Senior Young Support Worker

Senior Young People Support Worker (Islington)

Lead meaningful change, empower young people to thrive, and shape a service where your leadership, compassion and creativity make a real and lasting impact every day.

Location: Islington

Salary: £31,203 per annum

Closing Date: 22 March, 2026

Employment Type: Permanent

Hours per week: 37.5

About the Role

Step into a key leadership role as a Senior Young People Support Worker
, where you ll drive high impact, psychologically informed support for young people at risk of homelessness. You ll lead a team of professionals, guide high quality assessments and support plans, and create safe, empowering environments that build confidence, resilience and independence. Every day, you ll use an asset based approach to help clients develop skills and move positively towards sustainable futures.

You ll take ownership of day to day service delivery managing risk, maintaining high safety standards, strengthening partnerships with local agencies and ensuring the accommodation remains welcoming and well maintained. With your inclusive leadership and creative problem solving, you ll connect clients to education, training, employment and volunteering opportunities, while also supporting staff development, supervising volunteers and contributing to the smooth running of the wider Islington pathway.

This role is ideal for someone who leads with integrity, collaborates confidently and is motivated by achieving meaningful outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Lead high quality, psychologically informed support for young people, delivering tailored one to one and group interventions that build resilience and independence.
• Oversee day to day service delivery, ensuring strong safeguarding practice, effective risk management and a safe, well maintained environment.
• Supervise and develop Progression Coaches, volunteers and placements, providing guidance, performance oversight and positive role modelling.
• Build effective partnerships with local agencies and internal teams to strengthen client support pathways and meet contractual outcomes.
• Support clients to access education, training, employment and volunteering opportunities aligned to their goals and strengths.
• Manage key operational tasks including casework quality, financial recording, health and safety checks and participation in the on call rota.

About You (What we are looking for from you Person Specification)

• Experiencing of supervising the work of others.
• An understanding and commitment to working in an assets-based way
• Experience of working with people who have experienced homelessness, poor mental health, substance use or have a history of living in care.
• Experience of using Risk Assessments and Support Planning.
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills
• Experience of operating safeguarding requirements and procedures
• Commitment to working in a manner which promotes diversity and equality, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and dignity and no one suffers from discrimination.
• Commitment to promoting an environment which has the highest regard for the Health and Safety of others.
• Personal and professional integrity
• High level understanding of professional boundaries and ability to maintain boundaries
• Effective collaborative working
• Ability to effectively reflect on own practices for ongoing learning and development
• Respect for the values and ethos of the charity and its founding partners.

What You ll Receive

• Tailored training and development
• Flexible working options where suitable
• 26 days annual leave, rising with service
• Family friendly leave policies
• Pension scheme with employer contributions up to 7%
• Employee Assistance Programme with 24/7 GP access
• Discounts across retail, travel, food, fitness and more
• Cash health plan for you and your family
• Death in service benefit
• Access to legal and practical support

Safer Recruitment

The charity is committed to fair and inclusive recruitment, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. If a role requires it under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, we will carry out the appropriate Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. We only look at information that is…