Key Worker
| Posting date: | 10 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £23,582 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 December 2025 |
| Location: | Rotherham, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | South Yorkshire Housing Association |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 10577 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Key Worker to work at Burns Court. We are a forward thinking, values driven housing association, this role is based at our Rotherham offices.
Burns Court is a 10 bed (individual self-contained flats) unit with a staff office, located in Maltby, Rotherham. The service has recently been recommissioned by RDaSH to deliver housing related support to ensure individuals with primary Mental Health needs, have access to safe, comfortable homes.
The team would work closely with the Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) in Rotherham, attending Multi-disciplinary meetings and providing holistic support. Customers would be supported for a period of up to two years, with the emphasis to move on into an independent living space.
Our wider benefits:
Salary – £23,582
Working hours – 37 hours per week
Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days, pro rata.
5% pension contribution
Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share.
Excellent benefits including:
SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts. Plus advice and resources on health eating, financial wellbeing, exercise and mastering your mental health
Westfield Health (employer paid)
Counselling
Discounted Gym membership
Cycle to work scheme
Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you
For more information about our range of benefits, please visit the Your Wellbeing and Feeling at Home.
More about the role:
Our aim is to equip each customer with personal, social, vocational and practical life skills; enabling them to take control of their life and live independently within the community.
We are looking for individuals with a real commitment to supporting our customers to achieve their aspirations, goals and help them maximise their full potential. These roles can be challenging and are highly rewarding.
We believe that everyone has a right a safe and secure place to call home, and the stability that it brings.
Who you are:
Could you empower someone with enduring mental health issues to gain the most from their life? The role of a Key Worker includes supporting our customers to develop the skills necessary to maximise their independence.
The successful candidate would need to:
Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and risks our customers experience and an understanding of how to develop plans of support to overcome these.
Show enthusiasm about helping others, be approachable and encouraging with customers to achieve their goals.
Possess a positive 'Can Do' solution focused attitude to fit in with a small team and build on the successes of this excellent A-rated service.
Who we are:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.
Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.
Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.
At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
SYHA does not hold a sponsorship licence and are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 this is an excluded job.
Please click here to apply – https://careers.syha.co.uk/vacancy/key-worker-601605.html
For more information about our application and interview process, plus answers to our frequently asked questions, please click here to go to our Candidate Toolkit.
For an Informal Discussion Contact: Daryl Williams (d.williams@syha.co.uk )
Closing Date: 24.12.2025 at midnight
Interview Date: 08.01.2026
Burns Court is a 10 bed (individual self-contained flats) unit with a staff office, located in Maltby, Rotherham. The service has recently been recommissioned by RDaSH to deliver housing related support to ensure individuals with primary Mental Health needs, have access to safe, comfortable homes.
The team would work closely with the Assertive Outreach Team (AOT) in Rotherham, attending Multi-disciplinary meetings and providing holistic support. Customers would be supported for a period of up to two years, with the emphasis to move on into an independent living space.
Our wider benefits:
Salary – £23,582
Working hours – 37 hours per week
Generous holiday entitlement – 27 days annual leave, statutory bank holidays plus an additional 4 SYHA days, pro rata.
5% pension contribution
Excellent flexible working options including Flexi Time, Condensed Hours, Part Time, and Job Share.
Excellent benefits including:
SYHA Rewards - employee discount scheme, which offers cash back and shopping discounts. Plus advice and resources on health eating, financial wellbeing, exercise and mastering your mental health
Westfield Health (employer paid)
Counselling
Discounted Gym membership
Cycle to work scheme
Access to a wide range of programmes to train and develop you
For more information about our range of benefits, please visit the Your Wellbeing and Feeling at Home.
More about the role:
Our aim is to equip each customer with personal, social, vocational and practical life skills; enabling them to take control of their life and live independently within the community.
We are looking for individuals with a real commitment to supporting our customers to achieve their aspirations, goals and help them maximise their full potential. These roles can be challenging and are highly rewarding.
We believe that everyone has a right a safe and secure place to call home, and the stability that it brings.
Who you are:
Could you empower someone with enduring mental health issues to gain the most from their life? The role of a Key Worker includes supporting our customers to develop the skills necessary to maximise their independence.
The successful candidate would need to:
Demonstrate an understanding of the needs and risks our customers experience and an understanding of how to develop plans of support to overcome these.
Show enthusiasm about helping others, be approachable and encouraging with customers to achieve their goals.
Possess a positive 'Can Do' solution focused attitude to fit in with a small team and build on the successes of this excellent A-rated service.
Who we are:
At South Yorkshire Housing Association, our purpose is for our customers to settle at home, live well and realise their potential.
Feeling settled and living well means different things to the people and families that live across South Yorkshire. So, we work with people in different ways – from our extra-care housing, to providing services and opportunities that individuals can access in their home, workplace and community, to creating houses for affordable rent.
Our employees enable us to create the best services, support, and experiences for our customers. We believe that difference makes us better, and that our services are made stronger by having a diverse workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from all backgrounds.
Please note that we may remove this advert prior to the advertised date, dependent on the level of response received. Please apply at your earliest convenience.
At SYHA, we value the incredible contribution and talent that people with disabilities can and do bring to our workplace and we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. As part of our commitments, we will ensure that disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at interview.
To be considered under the scheme, disabled applicants must disclose their disability (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) on the Equal Opportunities section of the job application.
SYHA does not hold a sponsorship licence and are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
For the purposes of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 this is an excluded job.
Please click here to apply – https://careers.syha.co.uk/vacancy/key-worker-601605.html
For more information about our application and interview process, plus answers to our frequently asked questions, please click here to go to our Candidate Toolkit.
For an Informal Discussion Contact: Daryl Williams (d.williams@syha.co.uk )
Closing Date: 24.12.2025 at midnight
Interview Date: 08.01.2026
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