Floating Support Worker Wanted!!

Pay:

£13.50 - £16.00 per hour

Clients:

Ex Homeless clients within their own tenancies

Assignment

2-3 months plus

Hours:

Full time 37.5 hours, 0900 - 17:00 - 5 days a week across Monday - Friday

Location:

South and central London boroughs (Travel expenses covered)

Our social care, charity client is looking for a Floating Support Worker with experience working with ex-homeless clients within their own tenancies.

The successful applicant will be a part of an experiences team who provides, tenancy sustainment advice and independent living skills to those who need it most

Duties:

• Oversee a case load of 25 low to medium needs clients
• Each floating support worker is allocated a few selected high needs clients
• Organising your week by booking appointments with each client
• Writing up the monthly and weekly reports using clear written communication
• Helping your clients with budgeting, advising around what they can afford and how to get the most out of their financial position
• Help each client maintain their tenancy, reporting any damages, help each client keep on top of their financial responsibilities
• Support clients emotionally
• Empower you clients and encourage them to take up hobbies, attend appointments and apply for work, education, or training
• Promote independence and teach life skills to enable clients to move on out into an independent lifestyle

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Support Worker

We are looking for a Support Worker with an understanding of adults with learning disabilities and/or autism and the barriers they face within the community.

Our client is an independent local charity supporting children and adults with learning disabilities and their carers and families. If you enjoy meeting and interacting with people, then apply today!

Job Title: Support Worker

Location: Hammersmith (and surrounding London boroughs as required)

Salary: £11.05 per hour

Hours: Full (36hours) or part time

Contract:  Permanent

Benefits: The annual leave entitlement is 25 days in addition to Bank Holidays, 3% Employer Contribution Pension and an Employee Assistance Programme

Close Date: 9th July 2022

About the role:

As a Support Worker, you will support people with learning disabilities in their personal, social and health care needs as required.

Your main duties and responsibilities include:

• Supporting service users to maintain aspects of their daily lives.
• Providing help with personal care, including supporting with specialist hoist equipment where needed
• Providing help with eating, drinking, and monitoring overall health
• Facilitating social events or activities through our weekly schedule
• Creating opportunities for service users to develop, establish and maintain personal relationships and social networks.
• Encouraging greater participation and integration in their community
• Liaising with families, friends, advocates, external agencies, and the management team to provide a consistent approach that meets the individual needs of each service user
• Monitoring progress of service users and share information where needed
• Supporting people to be as independent as they can be
• Supporting people to understand and make informed choices about their life
• Treating all service users with dignity, respect and facilitate inclusion in all aspects of support

About you:

As a Support Worker, you will be a caring, compassionate, and enthusiastic person who understands adults with learning disabilities and/or autism and the barriers they face within the community.

The following skills and experience are required:

• An understanding of the different ways people with learning disabilities communicates
• Taking initiatives, being motivated and accountable
• Flexible worker with the ability to cover pre-allocated shifts, anytime Monday to Saturday
• Able to support clients who are wheelchair users
• Able to learn and work within safeguarding guidelines and other policies and procedures
• Team player with good understanding of system dynamics
• Observant and sensitive to service users’ needs
• Able to undertake personal care duties
• Empathetic and inclusive towards service users
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Enjoy meeting and interacting with people
• Competent swimmer

The Charity value a diverse and inclusive workplace, they welcome applications from everyone, so come as you are and join their team!

This position requires an enhanced DBS check and will require you to complete Safeguarding training within three months of appointment and refresher training thereafter

We very much welcome previous experience working as Home Carer, Care Worker, Health Care Assistant, Support Worker, Nurses, Social Care Worker, Care Assistant, Mental Health Care Worker, Voluntary Worker, etc.

Are you passionate about supporting our clients on their journey to recovery? 

About the role

We are looking for Project Workers to join our new service in Grange Road; a mixed gender 29 bed high support service providing person-centred support to clients with multiple disadvantages including mental health and substance use.

