Specialist Support Worker - Eastwood Studios

Homeless Link; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Hybrid working

London Living Wage employer

Pension – 5% Employer, 3% Employee

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

The Connection at St Martin’s invites applications for a 6-month fixed-term role delivering 24-hour supported housing services in Wandsworth. You will directly support residents, manage a caseload as a keyworker, and help create a therapeutic environment that enables access to services and sustainable housing options.

You will bring knowledge of housing options, health inclusion and social care entitlements, working with a network of professionals to stabilise lives and plan for longer-term

Responsibilities

• Provide direct support to all service users and manage a caseload of residents as the named keyworker.
• Deliver a therapeutic environment so clients receive intensive, bespoke and trauma-informed support.
• Build a network of professionals around service users to support stabilisation, access to services and longer-term housing plans.

Job description

About The Connection at St Martin’s

We believe that no one should have to sleep rough on London’s streets, and that everyone should get the support they need to find a place to call home. We get to know every person we work with, understanding what they need to recover, helping them build on their strengths, and supporting them to find their own way home. Help us make London a city where no one sleeps rough on our streets.

London’s diversity is its biggest asset and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects London’s diversity at all levels. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, faith or disability.

We particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience of homelessness who we believe are an essential asset in our sector.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and welcome the opportunity to consider flexible working arrangements.

About the Role

You will be part of a new 24-hour supported housing service in Wandsworth for 15 people experiencing homelessness and severe and multiple disadvantage as part of a six month pilot, accepting referrals from across Southwest London. Developed with subregional colleagues, it fills a strategic gap for people experiencing homelessness and severe and multiple disadvantage, including abuse, poor physical and mental health, substance use, offending and social exclusion. For these individuals engagement with services is creating a persistent barrier to their full assessment, support and plan to access services and move into longer term accommodation.

In this role, you will provide direct support to all service users, as well as holding a case load of residents who you will keywork. Together, you will deliver a therapeutic environment in which individuals feel safe and receive intensive, bespoke and trauma informed support so they can access the services they need to reduce the harms they are experiencing. You will bring strong knowledge of services, housing options, health inclusion, harm minimisation and social care entitlements. You and your team will use this knowledge and experience to build a network of professionals around service users to support stabilisation, access to services and longer term plans for their health and housing.

The post holder will undertake 8-hour shifts as part of a seven day rolling rota covering the hours 7.45am to 8.15pm.

This is a 6 month fixed-term contract.

Salary: £37,581 - £42,025 (Scale Points 19 – 25)
Closing Date: Monday 16 November
Interview Date: Wednesday 25 November

Our Benefits

• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Generous training budget, plus an annual personal training budget
• Enhanced Sick Pay Policy
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Day off for moving house
• Hybrid working (depending on role requirements)
• Pension – 5% Employer, 3% Employee
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Reward Gateway (access to discount vouchers and cashback at the UK’s favourite retailers)

We are a London Living Wage employer