The Group Living day keyworker role will give the successful candidate the opportunity to support young people, aged 16-18 care leavers and looked after children, to learn life skills and progress towards their own tenancy. Implementing fantastic interpersonal skills will empower young people to achieve and strive for more.

We work as part of a team with some shifts lone worked. At Group Living projects there are both Day and Night keyworkers, working across the whole week including weekends to guarantee a 24/7 service, supporting young people as required.

In these role you will work as part of a team that is based at our Group Living Project, working together to support an array of young people with different needs. This role will also work alongside other Roundabout services and other professional services (such as, social care, leaving care and health care professionals,) therefore excellent multi-agency working and communication skills are necessary.

The successful candidates will support young people from diverse
backgrounds who have experienced trauma, and therefore any applicants with additional specialist skills, such as knowledge of the asylum system and trauma-informed support, would be well received.

Roundabout’s values are that we care, we strive, and we are creative. The successful applicant would be expected to support and demonstrate these values to support our young people.

You will be playing a vital role, key working our residents to develop life skills, make safe choices, manage their mental wellbeing and build up a community network. You could be supporting our residents to manage complex issues, such as family breakdown, substance misuse, navigating the asylum process, amongst many others. This is in addition to helping them with more day-to-day challenges such as budgeting, accessing education and employment, preparing for adulthood, and maintaining a
tenancy.

The Group Living service currently has three 24/7 staffed projects in
Sheffield, and together we provide a community for our young people.