In this role you will:

• Deliver, in conjunction with other members of the team and partner agencies, support to clients with multiple support needs
• You will be carrying out comprehensive client assessments; providing clients with personalised case management support to help them be connected into specialist external services, to positively move forward in their recovery journey.
• Working with the team, as well as liaising closely with partner agencies and the night staff, you will work a rota that will involve some evening, weekend work, and sleep in shifts.  This role will pay unsocial hours.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Please note, the building is going through a full refurbishment which is on track and will be opening in October, however there might be some unexpected delays.

About you

Ideally, you will have experience of working with vulnerable people and an understanding of the needs of homeless people including rough sleepers. Strong communication, influencing and reasoning skills are also key, as is a flair for solving problems. Other qualities include knowing how to network and build effective relationships with people at every level, and a keen interest to keep abreast of current issues affecting homeless people, housing legislation, welfare benefit legislations and other matters relevant to successful support and move on of clients.

What we offer

Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

• We hold Investors in People Gold accreditation – one of just 3% of Housing Associations to achieve this. 82% of staff who took part in the survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.
• We are committed to developing all of our staff via routes such as secondments, transfers and promotion. In 2019 35% of our vacancies were filled by internal promotions.

A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

• Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work.
• We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves.

Pay and Other Benefits

• For this role staff can claim an additional 20% pay premium for hours worked between 8pm and 8am Monday to Friday, and all hours worked on Saturday and Sunday. 

• St Mungo’s is proud to pay client facing staff above average for the sector. We run a cycle to work scheme and also offer season tickets loans to all staff.
• St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 – 2020 we supported 32,800 people across all of our services. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website. 

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 10a.m 6th July 2022

Interview and assessments on: 19th & 20th July 2022

It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced/standard DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

#Care to join us?

We are looking for Support Workers to join our friendly and welcoming team here at Hft. This is your chance to make a real difference to people's lives

Experience is not essential as we provide all the training you need to be a confident support worker. Whether you are an experienced professional or completely new to the world of care, we want you to be a compassionate and friendly individual, who shares our Values.

What matters most is a positive attitude to life and a desire to support people to live their life with as much independence, choice, dignity and control as possible. You will need to have good listening skills and a practical, caring approach. Basic computer literacy is a necessity, as the role requires you to retrieve and record information using a variety of IT systems.

Location: Barnet, London
Salary / hourly rate: £11.05 + 10% overtime allowance for hours worked over the full time equivalent of 37.5 hours per week
Working hours: 37.5 hrs We provide 24/7 support to some people, so you will need to have flexibility to work shifts, including sleep in nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Employment type: Full Time

Closing date: 30/06/2022

A full UK driving licence is desirable for this role.

What will you be doing?

The purpose of your role is to give the highest possible standards of support to individuals with moderate to severe learning disabilities

This can range from supporting them to discover new interests, reaching goals like travelling or holidays and working positively with their families and friends. This will help individuals to engage in different leisure, home or work-related activities, all according to their personal choice

As a support worker, your responsibilities are varied and no two days are the same. As well as providing physical and emotional support you may be needed to help with household tasks and personal care as well as supporting individuals with healthcare needs, e.g. taking medication.

Everything you do will enable people to have choices about their own lives, providing flexible services that meet people’s needs, and always looking for the best way of doing things.

What’s in it for you?

There are a range of benefits and career development opportunities at Hft. We’ll give you a comprehensive induction, full training, and support along the way.

If you do not already have a relevant qualification in Health and Social Care, Hft will fully fund and provide training for you to obtain your Diploma in a Health and Social Care within the first 18 months of your employment.

With Investors in People and Skills for Care accreditation we are committed to investing in you to ensure you have the specialist skills and expertise needed to support people to live the best life possible.

We offer

• 25 days annual leave (plus 8 days statutory Bank holidays)
• 20% bank holidays allowance with an increased rate of 50% for Christmas Day, Boxing day and New Years Day
• Apprenticeships - Earn whilst gaining a fully funded Level 2 Diploma in Health & Social Care with a Top 100 apprenticeship employer (ranked 11th in 2020)
• Access to the Hft Plus benefits package
• Access to award-winning training and development
• Annual staff award scheme
• A contributory pension scheme & life assurance
• Free DBS Check
• Find your place with us and change lives.

