Job Introduction

Role:  Out of Hours Shift Worker – Ref YHG/TP/66/310

Salary:  £9 per hour, plus excellent benefits

Location:  Verve Place, Warrington

Duration:  Permanent

Hours:  37.5 per week, working 7.45pm – 8.15am shifts Monday to Sunday and/or Saturday & Sunday 7.45am – 8.15pm on a 3 week rota

What do we do?  Young Peoples Services provides accommodation, support and learning opportunities to young people aged 16-25.  As we operate 24 hours a day, the Out of Hours Shift Worker ensures the building and residents are safe and secure outside normal office hours.  In addition to supporting the residents, you will be responsible for taking safe receipt of payments received for rent, overnight guests and any recharges whilst on shift.

The role is based at Verve Place, Warrington, working on a 3 week rota basis, so you’ll know when you will be working.  The pre-arranged shifts you could be working include Night Shifts (7.45pm-8.15am) during the week, or if it’s the weekend, it could be the Night Shift (7.45pm-8.15am) or the Day Shift (7.45am-8.15pm).

We are looking for you to be able to relate to young people, work unsupervised, using your own initiative.  As in any lone worker role, the ability to deal with emergency situations is essential, as is a positive attitude and excellent communication skills.  Please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities of this interesting role.

In addition to the above you will embrace the culture of continuous improvement to support Value for Money throughout the organisation and have a passion for doing things right first time.

Your Housing Group is a new generation of housing provider, working efficiently and effectively to build as many quality houses as possible, thereby playing its part in solving the national housing crisis. With over 28,300 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, the business has a large portfolio of retirement living developments and an innovative private rental offer in Hive.

This role is eligible for a DBS check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (i.e. it involves certain activities in relation to children and/or adults) and is defined as regulated activity under Part 1 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006.  Therefore a DBS ENHANCED including Child Barred List check for a regulated activity is an essential requirement.

Prior to application, please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities.  Please ensure you complete and submit your application prior to the closing date below.

Applicants are advised that, in the event of receiving a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early. As a consequence you are urged to submit your application as soon as possible.

Closing date: Friday  25 May 2018        

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified. 

Your Housing Group