Floating Support Worker

TN United Kingdom; Ilford; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking charity committed to empowering individuals to lead independent lives. As a Floating Support Worker, you will play a vital role in helping clients navigate their housing options and develop essential life skills. This position offers a hybrid working model, allowing you to balance your professional and personal life effectively. With a comprehensive training program and a supportive team environment, you will have the opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable individuals. If you're passionate about social change and have experience in client support, this is the perfect role for you.

Benefits

Salary increase after probation

Flexible working hours

25 days annual leave

Contributory pension scheme

Staff Health Cash Plan

Comprehensive training program

Qualifications

• Experience supporting clients with budgeting and housing options.
• Ability to manage risks and create action plans for vulnerable individuals.

Responsibilities

• Support clients to maintain independence and manage their accommodation.
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and develop support plans.

Skills

Client support

Risk management

Needs assessment

Substance misuse knowledge

Safeguarding issues

Time management

Job description

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You will be part of a diverse team that provides flexible support to its clients, aiming to enable them to continue living independently within their own homes, regardless of tenure type.

Our Redbridge Floating Support Service works across all housing tenures within the Redbridge borough to enable people with a range of support needs to maintain and sustain their accommodation and independence and/ or gain access to independent accommodation.

We believe that all our clients deserve the chance to obtain and develop skills that empower them to lead independent lives with confidence. It is our role to provide as many avenues to achieving goals and overcoming challenges as possible for our clients and we do this in a person-centred, progressive way.

A Floating Support Worker role is 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday. Hybrid working.

About you:

To be considered for the role you will need to demonstrate your level of competency in the following areas:

• Experience of supporting clients to carry out tasks such as budgeting, calculating benefit entitlements and understanding rent arrears and housing options.
• Experience of working in a client-centred support service working with vulnerable people presenting significant levels of need and risk, with an ability to devise and deliver on action plans through high quality risk management and needs assessment.
• A demonstrable level of experience and understanding of the range of approaches appropriate to working with issues such as substance misuse, mental and physical ill health, dual diagnosis, challenging behaviour, risk of homelessness, offending, antisocial behaviour, social isolation, domestic violence, gang-related issues, young parents, leaving care and learning disabilities.
• A thorough and current understanding of safeguarding issues and the ability to undertake comprehensive risk assessments.
• The ability to work within a strengths and recovery-based model and engage and motivate people to move towards an appropriate level of independence and inclusion.
• The ability to be self-motivating and manage time effectively, prioritising different areas of work according to need to ensure deadlines are met while maintaining work of a high standard.

About us:

At Single Homeless Project, we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to having a workforce that is made up of diverse individuals, skills, experiences and abilities. Due to current under –representation at management level, we particularly encourage applications from individuals within our Black and Asian communities.

Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

Closing Date: 14th January 2024 at Midnight

Interview Date: 24th January 2023

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant

Our attractive benefits package includes:

• A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
• A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
• 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
• A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
• Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
• Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work