Support Worker

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Barry; On-site; GBP 25,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support service in Barry seeks a Male Floating Support Worker to provide housing-related support for individuals with mental health challenges. The role involves developing support plans and working closely with clients to enhance their independence. Applicants should possess experience in providing support services and have strong communication skills. This position offers 30 hours per week and a salary of £25,027.20 pro rata.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals with mental health conditions.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Understanding of the issues faced by vulnerable individuals.

Responsibilities

• Provide housing-related support to individuals in the Vale of Glamorgan.
• Develop and review support plans focused on individual needs.
• Work under the guidance of senior staff to achieve project goals.

Skills

Person-centred approach

Housing-related support

Effective communication

Job description

Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.

Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £25,027.20 per annum (pro rata)

Based at: Barry

Role Purpose:

The provision of specifying ‘Male applicants only’ for this vacancy is justified under the exceptions set out in the Equality Act 2010, under schedule 9, part 1: occupational Requirements. The service provided by Adferiad requires a male Floating Support Worker to achieve legitimate aims.
Adferiad provides a floating support service for individuals living in the County of Vale of Glamorgan who have long term, enduring mental illnesses who require housing-related support. The project is funded by the Vale of Glamorgan County Council Supporting Team. The focus of the project is to develop or sustain an individual’s capacity to live in their own accommodation and achieve increasing levels of independence. Adferiad staff support referred individuals with housing-related support needs either to support them to find a new home or enabling individuals to live independently in their own home.
Under the direction of the Senior Service Manager and Senior Support Worker, you will work as part of the team and lone work to deliver support to the clients, providing high quality and effective housing related support service. You will utilise person centred approaches to set goals, review and develop support plans that best meets the individual’s needs, which focusses on people’s strengths and sets goals of sustain their tenancies and live independently.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.

FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=3d501042-9e0c-48f4-951d-f790adae95bf

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