access to children and adults are safe to do so.
GIPSIL is a community based organisation providing housing, counselling, advice and support to young and vulnerable people at risk in Leeds.
As an organisation we are committed to the following principles in recruitment to ensure we can effectively achieve our aim of providing equal opportunities and safer recruitment;
- We recruit for potential, not perfection
- We are a values based recruiter
- We value lived experience as a demonstration of capability for a role
- We only utilise truly “essential” criteria in recruitment
- We are committed to safer recruitment practice
When we refer to Values we are talking about our organisational Values, found here.
We are a disability confident employer.
This role is part of Young People’s Housing Related Support Service Our Way Leeds (OWL), delivered by a consortia of service providers. The consortia have GIPSIL as the lead provider alongside Foundation & Turning Lives Around. OWL provides a wide range of interventions to prevent homelessness, four types of supported housing and pre and post-tenancy support schemes for young people & young people leaving care including unaccompanied asylum seeker children. Young people can be single, young families or couples.
The purpose of the role is to improve the lives of individuals and families living in Leeds who require support in relation to sustaining their tenancy or supporting with a planned move into suitable accommodation.
Prevention workers will also work alongside the mediation worker in cases where the young person and parent/carer would like support around their relationship to enable the young person to stay or return home.
To apply for this role please visit Current Vacancies – GIPSIL to download an application pack. Completed applications should be emailed to hr@gipsil.org.uk
To arrange an informal conversation about this role please contact Lina Naik (Team Leader) Lina.Naik@ourwayleeds.org.uk or Katy Holmes (Service Manager) Katy.Holmes@ourwayleeds.org.uk
Please note that GIPSIL will not accept CV’s. No agencies.
- Deadline for applications: Friday 9th February at 12 noon
- Shortlisting Date: Tuesday 13th February
- Interview Date: Tuesday 20th February
You will be informed within 5 working days of the Shortlisting Date if you have been successful or not.
The above post is not a Leeds City Council vacancy and has been advertised on behalf of the relevant organisation. To apply please follow their application instructions.
This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU Settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.
