Young Person Independent Living Officer

Location: Manchester Foyer, 61 Booth St W, Manchester M15 6PP

Hours: 17.5 per week (Between Monday to Saturday, 8am to 8pm)

Contract: Temporary 6 month FTC

At MSV Housing we’re committed to making sure our customers have good quality safe homes and our Young Person Independent Living Officer are key to making this happen. 

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic individual  to join our established team. Reporting to our Foyer Manager, our Young Person Independent Living Officer’s provide support to vulnerable young people by ensuring regulatory compliance, safeguarding, and delivering tailored, person-centred support that promotes independence and personal growth. It also involves collaboration with key stakeholders and the promotion of the Foyer model to help young people thrive through structured opportunities and mentoring.

 In addition, we are looking for candidates that have a passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities. 

What do our YPILO’s do; 

• Conduct initial and comprehensive assessments for at-risk children and young people, providing direct support, crisis intervention, and referrals to appropriate services, including for mental health and neurodiversity needs.
• Manage safeguarding cases, maintain accurate records, attend statutory meetings, and ensure timely updates to support plans, risk assessments, and case notes.
• Build strong relationships with internal teams, external partners, and statutory agencies to coordinate care, improve outcomes, and ensure effective service delivery.
• Guide residents through licence agreements, monitor rent and occupancy charges, support benefit access, and assist with move-on accommodation and tenancy sustainment.
• Coach and mentor residents using a strengths-based approach, promote education, training, and employment, and ensure adherence to MSV and Foyer policies and procedures.

What we are looking for; 

• Good standard of education with minimum of 5 GCSE’s or equivalent at Grade C or above including Maths and English.
• Experience of advocacy on behalf of customers.
• Experience of working with customers with Mental Health and Vulnerabilities
• Good understanding of mental health and vulnerable customer needs of a knowledge of trauma informed practice
• Managing and prioritising a demanding workload.

We're committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. As this job is based in a supported housing project for young people and children an enhanced criminal records background check (free of charge to you) is required. A criminal conviction does not necessarily stop you from working with us. All decisions regarding convictions will be made on a case-by-case basis. Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding young people can be found in our Safeguarding policy attached alongside this vacancy’s candidate pack. 

We offer a range of great benefits including:  

• 33 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, and a holiday a buy scheme.  
• Company pension scheme with up to 10% matched contributions 
• Company funded access to a health cash plan, where you can claim back costs of everyday health treatments such as optical, dental and much more. 
• Enhanced sick pay with up to 3 months full pay and 3 months half pay 
• Health and Wellbeing Support including an employee assistance programme, free counselling, mental health first aiders and numerous wellbeing initiatives  
• Life assurance subject to being a member of our company pension scheme. 
• Learning and development to support you to develop the skills you need to fulfil your role and progress in your career 
• Commitment to Equality and Inclusion with employee network groups covering anti-racism, LGBTQ+, disability and long-term health conditions, carers, and menopause. 

MSV are committed to Equality and Inclusion all applications are scored against the essential criteria of the role; however, we encourage candidates to submit an ammonised CV if they can do so. 

MSV are also committed to supporting you to balance work and life, including with any caring or parental responsibilities you might have, and have a range of flexible working options and wellbeing support available to all colleagues to facilitate this.

For more information about the role please visit our careers page where you will find a candidate pack and apply for the role.  https://www.msvhousing.co.uk/careers/job-vacancies/  

If you wish to discuss the roles informally, please contact Helen Walker, Foyer Manager on 07936947990.

Interviews are scheduled to take place at the end of July however interviews may be carried out throughout the recruitment process and the role closed if a suitable candidate is found. Therefore, we strongly recommend candidates to apply early.  

We’re passionate about inclusion and we’d love to hear from people from diverse backgrounds for this role. 

If you are not sure whether you meet our requirements for this role, but want to apply. Go ahead. We will decide whether or not you are what we are looking for.