Casual / Locum Support Workers (Homelessness / Vulnerable Adults)
Oxford / Reading
Salary: £11.07 / £12.97 per hour depending on role
Flexible working
Are you looking to work flexibly, in a varied role where you can make a real difference helping homeless people to rebuild their lives?
If so, you may be interested in joining our clients locum bank. They are looking for individuals to play a key role in supporting the delivery of their services.
About the role
Our client’s Oxford and Reading Rough Sleeping Services are looking for people to join their local locum bank.
In Reading they are looking for people to support their Outreach team. As an Outreach Worker Locum, you would be expected to work early and late shifts, making contact with rough sleepers in the community.
In Oxford our client have several opportunities for Locum Workers, suiting individuals with varying degrees of experience. In their Rough Sleeper Service, they are looking for workers to support the running of the Assessment Hub and working with clients, but also welcome candidates who do not have direct experience and are looking to develop their skills within the sector.
As a Locum Worker you can work flexibly, on an ad hoc or temporary basis. In joining the Locum bank you will be able to link yourself to services where you would like to pick up shifts and take on the number of shifts that fit your individual circumstances. In order to provide you with ongoing support you will be allocated a supervising manager and you will have access to mandatory training to ensure you have the tools to keep our clients safe. Our client offers enhanced pay for bank holidays and you can also accrue holiday pay.
Your role could include assessing the needs of individual rough sleepers on the streets, key working clients, supporting the day-to-day running of hostels, carrying out health and safety checks and working with external agencies.
What our client are looking for
These important roles will suit people with:
Experience of helping vulnerable people to identify personal goals and supporting them through a process of change
An understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerable people and the difficulties they experience in accessing services.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to build positive relationships with a wide range of people and deal with those who may be in a difficult personal or emotional situation.
Above all, we are looking for inspirational, committed individuals who have a genuine desire to support people to rebuild their lives.
What our client do
Their vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association, their clients are at the heart of what they do, and in 2019 they supported nearly 30,000 people who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Their locums play a crucial role in helping us to make this happen.
How to apply
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: 10am on 29 June 2020
Interview and assessments on: TBC, from 13 July 2020
It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
At our client, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how they work. They are in the top 100 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2020, they are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and they are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that their workforce reflects the diversity of their clients as well as the communities that they live and work within, they encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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COMMUNITY SPONSORSHIP DEVELOPMENT WORKER
37 hours per week
Fixed Term Contract until April 2022
SCP20-23 £25,295 - £26,999
BASED ACROSS THE DIOCESE OF SALFORD AND LANCASTER
Working closely with the Refugee Response Manager, the Community Sponsorship Development Worker will be at the pioneering edge of this still relatively new initiative to support vulnerable refugees resettle in the UK.
They will engage and collaborate with parishes or community groups within the dioceses of Salford and Lancaster who are sponsoring families and will contribute to capacity-building work within Caritas to develop and monitor systems to ensure the safe resettlement of families. In doing so they will ensure that high standards are consistently achieved in ensuring the project is safe, welcoming, effective and provides a quality service in relation to refugee support.
Experience of working with asylum seekers/refugees, volunteers and community groups is essential. Additionally you must have experience of delivering professional community or social action services to people in need.
Caritas follows Safer Recruitment practices and this post is subject to an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service checks.
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The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
If you are a personable, confident and client focused Resourcing/Recruitment professional or have relevant, transferable recruitment experience, this is an exciting opportunity to genuinely make a difference, helping St Mungo’s to meet our growing talent needs and supporting work that really changes and rebuilds lives.
In this busy and varied role, you will work with managers across London and the South East, providing an efficient and effective recruitment service for permanent, casual, temporary or self-employed workers.
Working from our head office in London, you will:
- Build effective working relationships with local managers, candidates and recruitment partners
- Advise on recruitment policy, processes and best practice recruitment
- Deliver regular training sessions related to recruitment and selection
- Develop recruitment marketing materials, advertising and social media campaigns
You will line manage up to 2 Recruitment Administrators ensuring that the pre-employment checking and on-boarding for new starters is progressed quickly, and that any delays or issues are quickly resolved in partnership with the hiring manager.
You will be based from our offices in London, with regular travel travel to other locations across England as required.
You may have worked directly in an HR or Resourcing team before, but we also welcome applications from those with relevant transferable experience; for example, recruitment experience in relation to volunteers, temporary staff or perhaps from recruiting staff to a team you have managed.
If you are able to build effective relationships quickly, understand great customer service and can work with colleagues to solve problems and are assertive enough to be in a standalone role we would be delighted to hear from you.
Closing date: 10am on Monday 24th August
Virtual Assessments and Interviews: 3rd and 4th of September
What we offer
- Excellent Development and Growth Opportunities
St Mungo’s employees are encouraged to consider opportunities to develop new skills or progress including; secondments, internal transfers, application to new roles in the organisation or just to get involved in various projects happening within the organisation.
As a result last year 35% of our vacancies were filled by promotions. In 2019 we achieved We Invest in People Gold level accreditation and are one of just 3% of housing associations to achieve this standard; 82% of staff who took part in the IIP survey say St Mungo’s is a great place to work.
- A Diverse and Inclusive Work Place
At St Mungo’s is a Disability Confident Employer, we are in the top 100 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2020 and we are. 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. Our Networks include: BAME, Carer’s and Parent’s, Lived Experience, LGBTQIA+, Disability Awareness, South West, Irish and Women’s Action.
- 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 we supported nearly 30,000 people who were either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Our staff are crucial to making this happen.
Our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions.
As a homelessness ch... Read more
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.