Senior Caseworker

About Us akt is the UK’s national LGBTQ Youth Homelessness charity. We provide safe homes, mentoring, and support to ensure that no young person needs to choose between a safe home and being who they are. 24% of young people facing homelessness in the UK identify as LGBT (National Scoping of LGBT Youth Homelessness, akt, 2015) and 78% of LGBTQ+ young people cited an absence of family support (The LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness Report, akt, 2021). The charity was founded in 1989 and operates service centres in London, Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol and works online through a Digital Service to offer support to young people outside of our four office regions. akt works with over 800 vulnerable young people a year providing both face to face and online assistance. Job Summary To assist the Services Manager with establishing and embedding akt as a service across the Northeast, Yorkshire and the Humber, promoting the organisation to external agencies through presentations and networking events. Assist the Services Manager in overseeing day-to-day operations including casework, resources and safeguarding. To carry out holistic assessments of the needs of young LGBTQ+ people who are homeless, vulnerably housed, or in a hostile environment, and to provide advice, support, ongoing casework and advocacy to resolve housing or related issues. Assist in supervision/management of volunteers and social work students. Contribute to and maintain local resources and signposting routes to enable young people to engage with appropriate services. Finding accommodation options and housing solutions for young people and being creative in sourcing new accommodation routes and building relationships with accommodation providers in cooperation with the services team. Application deadline:

midnight (11.59pm) Sunday 5th January 2025 Interviews:

Tuesday 14th January 2025

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