Peer Support Worker - Supported Employment: Homeless...

Peer Support Worker - Supported Employment: Homelessness

Sheffield, S1 4EB

22.2 hours – Fixed Term until 30 June 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Peer Support Worker to work within our Work & Wellbeing team as part of a national trial aimed at testing individual placement support for employment for individuals belonging to a Homeless cohort.

We are a forward thinking, values driven housing association, and this role is based in the community – predominantly across Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley.

For our perfect candidate we are offering a flexible role, working in a caring and friendly team, with a great package of benefits.

Our wider benefits:

• Salary – £22,389 (Pro Rata)
• Working hours – 22.2 per week (0.6 FTE)
• Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days, pro rata.
• Pension contribution
• Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share.
• Excellent benefits including:
  • SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts. Plus, advice and resources on health eating, financial wellbeing, exercise and mastering your mental health
  • Westfield Health (employer paid)
  • Counselling
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
• Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you.

More about the role:

The role will be responsible for providing mentoring and guidance based on your own lived experiences around homelessness and unstable housing to individuals of a similar cohort as well as providing support and advice to employment specialists who are engaging these individuals to support them to secure employment and develop their confidence, wellbeing and health.

The role reports to the work and wellbeing Team Leader responsible for the project.

Who you are:

Our peer support service role is part of a wider employment team supporting people experiencing homelessness who want to work. Our Peer Support Worker will help the people receiving our support to be able to connect easily with us, to feel listened to, to grow their skills, and to thrive in work they want to do.

Our peer support worker role will work alongside employment specialists supporting people to overcome their barriers on their recovery journey back to work in a person-centred, non-judgemental and strengths-based way.

The right individual for the role should:

• Have and show empathy based on their own experiences
• Have digital skills (i.e. Microsoft excel, able to transact online)
• Have great organisational and observational skills
• Be Passionate about mentoring and supporting people
• Be a good problem solver and motivator

Who we are:

At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.

Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.

Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.

At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.

To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
If the role is an excluded job from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act, include the following statement: For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 this is an excluded job.

Closing Date: Thursday 1st May 2025 at Midnight
Interview Date: Thursday 8th May 2025