We ask all our teams to take advantage of the Covid-19 vaccination, which is offered to frontline support workers as a priority group. We strongly encourage all colleagues to remain fully vaccinated as part of our wider infection control procedures

STRICTLY NO AGENCIES PLEASE

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications.

You may have experience or an interest in the following: Support Worker, Support Worker, Charity, Charities, Third Sector, Learning Disabilities, Social Care, Voluntary Sector, Mental Health Worker, Healthcare Assistant, Care Staff, Community Development, Relief Care Worker, Vulnerable People, Social Worker, Not for Profit, NFP, Flexible Working etc.

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Are you an optimistic, solution-focused admin assistant with a ‘can do’ attitude who is looking to develop your career?

About the role

This role offers an exciting opportunity for you to play a key role in providing a range of efficient secretarial and administrative services to our Service Directors. As the Admin Assistant for the Leadership Team you will work as part of our Leadership Admin Team, reporting to the Leadership Admin Team Leader. You will be exposed to the workings of the organisation, with consistent opportunities to learn about what the Leadership Team at St Mungo’s does, and how they do it.

In this role you will:

• Provide administrative support to our Service Directors, establishing and maintaining effective administrative processes
• Build relationships with the Service Directors and the wider Leadership Team and Client Services Leadership Team, and work with the rest of the Leadership Admin Team to ensure that efficient and effective administrative support is consistently provided
• Provide support, including minute-taking, for a range of key organisational meetings
   

About you

We are looking for an enthusiastic, proactive, and well-organised person for this Admin Assistant role. You will enjoy dealing directly with the public or customers in a busy service environment. To succeed, you will have the ability to work as part of a team and to initiate and maintain highly positive and effective working relationships with others. You will also have very strong written and oral communication skills; excellent attention to detail; strong IT and typing skills; and a good practical knowledge of Microsoft Office. Other requirements are the ability to process confidential information with the utmost discretion; and to manage your time and multi-task to deliver against agreed deadlines.

We seek to develop fast, self-motivated learners with transferable competencies and skills rather than expecting you to have necessarily worked in the same kind of role or organisation before.

What we offer

Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities

• We hold Investors in People Gold accreditation – one of just 3% of Housing Associations to achieve this. 82% of staff who took part in the survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.
• We are committed to developing all of our staff via routes such as secondments, transfers and promotion. In 2019 35% of our vacancies were filled by internal promotions.

A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place

• Equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work.
• We are proud of our commitment to diversity and inclusion and have 8 great Diversity Networks to support clients and staff from different backgrounds so they are able to be their best selves.

Flexible Working and Other Benefits

• We are committed to maintaining your work/life balance. We offer 25 days annual leave, and operate a very popular Flexi Time scheme, which allows you to supplement your annual leave entitlement. After 5 years, staff annual leave entitlement increases to 28 days.
• St Mungo’s contribute 4% of your gross annual salary, and you are able to enrol in the Defined Contribution scheme following a successful probationary period in which the employer contribution is 6%.
   

What we do

At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, our clients are at the heart of what we do, and in 2019 – 2020 we supported 32,800 people across all of our services. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.

How to apply

To find out more and apply please go to the St Mungo’s careers page on our website.

To view the job description and guidance on completing your application form, please click on the ‘document available’ tab at the top of the advert page on our website.

Closing date: 4th July 2022

Interview and assessments on: 14th – 15th July 2022

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

Prospectus is pleased to be working with a homelessness charity based in Newham, whose mission is to provide support to people who find themselves sleeping rough in East London by providing a safe and welcoming place to stay, and offering support through the provision of personalised support, educational and life skills opportunities. They are now seeking a Support Worker to join their dedicated Complex Needs team. This is offered as a temporary assignment initially for 3months, which the possibility of extension and/or a permanent opportunity for the right candidate.

As their Support Worker, you will provide a critical role in supporting the team in the day to day delivery of the Complex Needs service and contribute to the promotion and operational planning processes. You will work collaboratively with Assistant Support Workers to promote resident engagement, through the development of positive relationships and thereby contributing towards the promotion of a fulfilling, safe and inclusive environment. Finally, you will also use motivational and asset based interviewing techniques to assess and create support plans and risk assessments that address the needs of residents. Developing risk management strategies with the resident and other involved services, whilst ensuring all case work is properly recorded and all service offers and outcomes are entered clearly onto the case management system.

