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Bank Project Worker
Job summary
A leading support service organization in Barrow-in-Furness is seeking a Bank Project Worker to assist individuals experiencing homelessness. The role involves providing essential support, developing relationships, and assessing customer needs. Candidates should have experience in a related field and an NVQ3 in Health and Social Care is essential. This position offers flexibility and the chance to make a real impact on people's lives.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Experience in a support role for individuals facing homelessness.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to document support plans and keep accurate records.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to customers facing homelessness to maximize independence.
- Assess customer needs and update support plans.
- Liaise with external support links for training and encouragement.
Skills
Education
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Department: Health and Social Care (Qualified and Non-Qualifie
Operation: Sanctuary Supported Living
Closing Date: .
Requisition: 225579
Bank Project Worker
St George's House, Salthouse Road, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 2JJ
£13.34 per hour
Hours as and when required
Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for a Bank Project Worker at our Homelessness Service, St Georges House, Barrow-In-Furness.
At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible.
We’re a national organisation, but we’re not-for-profit and we think locally by putting our customers at the heart of what we do. We’re committed to being our best and helping customers to be their best, as we support them on their pathways for independence.
No matter your job – delivering support directly or working in our offices to support our frontline teams – your work makes a difference every day.
And working with us isn’t just another job. It’s rewarding, inspiring, exciting and it provides an opportunity to make a real, positive impact on people’s lives. Plus, we’ll support you in reaching your aspirations and career goals, through comprehensive training and benefits.
The role of Bank Project Worker will include:
- Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence
- Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
- Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries
- Developing relationships with customers, ensuring that customers maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity
- Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health and wellbeing and offer training and encouragement towards employment and education
- Handling occasional emergency situations
- Keeping accurate and high-quality written records
Skills and experiences:
- Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness
- Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
- Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
- Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy
- Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets
- NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential
Are you ready to be your best?
Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are just some of the ways we’ll reward you:
- A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
- Health and well-being plans
- A wide range of learning and development opportunities
Job Reference: 225579
We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK.
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We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Don’t miss out, please apply early.
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.
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