Care and Support Team Manager Fixed Term Contract - 37.5 hours per week Salary £38,037 Location: Lambeth Lambeth Young persons service Are you a driven and compassionate to work with young people 18 – 25, if so MTVH in opening our new service within Lambeth. We are looking for individuals with a proven record of engaging positively with vulnerable young people or other vulnerable groups with an understanding of relevant policies and legislation. Young People’s Service provides housing related support and interventions to 9 people with a range of issues living in shared accommodation. These young people may be leaving local authority care, be homeless, threatened with homelessness or living in accommodation that is not meeting their identified needs. The service provides ‘step up’ or ‘step down’ from other supported accommodation, as appropriate. The focus of the service is to provide safe, accommodation-based housing support services for young people with the aim of promoting maximum independence for each individual. What you`ll need to succeed To be successful in the role previous experience of supporting young people between 18-25 is essential. You will demonstrate you understand what good support looks like which is appropriate to the age, gender, disability, race, religion and sexuality of the customer to improve their quality of life and independence. It is essential that you have good IT verbal communication and written skills to support the customers with relevant paperwork. Essential is that you have a passion for providing excellent support to customers and strive for continually improvement. You will embrace our core values and support in embedding these in everything the team do. What you need to do now If you are interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it’s the ideal job for you, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, which will include a check of the Enhanced Adult & Child Barred list once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years. Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship. What’s in it for you? Our benefits include:- 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9% Life assurance cover 3 x your salary Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring programme and apprenticeships We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation About us Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing. Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together! We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.