Support and Advocacy Practitioner
- Job Reference: 00004376-1
- Date Posted: 13 November 2025
- Recruiter: Cardinal Hume Centre
- Location: Westminster, London
- Salary: £33,132
- Role: Frontline jobs
- Job type: Permanent
- Work hours: Full Time
Job Description
Job title: Support and Advocacy Practitioner Westminster, London Hours: Full time (average of 35 hours per week) Salary: £33,132 plus benefits
Application deadline : 9.00am, 8 December 2025
At the Cardinal Hume Centre, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live a full life, but we know that homelessness and poverty can wreck that potential. Too often homelessness at a young age is repeated and compounded in later years. Our renewed vision is to increase our focus on young people, children and their families. To value every individual, nurture their potential and help people thrive.
We are looking to recruit a Support and Advocacy Practitioner to work collaboratively as part of a committed team to deliver an outstanding service and a range of personalised support that puts residents first and empowers them to achieve their goals and thrive in adult life. This is an exciting role in our Supported Accommodation team that will lead on co-producing bespoke support and move-on plans, involving key stakeholders such as Social Workers, Personal Advisors and other support providers where appropriate. You will engage residents to meet agreed outcomes and develop life skills, assisting with day-to-day support and tenancy-related matters. You will also identify and promote opportunities for employment, education and training and support residents to remove barriers to accessing these opportunities.
Please refer to the job description for further information. If you have any questions or would like to have a confidential discussion regarding the role please contact our HR Advisor, Tara Glazik at recruitment@cardinalhumecentre.org.uk
In your cv and cover letter please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us. You must account for any gaps in your employment history. In your cover letter, please also answer the following 3 questions:
1. Tell us about your experience of working with young people who have experienced homelessness. What are the challenges and how have you provided support?
2. Tell us about your experience of safeguarding young people.
3. What attracted you to work for the Cardinal Hume Centre, and how would you ensure that our values are central to how you work with our residents?
If you are invited to interview, you will be asked to complete an application form before attending due to the safeguarding regulations within our supported accommodation.
This is a full-time role. You will work an average of 35 hours in a 40-hour week worked on a rolling rota (including weekends and Bank Holidays). Shifts are 8 hours (inclusive of a 1-hour unpaid lunch break) and include early, late and flexi/cover shifts.
The Centre is an equal opportunities employer. We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of homeless young people, insecurely housed families and their children. We particularly want to encourage people from under-represented groups in the not-for-profit sector to step forward and apply to work with us. We require our staff to recognise the valuable role that volunteers play in the work of the Centre and to welcome and support volunteers with whom they work.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We require successful job applicants, staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check. This role requires an enhanced DBS check with barred list. It is an offence to apply for the role if the applicant is barred from engaging in regulated activity. If you are successful and have previously spent time working abroad, you will be required to obtain evidence of no criminal conviction from those counties. This is a safeguarding requirement.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas.
Benefits
- 26 days’ leave rising to 28 days’ leave after two years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)
- Additional discretionary wellbeing and celebratory days
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Pension: stakeholder pension scheme and we will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.
- Life assurance cover (after probation passed)
- Season ticket loan
- Training and development opportunities
How to apply
Send your cv and cover letter to recruitment@cardinalhumecentre.org.uk
Closing date for applications: 9am Monday 8th December
Shortlisting date: w/c 8th December 2025
Interviews: w/c 15th December 2025
If you’ve not heard from us three weeks after the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.