Due to the nature of the role, you will have experience in building relationships with vulnerable, disadvantaged or excluded client groups, as well as dealing with challenging behaviours within a similar setting to the homelessness sector. You will have experience of working in the provision of a safe operating environment, offering support to similar client groups who present with challenging and complex circumstances. With regards to competency, having a knowledge of relevant legislation is advantageous. E.g. Housing legislation, Rough Sleeping Strategies & the Mental Health Act will be favourable. To be successful, you will have good understanding of risk management and safeguarding in relation to people who experience rough sleeping as well as being naturally motivated, adaptable and a committed member of the team.

The working pattern for this position is Average 37.5 hours per week excluding breaks. You will be expected to work a flexible shift pattern that will involve working between Monday to Sunday within the hours 8.00am to 8.00pm on a rota basis. An Enhanced DBS for Adult is essential

To apply, please register your interest and submit your CV by clicking 'apply now' below. Covering letters are not required at this stage.

Recruiting for Bank Support Workers to join our services in Hammersmith and Fullham and Westminster!

GBP £11.07 per hour plus pension scheme. This role is working a zero-hour contract.

Job Overview:

Bank Support Workers have the ability to accept any shifts available on an ad-hoc basis across from all of Look Ahead's specialisms including Mental Health, Learning Disabilities, Homelessness and Young People. Bank Support Workers will provide support to customers to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs of the customers of the service. They will work with customers to promote social inclusion and alongside other members of the team to promote independent living, encouraging customers to maximise their skills and choices. Within Learning Disability services, this will include providing physical, domestic, emotional and social care. Within Mental Health and Homelessness services they will enable vulnerable people living in a variety of different tenures to manage their tenancies/ licences and move towards greater independence within the community by providing a flexible and individually tailored support package. While carrying out activities, Bank Support Workers should deal with all customers, visitors and staff in a professional and appropriate manner and report to Look Ahead staff and management any observations relating to customers' welfare.

Key Responsibilities:

- Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities
- Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers
- Conducting key work sessions that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve Support Plan goals
- Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of 'positive risk taking'
- Proactively manage risk and safety both in and outside of their physical living environment
- Support customers to undertake all domestic tasks wherever possible, including practical assistance where they have not yet developed the skills, to ensure customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation
- Undertake all administrative work and keep accurate and comprehensive tenant/customer records to professional standards
- Report any observations relating to customers welfare
- Develop and maintain links with all key agencies and service providers in the local area to provide a range of engagement opportunities for customers in the community
- Enable customers to make full use of community facilities by providing support as directed
- Carry out support duties to enable customers to integrate into the community including e.g. accompanying the customer to attend benefit agency appointments and meetings, go shopping, to enquire at colleges about possible courses, to visit various public amenities
- Empower customers to ensure they receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
- Engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
- Ensuring Look Ahead Health and Safety policies are adhered to at all time and to uphold all health and safety responsibilities within relevant policies and local protocols
- Adhering to all other Look Ahead's policies and procedures
- Encourage and enable tenants to pay their rent and to ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively in conjunction with the Housing Management team
- Ensure that referrals are chased proactively so that properties which can be used to house those in need are filled as efficiently as possible
- If a need arises, deliver all aspects of support to enable a customer to develop independent living skills as appropriate to the individual needs of the customer. In some services, this will include delivering personal and physical care as appropriate
- Carry out security duties to ensure the safety of the customers and premises
- Monitor the CCTV throughout the shift
- Undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned

The above sets out the key responsibilities and typical tasks, however not all of these tasks will be relevant to all specialisms. You may also be required to undertake various other tasks and duties to ensure that our customers' needs are fully and effectively met. The list is not exhaustive.

