Housing Support Officer Immediately Required
Duration: Permanent
Location: Leicester
Hours: Monday – Friday 09:00am-17:00 (Potential requirement for some evenings / weekends)
Rate: £10.88 per hour
An opening has arisen for immediately available Housing Support Workers for an organisation in East Midlands. This position will require candidates who have previous experience of support individuals within community offering generic Housing related support go i.e. Maximising benefits, corresponded support, Health and well -being checks etc
The successful candidate have experience in a similar position and be responsible for:
- Reduce the risk of losing the accommodation for tenants
- Provide help and support in acquiring the skills to maintain and retain independence
- Manage service to minimise cost by identifying savings and value for money initiatives
- Ensure good financial control of contract budget
- Help customers maintain positive health and wellbeing to reduce or avoid crisis in health and wellbeing and improve social inclusion within an accommodation setting
- Enable customers to sustain and maintain their own home, living as independently as possible
- Achieve and maintain customers potential in relation to physical, intellectual, emotional, and social capacity
- Contribute to the provision and the delivery of high quality independent living support services and develop strategies in consultation with other organisations and agencies and social inclusion
- Ensure the effectiveness of the Service and maximise potential for development
- Carry out individual customer’s needs and risk assessments and review the assessment as appropriate
- Devise and routinely review support plans tailored to individual needs
- Provide individual support sessions
- Liaise with all agencies
The successful candidate will have:
- An Enhanced DBS
- Able to communicate in Gujarati/Hindi
- Have previous experience within supporting those vulnerable with sustaining their tenancies
To discuss this role in more detail and to secure this opportunity, please contact Kim Parsons (Executive Consultant) on 0121 616 0660 or alternatively email kparsons@venngroup.com
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