Work with Us

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When you work with a young person trying to achieve their independence, you work as a team with talented and professional support staff and managers.  Comfy Homes managers fully understand the difficulties that the support staff face and will always help and support the staff to help them when they face difficult situations, not only in their work but also when struggling with issues in their personal life. 

Comfy Homes provides:

• Employee Assistant Program support for all staff
• Full training and induction 
• Flexible and part time working
• Pay at the London living wage rate
• Ongoing CPD opportunities
• Pension scheme

 If you are interested in applying for a keyworker role  at Comfy Homes, please email your CV to admin@comfyhomes.org.uk 

Specific Duties and Responsibilities 

• To maintain a high quality of support which meets the physical, emotional, intellectual, social and cultural needs of young people. 
• To provide a caring, supportive and nurturing environment in which young people can feel secure and free from harm. 
• Establishing positive relationships with young people and always offering them unconditional and positive regard. 
• Helping young people gain self-control by challenging unacceptable behaviour and rewarding acceptable, pro-social conduct. 
• Ensuring that each young person’s support plan is followed and amended as appropriate to reflect their changing needs. 
• Provide training in Independent Living Skills to enable independent living (budgeting, finding employment, cooking, cleaning, basic general maintenance around the home etc.). 
• To act as a key worker or co-worker for a young person to ensure that their support plans are up to date and that their needs are being met. To provide a positive role model to be able to offer advice, guidance and assistance where appropriate. 
• Establishing relationships which young people perceive to be positive, warm and rewarding. 
• Providing advice, assistance and support on a 1:1 basis to enable young people to address past and present difficulties. 
• Providing emotional support at times of difficulty or stress. 
• Being ambitious for young people, helping them achieve their goals and optimise their potential. 
• Providing support for young people in their education and extracurricular activities. 
• Keeping accurate records and providing written reports on young people for planning meetings, reviews or any other meetings as directed by the line manager. 
• Empowering young people and facilitating their active involvement in the decision making about their lives and future. 
• Acting as an advocate at meetings where the young person is the subject of discussion. 
• Encouraging the young person to develop links with the community, attend off-site activities and expand their personal social network. 
• Maintaining confidentiality whilst also meeting the Sharing Information protocols in regard to safeguarding.
•  Attending young people’s meetings and contributing to them. 
• Receiving training appropriate to the role and maintaining an up to date training profile. 
• Responsibility for the accurate maintenance of financial records appropriate to the duties of the post. 
• Responsibility for the health, safety and welfare of self and colleagues in accordance with the requirements of the organisational Health and Safety Policies.