Support Worker
Required via Venn Group
A Supported Living organisation in South Devon is looking for a temporary to permanent Support Worker to join their team in providing practical support to vulnerable clients experiencing homelessness
Location: South Devon
Duration: 3 Months temporary to permanent
Hours: 37.5 on a shift rota basis: 8am – 4pm, 2pm – 10pm, 8am – 8pm (1 weekend in 3)
Rate: £12.66 via Umbrella
Vacancy: J62663 / 62824
Day to day responsibilities include:
- Develop therapeutic and positive relationships with clients ensuring that they make full use of their time whilst using the service
- Build relationships and engage with clients, ensuring suitable psychologically informed interventions are in place to ensure client’s needs are identified and met
- Support customers with needs in relation to homelessness, substance abuse, mental ill health, welfare rights, tenancy management, criminal activity and life skills
- Enable and empower customers to build their own recovery capital and support them into long term, sustained recovery and social integration
- Support and encourage customers to identify their own strengths, goals and how to take steps to achieve them
- Advise on a diverse range of issues including homelessness prevention, landlord and tenant issues, homelessness solutions and liaising with external services
- Conduct structured one to one session and record all progress
- Prepare breakfast and dinner for customers
- Prepare and review risk assessments and risk management plans as part of the Assessment process
- Actively engage in learning opportunities; identify better and more efficient ways of doing things
- Be familiar with and fully compliant with all localised safeguarding requirements and company Safeguarding Policies and protocols
Essential job requirements:
- A current enhanced DBS
- Previous experience of working within a Supported Living Service
To apply for this role or to find out about other Supported Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing Recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.