Support Coordinator

Home Group; Consett; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Home Group as a Support Coordinator, where you will empower customers with diverse needs by creating tailored support plans and facilitating their independence. The role offers a supportive work environment, excellent benefits including 34 days leave, and opportunities for professional growth. Be part of a team that values individual uniqueness and challenges the status quo.

Benefits

Health cash plan

Generous pension scheme

800+ high street discounts

34 days leave increasing to 39

Colleague wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Experience of creating person-centred support plans.
• Ability to work on own initiative and stay calm under pressure.
• Experience in delivering support in a housing or care environment.

Responsibilities

• Create and update support plans and risk assessments.
• Support customers with varied needs including mental health issues.
• Maintain properties to ensure a clean and homely environment.

Skills

Person-centred support planning

Customer advocacy

Crisis management

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

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This is your chance

to unleash the potential in our colleagues, delivering excellent outcomes for our customers!

Typical day as a Support Coordinator

Working under the support and supervision of your Senior Client Service Manager and Senior Support Coordinator, to ensure our customers receive the necessary support to develop their independence and enable them to reach their desired outcomes.

Supporting customers with varied support needs including mental health issues, housing related support, complex needs and responding appropriately to challenging behaviour.

You will create and update support plans and risk assessments with your customers. Helping them with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation.

Reviewing support plans and risk assessments when required to ensure your customers needs are being met.

Ensuring our properties are well maintained, clean and homely. This not only ensures our customers have a nice place to live, but it also helps with keeping our voids to a minimum.

Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, we're in the top 10 forGreat Places to Work in the UK!

You have

Experience of creating person-centred support plans risk assessments and reviews

Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.

The ability to workon your own initiative, remaincalm under pressure and havea resilient approach.

The understanding of where our customers are in their life and have the passion to advocate for them.

Experience of delivering support in a housing or care environment

To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship toexternalcandidates for this role. This remains under regular review.

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you! Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers. We’re really proud of our recent Ofsted registration, meaning that we can continue to provide support to young people under the age of 18. We’re a supportive bunch and like to get together socially from time to time, whether it be for a coffee or a glass of wine (or two)!!

Job details

The service is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will work on a 4 week, rolling rota, including weekends, and bank holidays. This rota does not require you to work night shifts.

Occasionally, there may be a requirement for you to work flexible hours in order to meet the ever-changing needs of our customers.

Morning and late shifts may include a period of time where you will be lone working.

Basic knowledge/aptitude of Microsoft Word and Excel is essential.

Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.

You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!

Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.

Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.

Generous pension scheme with life insurance of 3x salary

Great Place to Work – Home Group has been voted as the 4th best workplace in the UK, meaning that we are the highestplacedorganisation on the list in housing, health and social care, and the only housing association in the top 30.

We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!

Colleague wellbeing really matters to us. There are a number of tools and support available to help you when you need them.

Explore ourbenefits in detail on our website.

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Closing Date

:02.Jul.24, 6:59:00 PM