Part-time Support Worker - 15 hours per week

BCHA; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Rewarding role

People skills development

Trauma-informed approaches training

Job satisfaction helping others

Full training and support to develop

Supportive environment

Job summary

BCHA is hiring a Part-time Support Worker for 15 hours per week in Bournemouth. The role involves conducting one-to-one sessions with residents at homelessness accommodation, building positive and respectful relationships to support independent living. Shifts cover early and late times on a seven-day rota.

The position offers full training and a supportive team, with opportunities to learn trauma-informed approaches and develop practical skills while making a real difference in the community.

Qualifications

• Be a good communicator and able to facilitate support for customers.
• Enable and empower customers to build their own recovery plans.
• Provide practical, emotional support and encouragement.
• Actively promote customer participation in services and activities.
• Liaise effectively with colleagues, external agencies & service providers.
• Be empathic and non-judgemental.
• Be self-motivated, able to use your initiative and be a great team player.
• Be flexible, adaptable, calm and considered.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key Support Worker for a number of customers, carrying out regular one to one sessions and building trusting relationships to move towards independent living.
• Carry out early and late shifts over a 7 day rota.
• Support customers to develop recovery plans and participate in services.

Skills

Communication

Empathy

Teamwork

Flexibility

Support facilitation

Customer empowerment

Job description

Part-time Support Worker - 15 hours per week

BCHA

Location: On site / St Paul's Ln, Bournemouth BH8 8AJ, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Medical & Healthcare | Social Care / Social Worker
Hourly Salary range:from £ 12.84 to £ 13.26

We need Support Workers to join the team at our homelessness accommodation in Bournemouth. This is a role where you can genuinely make a real difference, where you can add real value as part of a dedicated team of professionals

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You will act as a key Support Worker for a number of customers, carrying out regular one to one sessions, enabling positive, trusting and respectful relationships to be built and enable them to move forward to independent living.

This role is working early and late shifts over a 7 day rota.

We can offer you:

• a rewarding, challenging and varied role;
• the opportunity to combine your people and organisational skills;
• the opportunity to learn about and use trauma informed approaches;
• a role that gives you real job satisfaction in helping others;
• full training and support to develop your skills;
• the opportunity to work in a supportive and friendly environment

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• be a good communicator and able to facilitate support for customers;
• enable and empower customers to build their own recovery plans;
• provide practical, emotional support and encouragement;
• actively promote customer participation in services & activities;
• liaise effectively with colleagues, external agencies & service providers;
• be empathic and non- judgemental;
• be self-motivated, able to use your initiative and be a great team player;
• be flexible, adaptable, calm and considered
• have experience of our client groups, transferable skills or willing to learn;

Come and join us. Please, put in your application and if you fit the job requirements, we will be able to offer you a job interview as soon as one can be arranged (within a few days).

BCHA Safer Recruitment: Safeguarding children and adults is our first priority and we will ensure we follow safer recruitment procedures. As an employer, we will do everything possible to prevent unsuitable people obtaining employment with BCHA.

Our overall aim is to ‘deter unsuitable applicants from applying for roles with children and adults, and we will ensure that all candidates are treated fairly, consistently and in compliance with current legislation.

15 hours across 7 days 2 times 7.5 hours