Senior Housing Support Worker (Driver)

Creative Support; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Probationary bonus

Pension contributions

28 days annual leave

Company-paid enhanced DBS

Job summary

Creative Support Limited in Grimsby, Lincolnshire, seeks a compassionate Senior Housing Support Worker to join our friendly team. You will hold a caseload and provide person-centered practical and emotional support while collaborating with senior staff to lead the service.

The role requires a warm, proactive approach, excellent written and verbal communication, and a clean UK driving license with access to a car. This is a full-time position with flexible hours including evenings and weekends.

Qualifications

• Hold a caseload of people you support with individualized, outcome-focused practical & emotional support.
• Must have a clean, valid UK driving license with access to a car.
• Supervisory experience is essential.
• Experience supporting people with housing-related support needs.

Responsibilities

• Hold a caseload of people you support, providing individualized, outcome-focused practical & emotional support.
• Work in line with support plans to help people succeed in tenancy, work readiness, community integration, independent living, finances, health & wellbeing.
• Oversee other support workers’ cases, ensuring positive outcomes, timelines and contract requirements.
• Assist senior staff in planning and delivering service operations (supervisions, rota planning, assessments & devising support plans).

Skills

Supervisory experience

Driving license

Communication skills

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.

• 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 a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Annual Leave and 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.