Person Specification:

- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
- Approachable and open behaviour
- Prefers working as part of a group or team
- Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
- Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
- Flexible
- Open to feedback and self development
- Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
- Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
- Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
- Is essentially customer-focused
- Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviours

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Applicants may have some previous relevant work experience. This may be experience gained from care of a vulnerable person or work in similar organisations. Prior experience is not a pre-requisite for the role as key behaviours and core competencies will also be taken into account.

Please see our website for the full job description.

Depaul UK is one of the UK largest youth homelessness charities and we support those who have been homeless or are at risk of homelessness. We are searching for a Floating Support Worker to join our team in the London.  In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £16,834 Per Annum (Pro Rata) Plus Pension and Other Benefits.

We are currently developing and expanding the work that we do with young people to prevent homelessness. This includes our well-established Nightstop service, which provides a safe place to stay in the homes of volunteers, as well as working with families and delivering a programme to schools, colleges and other educational and youth settings.

The Floating Support Worker Role: 

We are recruiting for a full time Support Worker to work within a number of services across West London. This is a new service we have recently acquired supporting a case load of up to 64 clients who are currently rough sleeping or ex-rough sleeping. 

As a floating Support Worker you will be assessing clients, supporting them with their work, learning, and emotional needs and coordinating move on accommodation.

About our Floating Support Worker:

You will have excellent communication skills and be committed to the values and ethos of Depaul UK.

• Experience of helping people with setting up benefits and maintaining their accommodation
• Knowledge of supported accommodation and other services vital to successful support while people are homeless
• Good literacy, numeracy and IT skills

Benefits of becoming our Floating Support Worker:

• Flexible working and family-friendly policies
• Access to Perkbox giving you deals and discounts for a wide range of brands
• Up to 7% contributory pension
• Paid training & personal E-Learning portal
• Sabbatical leave
• Health cash plan
• Paid DBS
• Death in service
• Cycle to work scheme

If this sounds like the perfect opportunity for you and you’d like to become our Floating Support Worker then please click ‘apply’ today – don’t miss out, we’d love to hear from you!

Closing Date for applications: Monday 27th June 23:59

An enhanced DBS disclosure is a requirement for this role. Our recruitment checks, induction, and ongoing support and supervision reflect our commitment to safeguarding our clients. Depaul UK strives to be equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.

We kindly request no contact from Recruitment or Media Agencies.

Role Overview

Job Title: Floating Support Worker

Location: Richmond, Wandsworth, Kingston in London

Salary: £27,948 per annum

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Refuge is the country’s largest single provider of specialist domestic abuse services, we are proud to be a leader in our field and an employer of choice, with excellent systems for supervision, quality management and development. For more information on our work.

We are recruiting for motivated, driven floating support workers (FSW) who are passionate about supporting women and children who are affected by domestic violence. These roles are part of a partnership for the Ascent Pan London Floating Support Service (FSS), which will provide high-quality domestic abuse support, ‘by-and-for’ services and counselling. This partnership will deliver trauma-informed, wrap-around, client-led support for those in safe accommodation, across London.

Referrals to the FSS will come through a single-point-of-access Freephone telephone number, or secure email operated by Refuge duty-workers. This will operate from Refuge’s Head Office in London. The duty line will operate Monday to Friday 09.30 am to 05.30 pm.

Referrals can come through any agency, or self-referral, but initially pathways will be established with all borough housing teams by FSWs working within tri-borough clusters who will build relationships within their localities. The FSS will accept referrals for any survivor living in safe accommodation except refuge, at any level of risk, on a needs-led basis.

Refuge, along with Advance and Solace Women’s Aid, will provide the ‘general needs’ support provision in the partnership. The support will be divided into geographical clusters of maximum three boroughs (shown below), with a Refuge floating support worker allocated to each cluster.

• Richmond, Wandsworth, Kingston 

The floating support workers will work closely with the central duty team (3 duty workers). Each service in the partnership has dedicated management to provide support and oversight for staff, and lead on safeguarding and project management. Refuge’s floating support service manager will manage the floating support workers and duty teams, taking overall responsibility for monitoring, reporting, and meeting outcomes across the floating support service.

These are new and exciting roles in Refuge, with opportunities for everyone in the new service to work across the partnership (and therefore the sector) providing high quality support to victims of domestic violence. 

