The Wallich is a leading homelessness and rough sleeping charity in Wales.
Project Description:
Gwent BOOST is run as a partnership between The Wallich, St Giles Trust, Cyfannol Women’s Aid, Welsh Refugee Council, Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and Tai Pawb, the aim of the service is to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurrent. The project delivers a range of activities to give people with lived experience of homelessness opportunities to access training, gain worthwhile qualifications, undertake volunteering and secure paid work. It promotes more inclusive practices, psychologically informed approaches and adopts the principles of co-production.
Purpose Of Role:
We are seeking a dynamic individual to manage Gwent BOOST; a five-year National Lottery Community Funded Gwent Helping End Homelessness project.
The postholder will be adept at managing multiple stakeholder relationships, building strong connections across various sectors and be a creative problem solver.
A knowledge of the homelessness and housing sector would be beneficial, but we are open to applicants from other sectors who can bring across new ways of working and innovative approaches.
Hours Of Work: 37.5 hours per week – Monday – Friday 09:00-17:00 with some flexibility. Open to also consider individuals undertaking the role at reduced hours. Please specify this in your cover letter if applicable.
Location: Role is hybrid, with option to work from home or be based in an office location.
Contract: Fixed term until May 2027
We believe that everyone deserves the right to a home, but more than that, that everyone deserves the right to feel safe, to feel valued and to feel positive about their future. The Wallich operates under three core objectives: getting people off the streets; keeping people off the streets; and creating opportunities for people.
Our Mission - Getting people off the streets Our Rough Sleepers Intervention Teams (RSIT) continue to help the most vulnerable and chaotic homeless people on our streets by providing outreach in the form of hot food, advice, referrals and pathways out of homelessness. - Keeping people off the streets.
Our accommodation and support consists of residential projects in which we temporarily support people in accommodation that we also manage.
Cardiff Hub,
18 Park Place,
Cardiff,
CF10 3DQ
Cathays Train Station 0.3 miles / 7mins walk
Cardiff, Dumfries Place (Stop JH) 0.2 miles / 5mins walk