Support Practitioner - 485542

Turning Point Scotland; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Turning Point Scotland is recruiting a Support Practitioner for the WAYFinder North West Locality and Housing First in Glasgow North West. This full-time, permanent role offers working with adults with diverse needs in outreach housing and wellbeing support, providing practical and emotional assistance to help people achieve personal outcomes.

No previous working experience is required as full training will be provided.

Qualifications

• No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided.
• We value lived experience and inclusivity in our teams.
• You will be expected to work as part of a team to deliver person-centred support.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either 1:1 or with others.
• Deliver practical and emotional support to help service users achieve personal outcomes (safety, activities, health and wellbeing).
• Engage with service users, families and professionals to maximise engagement and outcomes.

Job description

Post: Support Practitioner

Service: WAYFinder North West Locality and Housing First

Based: Glasgow North West

Hours: Full Time (37 hours per week)

Salary: £25,879 - £26,843

Contract: Permanent

Do you have a passion for helping vulnerable people enjoy as much fulfilment as they can and feel included in their community? If compassion, care and inclusiveness are an important part of who you are, our opportunities to work away from the routine in a demanding, challenging but emotionally rewarding role could be for you.

Our Turning Point Scotland Services in WAYFinder North West Locality and Housing First are looking for people like you to help provide individualised support to adults with a wide range of needs, either on an individual 1:1 basis or alongside others and as part of a team.

Service Model - Outreach Housing and Wellbeing Support

We provide a range of different outreach Housing Support services supporting individuals with short to medium term interventions to either move on from their experience of Homelessness or prevent it happening in the first place. We also deliver longer term Housing Support often funded through personalised budgets / Self Directed Support (SDS) to meet individuals housing and wellbeing needs. We believe that Housing Support can be delivered upstream before Homelessness is even the faintest possibility, often where it is difficult to quantify the impact of our prevention work. Similarly, we see the importance of housing support to move people on from their experience of Homelessness and also any long term physical and emotional needs

The WAYFinder North West Locality Service delivers a person-centred delivery model that meets the diverse needs of people presenting to GCC under Homeless Legislation.

We deliver measurable, high-quality and consistent outcome-based interventions, we are creative and innovative and bring added value to improve both engagement with and outcomes for service users.

We provide a robust assertive outreach approach for individuals who are in temporary/emergency accommodation or moving on to permanent accommodation.

We work with 500+ people city wide, who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

WAYFinder NW provides support 365 days per year.

Operating hours - 8-8 Monday to Friday, 10 - 6 Saturday and Sunday.

The support we provide is always person centred, we do this by involving people who know the person well, this includes family and friends, other health and Social Work professionals, Advocacy services and our own staff members.

No previous working experience is needed; full training will be provided to you. We believe having the right values of respect, compassion, inclusion and integrity is all you need to join our team! We would offer you full support in completing your application.

As a Support Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.

We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.

We welcome applications from all candidates who are eligible to work in the United Kingdom. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.

Turning Point Scotland offers a Salary Matching opportunity within the pay points of the role and based on experience.

Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.

Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date