The floating support worker will carry a smaller caseload of survivors and their children to enable them to provide a more holistic and intensive support package. They will work closely with victims of domestic abuse from the point of crisis, to provide high quality support to survivors of domestic abuse and their children.

The job involves informing survivors of the full range of civil, criminal and practical options that might increase their safety. There is an expectation that the FSWs will work in partnership with both statutory and voluntary sector partners to ensure that the whole range of survivors’ needs are met.

Benefits

Refuge offers a variety of exciting opportunities to learn, develop and grow in your career. We recognise the value everyone brings to the organisation to achieve our aims and are dedicated to developing and rewarding our staff. More details of our benefits can be found in Job Information Pack.

Other information

Closing Date: Monday 04 July 2022 at 09.00 am

Virtual Interview Date: W/C 10 July 2022

An enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) certificate will be required for this role.

Refuge is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. However, this post is restricted to women due to the nature of the role. The Occupational Requirement under Schedule 9 (part 1) of the Equality Act 2010 applies.

Housing First Project Worker

Innovative specialist project for women experiencing domestic abuse in Westminster

Location LB Westminster

Salary £29,000 - £31,000 pro rata per annum

Hours 37.5 per week

Contract Fixed Term ending March 31st 2023

Vacancy Ref.  S141

Closing date  27th June 2022 

Interview date4th July 2022

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring an end to the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular, women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our service and help us make a difference.

About the service

Housing First supports the most entrenched, excluded and hard to reach service users. It focuses on finding permanent housing as quickly as possible and then addressing the issues that have contributed to an individual’s homelessness. This Westminster-based Project works with homeless women affected by domestic abuse.

About the roles

The roles sit within our wider Housing First Team. The approach we use is assertive outreach and we work with a small caseload so we can offer intensive support.

About you

The ideal candidates will have experience of working intensively with service users and be adept at risk and needs assessment, and support planning.

You will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the intersection between domestic abuse and multiple disadvantage, have a developed understanding of how this can make it difficult for women to engage with support, and an ability to reflect on your own practice.

To apply

To apply for this role you will need to submit a CV and a covering letter via the recruitment portal detailing why you will be suitable for the role making reference to the Knowledge, Expereince and skills section of the JD attached.

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Solace is a Disability Confident employer. Please email us if you require additional support to apply for this role.

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to women applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, Part 1. Section 7(2)e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 applies. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) Disclosure will be required for this role.

Aim of the role: To support and empower our customers to increase their life skills

Hours: 37.5 per week.  Working on shift which is 5 days a week over a 7 day rota, including early mornings, evenings and weekends.

Benefits:

• As part of your employment package with us, we offer:
• a competitive salary, comprehensive training and development programme, 
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing each year to 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays after 5 years  
• option to buy or sell annual leave up to one week’s annual leave
• a health cash plan providing cash back towards healthcare bills and other wellbeing benefits
• occupational sick pay
• contributory group pension scheme
• free life assurance
• cycle to work scheme and season ticket loans

About the Role

The service is an 87 bed supported housing service for young people aged 16-24 years with a range of complex needs, including experience of homelessness or rough sleeping, substance misuse, mental ill health and offending. The role will require you to work alongside our customers, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, to help identify their strengths and skills so they can achieve their goals and aspirations. Managing all aspects of service delivery including casework management and the daily running of busy hostels and promoting an inclusive and passionate culture.

About You

As well as having experience of supporting vulnerable people who are at risk of gang affiliation and offending to achieve independent living, you must have a clear understanding of why people become homeless, and the needs and challenges they face.

You will be required to take on a caseload of customers, with responsibility for key working, co-ordinating support packages and proactively ensuring all required tasks and activities are completed.

You will provide coaching and guidance to your colleagues to assist their professional development.

You will be part of a dedicated and supportive team, and so will need to demonstrate a positive and inclusive approach. You must be able to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing, and be competent in the use of Microsoft Office Word and Excel applications.

About Evolve Housing + Support

Evolve is a leading homelessness charity in London, providing housing and support to over 2,000 people each year.

We believe in building on people’s strengths, aspirations and goals to help break the cycle of homelessness and help them move forward with their lives.

