Bank Project Worker

Sanctuary Supported Living; Uttlesford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community support provider in Uttlesford is seeking a Project Worker to help customers recover from homelessness. The role focuses on personal support, assessment of needs, and building strong relationships. Ideal candidates will have experience with vulnerable adults and organizational skills. The company provides excellent benefits including health plans and discounts.

Benefits

A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers

Health and well-being plans

A wide range of learning and development opportunities

Responsibilities

• Provide support to encourage customers to maximise their potential and independence.
• Assess customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans.
• Liaise with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health, and wellbeing.

Skills

Experience working with adults who have experienced homelessness

Strong organisational skills

Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative

Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong 'can-do' attitude

Ability to react quickly to changing priorities

Education

NVQ3 in Health and Social Care or willingness to work towards it

Job description

The role of Project Worker will include:

• Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence
• Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
• Being a first point of contact to receive and direct all customer queries
• Developing relationships with customers, ensuring they maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity
• Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health, and wellbeing, and offering training and encouragement towards employment and education
• Handling occasional emergency situations
• Keeping accurate and high-quality written records

Skills and experiences:

• Experience working with adults who have experienced homelessness
• Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
• Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy
• Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets
• NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards it, is essential

Are you ready to be your best?

Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are some of the rewards:

• A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
• Health and well-being plans
• A wide range of learning and development opportunities

Job Reference: 225243

We are currently only accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK.

If applying internally, please use your internal careers account to submit your application.

We may receive many applications, so we reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Please apply early to avoid missing out.

Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organization where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We believe that a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.