Support Worker - Outreach

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Interview Date: To be confirmed

WAYfinder South is a community-based outreach service supporting individuals and households aged 16+ in Glasgow South who are at risk of, experiencing, or have experienced homelessness. The service offers flexible, trauma-informed support tailored to each person’s needs, helping them achieve settled and sustainable housing. The service is designed to be accessible, responsive, and embedded within local communities, with a strong emphasis on prevention and seamless transitions between support levels.

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individual to take on this Support Worker role.

Key Responsibilities: This role is central to achieving positive outcomes for our clients by delivering Outreach Support in their own homes. You will be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of support, managing a caseload of clients with the overall goal of supporting them to access settled and sustainable housing.

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

Good working knowledge of developments in the homelessness sector including current legislation
Role model the core values of the Salvation Army to ensure positive relationships across the service and an environment which fosters wellbeing
Experience of lone working and outreach support
Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Be solution focussed, with the ability to make decisions under pressure.
Good organisational skills, attention to detail, effective time management, the ability to prioritise work, and be able to respond to tight deadlines, working both on an individual basis and as part of a team
The ability and willingness to work within, be empathic with, and promote the Christian ethos and values of The Salvation Army Mission

In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.

In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.

Appointment subject to satisfactory references, proof of right to work in the UK and Disclosure Scotland check/PVG. Once appointed in the role, registration with SSSC will be a requirement.

For details of how to prove your right to work in the UK please click here and please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship.

Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.

Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.

Benefits:
25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata for part-time); a contributory pension scheme; season ticket loan; an employee assistance programme

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