We offer a programme of support tailored to meet people’s individual needs, including housing, employment and skills training, mentoring and counselling. We work with young parents and children at risk of exclusion to build the skills and resilience that can help prevent homelessness. We campaign to end street homelessness. We build affordable homes to help people move on to an independent life.

Our mission is to help children, young people and adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness reach their potential, and move on to live happy, fulfilled lives.

Your application

Evolve Housing + Support is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including people who have experienced homelessness themselves.

Please ensure that your answers give a clear outline of how your application meets the criteria for this job.

Floating Support Worker x 2

Location: Tower Hamlets

Salary: £26,000-27,500 unqualified and £27,500-30,000 qualified pro rata per anum

Hours: 37.5

Contract: Fixed Term 1 year

Vacancy Reference:  S144

Closing Date: 04/07/2022

Interview Date: 11/07/2022

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

Tower Hamlets Solace Advocacy and Support Service (SASS) provides advice and support to people aged 16+ in Tower Hamlets who are currently experiencing domestic abuse. Tower Hamlets SASS is a team made up of core IDVAs, a Duty IDVA, Department for Work and Pensions IDVA, Housing IDVA, Housing Floating Support Worker, Mental Health Domestic Abuse Caseworkers and IRIS Advocate Educators.

About the Role

We are looking for two Floating Support Workers to join our dynamic team in Tower Hamlets, working with people who have experienced domestic violence and abuse. You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team, collaborating with external agencies in particular Housing Options.

As the FSW you will carry out risk and needs assessments, safety planning and support planning with survivors and advocate on their behalf with external agencies. You will be proactive in working alongside external agencies and helping them in their understanding of domestic abuse and supporting survivors.

About You

You will need a passion for working with victim/survivors and a thorough understanding of domestic abuse and its impact on women and their children, as well as experience of providing emotional and practical support and strong casework management skills.

You will have the skills to provide effective crisis intervention, carry out risk assessments, safety planning, assessment of needs and individual support planning. You should have demonstrable experience of working as a caseworker or similar position with this or a similar client group.

Ideal candidates will: 

• Ability to work independently
• Understanding of the dynamics and impacts of DA
• Knowledge of the legal and systemic framework for supporting DA survivors
• VAWG sector experience
• Ability to work collaboratively and empathetically with survivors, sector partners, statutory and voluntary agencies to build effective, boundaried relationships
• Thorough understanding of safeguarding
• Ability to pay attention to detail
• Be experienced in risk assessment, management and safety planning
• Expectation that all candidates will be non-judgmental and inclusive in their practice

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.

To apply:

Please send your CV and Supporting Statement outlining your interest in working for Solace and explaining how you meet the criteria set out in the Job Description & Person Specification. Along with this, please complete the Equality Monitoring form and send all three documents to us by the closing date. If for any reason you are having trouble downloading the documents, please email us and we will send you an application pack.

We will only accept CV’s and Supporting Statements with a maximum of 2 pages and Font size 12. Please ensure you send the correct documents by the closing date, as late CV’s and Supporting Statements will not be accepted.

Due to the number of CV’s and Supporting Statements we receive, Solace Women’s Aid cannot communicate further with candidates who are not shortlisted for interview. If you do not hear from us within two weeks of the closing date, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants from black minority and ethnic communities.

Solace is a Disability Confident employer. Please email us if you require any additional support to apply for this role.

Wellbeing Groups Worker

Location: Camden

Salary: £12,373.33-£13,226.66 pro rated from the full time salary of £29,000 - £31,000

Hours: 16 per week ( Flexible Monday to Friday working pattern)

Contract: Fixed Term ending 31/03/2023

Vacancy Reference: S113

Closing date: 27th June 2022

Interview date:  1st July 2022

Solace is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring to an end the harm done through domestic and sexual violence to all survivors, particularly women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

About the Service

Frances House Multiple Needs Refuge Service in Camden provides emergency accommodation to single women fleeing domestic abuse and VAWG (including exiting prostitution) who also have additional support needs: significant mental health (suicide ideation, self-harm, personality disorder, complex PTSD, psychosis, and paranoia etc.) they may also have a history of problematic substance and alcohol use and be involved with the criminal justice system. We also support women with NRPF and often have women with other significant disability and health and care and support needs. Frances House is staffed 24/7. We provide robust risk and needs assessments and safety planning plus emotional and practical support. We work in a trauma informed way implementing in practice a psychologically informed environment.

About the Role

• Facilitate various wellbeing and group activities collaboratively with service users
• Working in a trauma informed way to proactively encourage engagement
• Work with Frances House team to plan and evaluate groups and activates 
• Link with the weekend workers who also offer life skills and wellbeing groups to ensure there is a collaborative approach
• Support to arrange other volunteers to offer other wellbeing and life skills activities
• Ensure that groups are accessible to a diverse mix of service users

About You

You will have a good understanding of how best to work with women who have experienced VAWG, and who have other support needs including but not limited to significant mental ill health, substance, and alcohol use, suicidal ideation, NRPF, additional learning needs and care and support needs.

You will be skilled at breaking down barriers by forming positive relationships with women who have had negative experiences of support services, building confidence and eliciting motivation

You will have a strengths-based approach and follow the principles of coproduction.

A resilient and assertive approach is necessary to reach out and build trust and positive relationships with women who have complex/multiple needs and who may present as reluctant to engage and/or may be presenting in crisis.

You must have excellent organisational, ICT, written and verbal communication skills

Solace Women’s Aid values diversity, promotes equality and challenges discrimination. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applicants from black minority and ethnic communities.

Solace is a Disability Confident employer. Please email us if you require any additional support to apply for this role.

This service is run by women for women and is therefore restricted to female applicants under the Equality Act 2010, Schedule 9, and Part 1. Section 7(2) e of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 apply. The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act.

As part of safer recruitment we require all successful candidates will be required to complete a satisfactory DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure.

No agencies.

Job Title: Amari Floating Support Worker Part – Time

Location:  Lambeth/Newham/Greenwich

Salary:  £11,093.33-£12,800 FTE

Unqualified applicants, £26,000 - £27,500 per annum pro rata Qualified applicants (with an accredited VAWG /domestic abuse qualification):  £27,000 – £30,000 per annum pro rata. Please note, successful candidates are usually appointed at the bottom of the relevant salary banding.

Hours: 16 hours per week -Hybrid Working model

Contract: Fixed Term Contract until March 2023

Vacancy Reference: S124

Closing Date:  1st July, 2022

Interview Date: 4th July, 2022

Solace Women’s Aid is an innovative, exciting, grassroots charity working across London. Our purpose is to bring an end to the harm done through domestic and sexual violence for all survivors, and in particular women and children. Our work is holistic and empowering, working alongside survivors to achieve independent lives free from abuse.

You will be joining a team of committed and inspiring individuals whose dedication has saved the lives of thousands of women, men and children in the capital. We are looking for friendly and diligent individuals to join our services and help us make a difference.

About the Service

The Amari Project provides 2nd stage Supported Accommodation to women who have been sexually exploited, trafficked or who have exited Prostitution.

About the Role

The Part- Time floating Support Case Worker will provide casework to support to residents in Lambeth, Newham, or Greenwich. You will provide case work to residents to a minimum of  one session on a fortnightly basis.

You will ensure that the properties are maintained to a good standard and regularly coordinate health and safety checks, reporting issues to the Landlord. You will be responsible for providing data for supporting the Full -time worker in collating monitoring data and facilitating training internally and externally.

About You

The ideal candidate will possess knowledge and experience of supporting women who have experienced trafficking and sexual exploitation. You will be required to have an awareness of the impacts of trauma on survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

You will have experience of managing risk and following case management procedures to meet the needs of the client group, and the ability to work with women to help them to understand their needs, risk assess, develop safety plan and support them in linking with other agencies.

You will have a working knowledge of the available legal remedies, housing, and welfare benefits, as well as experience of providing training.

Outside of this, you will have excellent administrative and time management skills and the ability to effectively manage a caseload.

In return, we offer great employee benefits including three per cent employer pension contribution, generous holiday entitlement and a focus on learning and development.