Job details
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Pay
- £14.13 – £14.36 an hour
Job type
- Permanent
Shift and schedule
- Weekend availability
Location
Brighton and Hove
Full job description
Supported Housing Assistant Weekends
Posted on 19 June 2025 Apply
- Directorate BHCC: Homes and Adult Social Care
- Salary £27,269 – £27,711 plus evening and weekend enhancements
- Contract Permanent
- Closing Date Apply by 13 July 2025
Location
New Steine Mews Hostel
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Job Summary
- Job referenceorbis/TP/25345/45201
- Positions available2
- Working hoursWeekends
- Closing date13 July 2025
- Job categoryCare – Adults
- OrganisationBrighton & Hove City Council
Job introduction
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the support offered to vulnerable homeless people in the City.
You will take responsibility for the safety and security of the hostels and their residents, ensuring that safety procedures and statutory obligations are adhered to. You will be involved in supporting single homeless people and liaising with keyworkers. An awareness of the issues surrounding single homelessness and substance misuse would be an advantage.
Salary: £14.13 – £14.36 per hour, (plus enhancements of time and half for hours worked weekends, time and third for hours worked between 8pm and 6am) Payment is made for sleep ins, currently £31.58.
Interview date: To be confirmed
About the role
To assist in the day to day running of the hostel at weekends, ensuring the service is delivered in as efficient and effective way as possible. To provide advice and support to single homeless people and prepare meals according to your shift pattern.
Please read our Apply for a job at the council pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.
As part of your application, you will need to upload your Application Form and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as it will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (Application Form guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and (Shortlisting guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us
Company information
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
