Senior Housing Support Worker (Driver)

Creative Support Ltd; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

probationary bonus

pension contributions

28 days Annual Leave

company paid enhanced DBS

Job summary

Creative Support in Grimsby, Lincolnshire is seeking a Senior Housing Support Worker to join our team. You will manage a caseload and provide person-centered practical and emotional support to individuals with varied housing-related needs, including tenancy and finances.

You will supervise other workers, help plan services, and contribute to smooth operation of the service, including staff rotas and assessments. A driving license and flexible hours are essential.

Qualifications

• Supervisory experience and ability to oversee others.
• Experience supporting people with housing-related needs.
• A clean, valid UK driving license with access to a car.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of people you support with outcome-focused practical and emotional help.
• Work with support plans to assist tenancy, work readiness, community integration, independent living skills, finances, health and wellbeing.
• Oversee other support workers' cases to ensure positive outcomes and contract compliance.
• Support senior staff in planning and delivering smooth service operations (supervisions, rota planning, assessments, and support plans).

Skills

Supervisory experience

Experience supporting housing-related

Driving licence (UK)

Job description

We are looking for a compassionate, motivated individual to join our friendly team in Grimsby, Lincolnshire as a Senior Housing Support Worker.

Our service provides housing-related support to people with a range of support needs, including mental health, learning disabilities, substance misuse, ex-offenders, and people experiencing homelessness and financial struggles.

As a Senior Housing Support Worker, you will have a varied role, from collaborating with other senior staff to lead a team, to providing person-centered practical and emotional support to people with a variety of support needs.

will vary from helping to lead a team alongside other senior staff, to providing person-centered practical and emotional support to people with a variety of support needs.

Key responsibilities include:

• Hold a caseload of people that you support, providing individualized, outcome-focused practical & emotional support.


• Work in line with support plans to help people succeed in areas such as: tenancy support, work readiness, community integration, independent living skills, financial management, health & wellbeing.


• Oversee other support workers' cases, ensuring positive outcomes, reasonable timelines, and contract requirements are met.


• Support senior staff in planning and delivering smooth service operations (such as staff supervisions, rota planning, carrying out assessments & devising support plans)

The successful candidate with have a warm, proactive approach, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Essential requirements:

• A clean, valid UK driving license with access to a car.


• Supervisory experience


• Experience supporting people with housing-related support needs.

This is a full-time position (37.5 hours per week). Hours are to be worked flexibly according to the needs of the service, including evenings, weekends and public holidays.

Vacancy Reference Number: 93920

Creative Support's Development Pathway offers a structured induction and values-led training to help staff grow from entry-level to leadership roles. It empowers career progression through tailored learning aligned with national strategies and the WE CARE framework.

Benefits of working with Creative Support include:

• probationary bonus


• pension contributions


• 28 days Annual Leave


• company paid enhanced DBS

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received an Investors in People Gold award.

Applications are reviewed as they are received, we do not provide feedback for unsuccessful applications. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK.