Recruiting a Specialist Support Worker to join our Mental Health service in Tower Hamlets!

£24,000 per annum, 40 hours per week plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Tower Hamlets Adult Mental Health Rehabilitation House provides suitable accommodation and a therapeutic program to support people in their recovery and rehabilitation following a hospital admission for mental health problems. The service is founded on the principles of Recovery: Emphasis is placed on helping individuals to develop or rediscover their own unique skills and coping strategies and to positively use the resources that are available to them within their community and extended social networks. The house is staffed and run in a way that is sensitive to the diverse cultural needs of service users in Tower Hamlets. It also provides a high degree of privacy and a homely and welcoming environment to all who choose to use it.

The Bethnal Green Community Mental Health Team BG CMHT will also deliver complex NICE compliant interventions as required in partnership with Rehab.

The Rehab is a 24-hour service and staff operates on shifts: early 8-4: mid: 9-5 or 10-6, Late: 2-10pm. There are no sleep-in as service is managed by a Night Support Worker and a Concierge.

Specialist Support Worker will be required to demonstrate strengths in all the indicators set out in the relevant Look Ahead Competency Model. More specifically, the post-holder will:

- To provide intensive support (both practical and emotional) to people living in the Project
- To act as a positive influence on clients encouraging responsible behaviour and self reliance
- To support people in a way that maximises their self-sufficiency and enables them to live independently in their own homes
- To act as a resource co-ordinator and advocate in order that clients can make informed choices about how they live in the local community
- Agree the initial treatment/recovery plan with service user, including; clinical assessment, ensuring the health and wellbeing

Key Responsibilities:

Practice

- Undertake key working responsibilities for a caseload assigned by the Team Leader/Manager
- Undertake initial & continuous assessment of needs and potential risks & agree levels of support and actions
- Create support/ action plans for providing appropriate services based on the assessment and reflecting the services and resources available
- Provide structured support and guidance to other front line staff in their area of expertise, and to contribute to the relevant internal specialist forum
- Develop and maintain links with all key agencies and service providers in the local community
- Empower customers to ensure they receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
- Undertake all administrative work and keep accurate and comprehensive tenant/customer records to professional standards
- Encourage and enable tenants to pay their rent and to ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively in conjunction with the Housing Management team
- To adhere to Look Ahead's Policies and Procedures
- To engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
- Undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned

Liaison with Other Agencies

- To liaise with the referral agency to ensure that full information is given to enable a proper assessment to be made of future clients
- To work collaboratively with staff from the Tower Hamlets Rehabilitation and Recovery Service in performing joint assessment to determine the appropriateness of referrals to the service
- To advocate assertively to statutory and voluntary agencies to ensure that clients' needs are met
- To maintain good relationships with all involved professionals and agencies
- To maintain good liaison with the clients' immediate community and family
- To build up and maintain contact with a full range of community workers

Housing Management

- To explain the terms of the Tenancy Agreement and to ensure that clients understand all the services within the accommodation
- If clients are moving into independent accommodation, to help make the transition and setting up of their new home
- To take lead and responsibility in setting up ways of paying for rent, utilities, bills etc.
- To provide advice and help on future housing needs

For more information or to apply please visit our website.

Recruiting a Waking Night Specialist Behaviour Support Worker to join our Learning Disabilities service in Newham!

£16,874 per annum, 30 hours per week plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Nimrod House is a 24 hour support service, with 5 self-contained flats, for individuals with learning disabilities. The flats are tailored to customers' complex needs, containing bespoke features and technology that minimise risk. The service works with families and clinicians as part of the NHS Transforming Care Agenda which integrates individuals back into the community, designs person centred support, promotes independence, skills and relationships to produce better quality of life.

Waking Night Specialist Behaviour Support Workers are responsible for the customer's emotional and psychological well being, as well as providing support to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs. This will include providing physical, domestic, emotional and social care during night time. They will work with customers to promote social inclusion and alongside other members of the team to promote independent living and encouraging customers to maximise their skills and choices.

Key Responsibilities:

Behaviour Analysis

- You are liable to observing and monitoring the customer's behaviours, the duration, the intensity, and the damage, as well as factors that may alleviate or aggravate the behaviour
- You are responsible in planning appropriate intervention to modify and resolve the behaviour
- You require superb interpersonal and relationship skills and must have the capacity to handle psychologically behavioural changes
- You understand and collaborate with the different support organisations accessible in the community
- You exhibit a concrete basis in behavioural analysis
- You will have the ability and skill to present and feedback to other professionals in a formal settings
- Reports possible cases of abuse, neglect or endangerment appropriately
- Actively participates in the reviewing and the designing behavioural interventions plans.
- Implements behaviour support plans
- Measures goals and objectives of behaviour support plans to ensure they are being met
- Communicates with parents and care managers in regard to customer's progress in the absence of management
- Analyses the behavioural interventions to determine their success
- Assists customers in identifying inappropriate behaviours and develop better behaviour alternatives
- Assists newly recruited staff in facilitating behavioural interventions
- Maintains up to date accurate records of customer's, service being provided and behavioural data

Other Responsibilities

- 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
- 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
- Participate in the support planning and risk management, as facilitated by the lead Support Worker
- Carry out security duties to ensure the safety of the customers and premises
- Monitor the CCTV throughout the night shift
- 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
- Report any observations relating to customers welfare
- Adhere to all the policies and procedures of Look Ahead Care & Support plus those specific to the project including any statutory requirements
- Ensure Look Ahead Health and Safety policies and local protocols are adhered to at all times
- Maintain records as required at the project under the direction of the support workers/management
- Participate in team meetings/reviews and the general development of the service
- Undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.

For more information or to apply please visit our website.

As part of our family support service, The Joshua Tree provides opportunities for all members of our families to connect with and gain support from our team of support workers. This is an exciting new role funded by Children in Need, with the post holder being the first point of contact for the amazing children and young people visiting our new purpose-built family support centre. This includes children and young people that are newly diagnosed with cancer; on treatment and post treatment, as well as siblings and wider young family members.  By developing a positive, trusting and caring ongoing professional relationship with the children and their families, the families will feel comfortable and confident in visiting the centre on a regular basis.  We envisage the centre to be utilised during the daytime, after school times, in the evenings, at weekends and during the school holidays, therefore flexibility on working days and times is essential.  Initially we will be open Thursday evenings and Saturdays, in addition to office open hours throughout the week.

The key purpose of this role is to deliver a high quality, child-focused environment and service. It involves maintaining the playroom, teenage areas and playground, as well as planning, organising and implementing activities, programmes, groups and individual care plans to suit the children and young people. By providing supervision and care to the children and young people visiting the centre, this will also support the adult members of the family. The role includes liaising with other members of the family support team to co-ordinate targeted interventions when required e.g. counselling, art therapy, nutrition advice, personal training, school support etc. As well as face to face work, online sessions will also play a big part within this role. This includes providing Zoom sessions for individuals and groups, leading various therapeutic programmes and activities.

This role involves an element of administrative duties as well as directly supporting children and their families mainly at the Support Centre in Northwich. Visiting our families in North Wales and visiting children in their homes and schools, may occasionally be expected. Therefore, an element of travel can be involved (up to an hour driving distance). Therefore, post holders must hold a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle. Mileage expenses will be covered by the employer.

This role will be emotionally demanding. A full induction programme and training will be provided. We are a very supportive team, offering regular supervision and reflection time to support emotional wellbeing.

With the development of the Support Centre, we envisage some of the ways we deliver support being adapted, to promote the use of the facility by our families. Therefore, this role is subject to review, to reflect these ongoing developments.

The post holder will follow The Joshua Tree's values and effectively communicate with service users, their families, colleagues and educational and healthcare professionals.

Job Purpose:

• To deliver an intensive support service to families who are part of the Think Family programme and who have complex needs including domestic violence, drug and alcohol use and safeguarding concerns. Working with a small caseload of families for 5-8 hours per week you will be required to work with other agencies to assess need and coordinate a family support intervention with families in their home or the community 

Duties and Responsibilities

Development & Support Work:

 To work within Birmingham’s Family CAF process to assess whole family need liaising with other relevant partners as appropriate

 To hold a caseload of families who are part of the Think Family programme and work with them to secure positive engagement

 To conduct whole family assessment and planning and take on the role of Lead Professional for the family

 To engage partner agencies in the development and delivery of an agreed integrated support plan relevant to identified needs

 To provide direct and intensive interventions to support families to make required and sustainable changes

 To maintain appropriate records and documentation in line with BSWA’s agreed case file standards and ensure progress and achievement of outcomes is effectively and appropriately evidenced

 To promote children, young people and women’s participation in all aspects of service delivery and development

 To work effectively with partners from a range of children and adults services in order to meet needs and improve outcomes for children, young people and their families who are in need of additional support

 To identify and attend training and conferences relevant to the post in agreement with your line manager

 To keep up to date with current legislative changes for dissemination within the staff team and for use when working with women and children around their rights

Administration:

 To work within BSWA’s administrative and financial systems.

 To ensure that Health and Safety records are kept up to date.

 To produce monthly reports for your line manager.

 To monitor and evaluate the service via various methods including feedback from service users and produce statistical information.

Communication:

 To ensure that all staff team members are aware of any matters that are relevant to the welfare and security of the refuges, staff, volunteers and service users by: a) maintaining BSWA communication records b) following safety procedures c) attending team and other meetings d) carrying out risk assessments in conjunction with your line manager  To attend in-house training

 To attend support and supervision sessions with your line manager

 To develop professional working relationships internally and with external agencies

 Feedback relevant issues from external meetings/training to the staff and management teams as appropriate

Training:

 To identify and attend training relevant to the post in agreement with your line manager

 To work alongside colleagues to organise in-house training and information sessions on a range of issues for service users

 To raise awareness of the impact of domestic violence on women and children and of the BSWA services

General:

 To maintain the confidentiality of the women, young people and children using the service

 To maintain confidentiality in all matters relating to the organisation

 To offer an equal service to all women and children regardless of age, class, culture, language, race, religion and sexual orientation, adhering to BSWA’s framework for equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice

 To ensure the efficient use of resources at all times

 To maintain an awareness of the issues surrounding domestic violence on a national and local level with a particular reference to those related to working with children and young people

 To work within BSWA policies and procedures and demonstrate a commitment to the values and ethos of BSWA

 To undertake any other duties required by BSWA which may arise incidentally, develop or be assigned commensurate with the post

 To participate in the development and annual appraisal of a personal individual development plan with the line manager 

Location: Greater London.

Salary:

Qualified applicants (with an accredited VAWG /domestic abuse qualification) dependent on experience: £26,000 – £29,000 per annum.

Unqualified applicants, dependent on experience: £26,000- £27,000 per annum

Hours: Both full time (37.5 hours per week) & part time hours will be considered

Contract: Permanent

Vacancy Reference: SWA2981

Closing Date: 2nd October 2020

Interview Date: 19th October 2020

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

Our Crisis Intervention Team provide front-line support to Solace’s Advice, Community and Accommodation-based Services across London. Crisis Intervention Workers enable our services to deliver a consistent, high standard of service. 

The team was created in order to have trained, skilled staff ready to cover gaps in service and facilitate the continued smooth running of services, proactively supporting women and children who have experienced domestic abuse.

About the Role

As a member of the Crisis Intervention Team, you will cover vacancies in a variety of roles, providing a high-quality support service to survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. This role is an excellent development opportunity which will allow you to gain experience in a wide range of services. 

The length of a placement within a service can range from several weeks to a few months. You will receive a local induction to the service at the start of the placement.

For all roles, you will carry out risk and needs assessments, safety planning, and individual support planning with survivors as well as advocating on  behalf of service users with external agencies, implementing the empowerment model and a strength based approach.  All work should be service user led and trauma informed.

Within Community Services, you will typically fill roles as a Caseworker or IDVA. As a Caseworker you will provide user led one to one support. As an IDVA you will also contribute to the local MARAC process to improve survivor safety.

Within Accommodation Services you will typically fill the role of Refuge Worker. You will ensure the smooth running of the refuge, including the admission of survivors of domestic violence to the refuge. You will work with women to devise a support plan that meets their immediate practical and emotional needs and starts the process of recovery, linking women into more specialist support services where required.

As a member of the Advice Service you will provide an effective and efficient advice and casework service to women affected by VAWG. The responsibilities include working on the advice line on a rota-basis and providing accurate advice, support, advocacy and casework to women and girls affected by all forms of VAWG as well as professionals. The role also includes supporting and supervising our volunteers on the line. Ensuring the duty inbox is checked and the referrals are processed.

About You

If you demonstrate commitment, innovation, passion, non-judgemental and collaboration, you’ll thrive in our diverse feminist team of professional women. 

Ideal candidates will have:

• Sound understanding of practical, emotional, social and economic issues affecting survivors of domestic and sexual abuse.

• In-depth knowledge advising on a range of options including safe housing, criminal justice, civil remedies

• Demonstratable knowledge of adult and children safeguarding

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to thrive on working under pressure, prioritising workload and crisis management

• Sensitive and non-judgemental approach when working with vulnerable clients

• Experience of needs led risk assessment, support and safety planning.

• CAADA/Safe Lives/Women’s Aid IDVA or DAPA qualified (Desirable), or willingness to study.

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

Due to the nature of this role, an enhanced DBS will be required.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Community Intervention Worker to join us based in London. You will join us on a full time, fixed term contract until March 2021. You will work 35 hours per week excluding meal breaks working a 7-day rota with shifts being conducted between 6am and 7pm Monday to Sunday. In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £28,981 per annum (NJC Scale range 19-22) inc LW + pensions and other benefits.

About the role:

The Community Intervention Worker will help eliminate rough sleeping and associated street activity near the Passage Resource Centre in London Victoria. You will engage with and providing advice, support and assistance to enable rough sleepers to access accommodation and other services relevant to their needs. This is to be carried out within a multi-agency partnership framework and through a combination of brief interventions, sign posting and referrals to encompass all aspects of outreach work. The Passage is committed to working within a Trauma and Psychologically Informed framework keeping the client at the centre of all our work.

Key responsibilities of our Community Intervention Worker will include:

- Engaging with and gather intelligence around clients bedding down and/or involved in street activity on the streets in and around Victoria to build relationships and offer support to improve the health and wellbeing
- Taking a multi-agency problem solving approach, working in collaboration in regard to street counts, case conferences and joint work with other agencies involved with the client
- Facilitating supported reconnections or resettlement for rough sleepers to the services and areas most appropriate for them either directly or via NSNO or PHAC
- Using The Passage Resource Centre as a base, undertaking client work and administration as detailed in the staff rota, undertaking flexible duties to cover for sickness and holidays, as designated
- Assisting in the promotion of the work of The Passage to VBID, government, funders, press and media, and visitors and raise awareness of homelessness provision in Westminster and related services via presentations for VBID Stakeholders
- Responding  to the needs of allocated Wards, liaising with businesses and residents as required
- Attending fortnightly VBID team meetings and ensure a weekly presence at VBID offices to develop and build on existing working relationships with the VBID team
- Maintaining individual, up to date and accurate client data by inputting into The Passage client recording systems and CHAIN
- Taking part in pan-Westminster operations and audits as requested by the Community Liaison Coordinator

Our ideal Community Intervention Worker will have the following skills, experience, and knowledge:

Experience

- In depth experience of working with homeless and vulnerable people either through paid or voluntary capacity
- Experience of working in a psychologically informed way and employing psychological techniques in working with vulnerable adults
- Experience of conducting thorough assessment of people’s needs, entitlements and aspirations that are asset-based and deliver to multi-agency support plans
- Experience of working flexibly in different locations (including the streets), and different times as directed by client need and management
- Experience with w client-centred recovery focused approach and the necessary social skills to initiate and maintain constructive and appropriate relations with clients and agencies in a detached street environment

Knowledge

- Understanding the support needs of the street populations with complex health, and housing needs
- Understanding and use of a personalized approach in working with clients who live

on the streets or who are vulnerably housed
- Knowledge of equal opportunities and related issues for homeless and vulnerable people
- Knowledge of relevant housing legislation and the housing options available to homeless people
- A working knowledge of the main welfare benefits
- A working knowledge of the main housing legislation relating to homeless people

Closing date - 10am on 9 October 2020

Interview date - Week beginning 19 October

If you would like to join us in the role of Community Intervention Worker, please click ‘apply’ now – we would love to hear from you!

An opportunity has arisen within Worcestershire County Council, in conjunction with Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust to recruit an Employment Support Worker to work with Community Assessment & Recovery Service (CARS). The service is county based and the post holder will be based at either New Brook, Princess of Wales Community Hospital in Bromsgrove or Studdert Kennedy House in Worcester.  This is to join an existing, well established Employment Services Team which covers the county of Worcestershire and holds accreditation from the Centre of Mental Health as a Centre of Excellence for Individual Placement and Support (IPS).

You will be required to:

• Proactively manage a caseload of people who have experienced mental health problems who are unemployed and economically inactive.
• Provide employment support for our client group who are furthest away from the job market to move them closer to their employment goals, in the hope that these achievements aid individuals’ recovery and social inclusion goals.
• Work within a multidisciplinary environment with service users with complex needs, supporting them to move into employment and sustain this to aid recovery, in conjunction with key stakeholders.
• Supporting clients once gained employment, and/or aiding those who are employed and experiencing difficulties within the work place retain employment
• Liaise closely with DWP providers. 
• Work proactively at employer engagement including educational, voluntary work and pre-vocational training opportunities and supporting employers on reasonable adjustments and retention of employees where necessary.

You will have experience both in the field of employment support and with clients experiencing mental ill health

You be capable of working independently and have the ability to take initiative, including making direct approaches to employers.

Personal experience of recovery from mental ill health is seen as an additional advantage in applying for this post although not essential.

Closing date: 11/10/2020

Provision interview dates of the 26th / 27th October 2020

Recruiting a Support Worker (Until 31st March 2021) to join our Young People Service in Lambeth!

£22,360 per annum, 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension Scheme, staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Lambeth Accommodation Based Young Peoples Service consists of 5 different properties across the borough providing support to 32 young people, aged 16-21. Each property contains between 5 and 9 units and are a mix of self-contained flats and shared facilities. Customers receive support for up to 2 years. There are 2 staff offices; one at Trent Road in Brixton and one at Wolfington Road in West Norwood. Support Workers will have a caseload of customers across the various properties for which they are responsible and will provide support to help them develop the life skills they require.

Job Overview:

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. The rota will include 8.00 - 16.00 and 14.00 - 22.00 shifts as well as weekends.

Key Responsibilities:

- Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers
- Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities
- Supporting key customers to set personalised goals in the form of a Support Plan
- Conducting regular 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
- Providing support with daily living activities, including practical assistance where skills are not yet developed, to ensure that customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation
- Proactive development of links with local statutory and voluntary organisations to provide a range of engagement opportunities for customers in the community
- Involving customers in the design, development and delivery of the service
- Empowering customers to ensure they receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
- Encouraging and enabling tenants to pay their rent and ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively
- 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
- Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
- Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager

This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead.

Person Specification:

- Non-judgemental, respectful and person centred in approach
- Ability to maintain boundaries
- Ability to be a positive role model
- Ability to engage with and form positive relationships
- Ability to convey empathy and warmth to Young People
- Desire to continue professional development
- High degree of emotional intelligence

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:
- Good written and oral communication skills and good recording and report writing skills
- Ability to engage with and form professional relationships with professionals from across a variety of agencies
- Ability to appropriately manage challenging situations and conflict
- Ability to use evidence based approaches to the delivery of direct interventions to Young People e.g. social pedagogy model

Desirable:

- Experience working with young people in supported accommodation setting
- Good knowledge of local area it's amenities and services

For more information or to apply please visit our webiste.

Support Worker

Are you interested in a career where you will make a real difference in young people’s lives? Do you understand the challenges which young people face in daily life? Is a career as a Support Worker the next step in life for you?

Our client is currently looking for a kind, caring and friendly person to join their professional team as a Support Worker. Experience is not essential and full training will be provided but understanding the issues young people face in their daily life will really help to make a difference.

You will be based within our clients Residential Home in Preston working shifts over a 37.5 hour working week consisting of earlies, lates and sleep-ins.

Company Benefits

- Competitive pay (£9.54 p/h + £100 bonus after completing 6-month probation)
- 22 days holiday + 8 bank holidays
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities (NVQ Level 3 in Adult Health & Social Care)
- Enhanced company pension
- Life Assurance 2 x your annual salary
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Paid Induction (Running over 7 days)
- Free on-site parking
- Paid Enhanced DBS check
- Employee Assistance Programme / 24-hour Counselling Service
- Online shopping discounts, free eye tests and various other benefits
- The opportunity for internal promotions & progression
- Refer a Friend Scheme (Up to £500 per referral)
- Regular social events and recognition schemes (‘Employee of the year awards’, Summer & Christmas parties)

Your role as a Support Worker

- To carry out direct and indirect care of young people with complex mental health needs
- To work in a team, giving the highest standard of care possible to the young people.
- To closely follow individual care plans and support young people with education, shopping, and social and leisure activities.
- To carry out multiple interventions involving the delivery of care to young people
- To promote independence amongst the young people
- To provide support, advice and information to the young people, parents and other carers

Requirements of a Support Worker

- Flexibility - Your role will involve working shifts including sleep ins/weekends/Bank Holidays
- Good verbal communication skills and the ability to listen to others
- Good written skills and the ability to write basic reports and record information accurately
- IT Literate (Able to write emails and use Microsoft Office)
- An understanding of the issues around confidentiality
- An understanding of safeguarding
- Professional working boundaries between staff and service users
- Ability to remain calm in emergencies, supporting others during difficult situations

Desirable Criteria

- Full UK Driving Licence
- NVQ Level 2 qualification or equivalent in Care
- Previous experience of working with young people who have mental health needs

Due to the current climate regarding the Covid-19, all of our clients interviews are now taking place as a Video/Audio Interview over Microsoft Teams.

Training will be carried out at the beginning of each month over 2 days covering First Aid, Safeguarding and Therapeutic Risk Management and breakaway techniques. This is paid for along with travel expenses.

The closing date for this position is Thursday 8th October 2020, so if you are interested in developing and supporting young people and young adults with complex difficulties then please ensure you apply before this date.

Our client operates a safer recruitment process and as part of this process the successful candidate will be subject to an enhanced DBS check.

They are an equal opportunities employer who values diversity and positively encourages applications of all ages from all sections of the community.

They reserve the right to close the advert early, should we appoint a suitable candidate.

FTC for 9 Months

Closing Date: 04/10/2020 Midnight

Interviews: TBC

We are recruiting a lead worker to join our Hackney Street Outreach Team. Hackney SORT forms part of a significant part of the boroughs complement of services working with rough sleepers. Hackney SORT works to rapidly reduce the number of people rough sleeping in the borough, by providing short sharp interventions to support them to access accommodation, and ensure that the appropriate support is in place to sustain this.

This role will enable you to use your existing knowledge and experience to move into a role where you will have more influence and responsibility within a team, to work towards quick outcomes, to support rough sleepers off the streets. Working in this team will give you an opportunity to make a real difference to rough sleeping.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing a caseload of rough sleepers, identifying the quickest and most appropriate route off the street, and devising a plan to achieve this, while holding a caseload of your own.

• Conducting regular outreach shifts, sometimes with volunteers.

• Focusing on improving the local response to rough sleeping by coordinating joint working and collaboration between agencies.

• Representing the team at multi-agency meetings such as Task & Targeting meetings.

• Identifying gaps in local provision and researching new pathways off of the streets for a variety of rough sleepers, including those with no recourse to public funds.

• Accurately recording all work done.

At Thames Reach we are driven and committed to helping homeless and vulnerable people to live in decent homes, build supportive relationships and lead fulfilling lives. Our vision is to end street homelessness and our aim is to achieve the highest standards and effectiveness in service delivery to vulnerable people.

With the help of our experienced senior staff and management, you will be supported and trained to use your strong communication and creative problem-solving skills, to enable you to create and deliver options for people where these may be hard to find. You will receive regular supervision from experienced staff who will both guide your work and encourage and facilitate your personal development.

To be successful you’ll need to have:

• Experience in working with rough sleepers or vulnerable adults and supporting them to access services. 

• Excellent organisation and time management skills in order to remain strongly outcome focused, with the ability to coordinate a high number of cases and complete tasks promptly and efficiently.

• Commitment to working in a challenging environment with the ability to be highly flexible throughout the working day.

• Good communication skills and confidence in public speaking when representing Thames Reach to external organisations and forming strong working relationships with partners; being able to challenge them when required.

• Strong IT skills with the ability use Outlook, online recording systems, Excel, and Word, using a tablet and a smart phone.

The role will involve office and street-based work in Hackney. While a large proportion of your time will be spent working day time shifts, Monday-Friday, the role includes some early morning and late night outreach shifts.

As well as a great working environment we also offer:

• 6.5% employer & 1.5% employee contributory pension

• Development opportunities

• 29 days annual leave plus bank holidays.

• Reimbursement of the cost of annual eye test

• Season ticket/cycle loan

• Flexible Working

• EAP services

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

For more information and to apply please visit our website.

You have experience of working with people with mental health issues and this has given good knowledge of how to provide intense crisis support for individuals who present with complex needs. All you need is the perfect environment to put your skills to great use. Welcome to Richmond Fellowship’s Safe Haven and Crisis House service as a Crisis Recovery Worker.

A pilot within our Crisis House in Derby, Safe Haven will provide community wellbeing resource where people can access support during a mental health crisis. Its aim? To prevent escalation of mental health problems and help people develop the skills they need to cope with a future crisis. Join us, and you could soon be providing a vital crisis intervention and support service for individuals who are experiencing a psychiatric and or psychosocial crisis.

Day-to-day, you’ll support individuals in crisis in a range of ways, including low mood, depressed, anxious, manic, self-harming, and experiencing suicidal thoughts. Your challenge will be to help them develop their own coping strategies to deal with their specific crisis situations. We’ll also rely on you to liaise with clinical teams to discuss referrals and clinical presentation of people using services and make referral decisions based on this. Leading on risk management and safety planning for each client will be important too, as will identifying the triggers of their crisis and implementing a brief, structured support and safety planning programme. And, when it comes to Introducing therapeutic tools and interventions tailored to their particular needs or helping them develop domestic management and finance management skills, again, we’ll count on you.

A great listener, with a flexible yet resilient approach, you have experience working with people with mental health issues and you’re used to identifying and coordinating a range of services to meet the needs of individuals requiring intense crisis support. You also have a good understanding of current mental health and/or housing legislation and a proven ability to help individuals to engage with community activities. A flair for planning and prioritising a busy workload is important too, as is a proven ability to assess and manage risk in a non-clinical way.

There will be a lot of liaison with GPs, external agencies and community teams too, plus you’ll be supporting sessional staff and volunteers, so great all-round communication skills and the ability to keep accurate records are also a must. Above all, you have what it takes to motivate, support and advocate for people who use our services, handle sensitive and complex issues well and are happy to participate in a shift rota and on call duties as required.

This is a permanent role requiring the postholder to work 37.5 hours per week.

The salary for this role is £17,004.00- £17,230.00 per annum. 

So, are you ready to take on this rewarding role that comes with some really great benefits? Apply now via our website.

Richmond Fellowship is part of Recovery Focus, a national group of charities highly experienced in providing specialist support services to individuals and families living with the effects of mental ill health, drug and alcohol use, gambling and domestic violence. We know that recovery can look and feel very different to each and every one of us. But we also know that if we provide the right support, at the right time, we can inspire recovery nationwide and that recovery is possible for everyone.

Closing Date: 2nd October 2020

Emerging Futures’ greatest resource is its people, so we also offer our employees generous annual leave, pension, and other benefits.

Emerging Futures has secured a 3-5-year contract to deliver substance misuse and housing support services across Cheshire East. Our Housing Related Support is informed by both harm reduction and ‘Housing First’ principles and is driven operationally via a culture of values based, passionate leadership.

We are extremely proud of our services and are looking to recruit passionate and enthusiastic Housing Project Workers who are able to engage and offer support to people who present with a range of complex needs, including poor health & wellbeing, low self-esteem, low levels of literacy, substance misuse issues, non-existent family relationships and who have difficulty forming and sustaining new relationships.

If you thrive on working in a challenging but rewarding environment and have a real desire to make a difference to people’s lives, this role could be for you!

This requires the ability to work on a rolling rota basis covering days, evenings and weekend across our Housing Related Support provision in Crewe or Macclesfield, Cheshire East.

Our Passion Statement

At Emerging Futures, we believe that everyone has the potential to change, grow and learn and to achieve the best they can in everything they do. We know it takes courage and commitment to change, which is why we have a passion statement, rather than a mission statement. To us, being passionate means:

• celebrating success and achievement
• creative and daring enough to innovate
• determined to persist when things get tough
• brave enough to say when something isn’t good enough
• humble enough to accept and learn from criticism
• willing to take responsibility for making things better

Above all, being passionate means having the desire to nurture, facilitate and empower others to reach out with hope to achieve their full potential.

This job is for you if…

• You are someone who is committed to our passion statement and shares in our belief in the potential of all individuals, and that empowering individuals to support each other leads to positive change; not only for themselves, but also for their communities
• You are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping and can support complex individuals from first point of contact to resettling in their own home.
• You are fun, approachable, energetic, confident, warm, empathetic, ambitious, flexible, resilient, discreet, organised, and professional.
• You are passionate about promoting recovery, tackling homelessness, and working in collaboratively with partner agencies.

What you will be doing

• Supporting tenants to maintain their tenancy by providing hands on, practical help and advice across our network of shared, supported housing.
• Working with the Local Authority and other agencies to create move-on options and improve the health and wellbeing of tenants through direct 1-1 work.
• Supporting the development of recovery and employment initiatives for tenants across Cheshire East, working with local third sector and grass roots organisations, associations, and individuals.
• Supporting residents in financial planning and providing debt counselling and support where appropriate.
• Ensuring residents understand their tenancy agreement and their rights and obligations.
• Managing accommodation for individuals, enabling residents to access pathways to meet their more immediate needs before moving on to full independence, their own tenancies and meaningful activity.

Some of the skills, knowledge and experience you will have

• A keen and comprehensive awareness of homelessness issues, interventions and understanding specific ways to support tenants with ingrained and entrenched negative behaviours.
• Excellent all-round communication skills and the ability to manage relationships.
• An ability to undertake accurate and comprehensive assessments of need, identifying levels of risk, recovery potential and establishing immediate and longer-term recovery goals.
• An ability to work effectively with groups using a structured planned approach.
• Experience of working in or with adult social care services within the charitable, third or public sector.
• A flexible attitude towards your work and a knowledge of local services and geography in Cheshire East.
• Flexibility and access to transport as you may be required to visit other sites across Cheshire East.
• We welcome applications from people with lived experience; however, all employees are required to have an enhanced DBS.

How to apply

If you are interested in applying for either of these new and exciting roles within Emerging Futures, please send your Application Form or CV along with a covering letter detailing why you are suitable for the role to Victoria Duncan on the email provided.

Social Prescribing Link Worker

Local Government Scale: SC6 SCP 18 to SCP 20 £28,752 to £29,796 pa inc London Weighting plus 6% contributory pension. 35 hours per week. Fixed term to March 2021.

Closing date: Tuesday 6th October 2020 - 5pm

Interview date: Wednesday 14th October 2020

The Age UK Camden charity group has a turnover of £3.2 million, employs 72 fte staff, engages nearly 500 volunteers and provides crucial services (many under contract to Camden Council and Camden CCG) to 9,000 older People each year. One subsidiary charity – Opening Doors London – supports LGBT older people regionally, and another – Personalisation Support in Camden empowers disabled people to make care choices. Age UK Camden is also the lead agency for Ageing Better in Camden, a Big Lottery funded initiative to reduce isolation.

The Social Prescribing Link Worker will provide personalized support to individuals in one to one and group settings to take control of their health and wellbeing and  help accessing  timely care and community support services. Will be working closely with  the Care Navigation and Social Prescribing Service and North Camden Primary Care GP Surgeries. Accurate record keeping and using IT systems is required. Through timely intervention and a holistic approach to care planning and care co-ordination GP appointments and residential placements will be reduced.

The successful candidate will come from an information/advice, social care or health background, must be computer literate, an excellent communicator and able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Experience of person-centered care and of working with volunteers is desirable. It is important that a candidate promotes a culture that values, protects and uses information for the success of the organisation and benefit of its clients/patients. The ability to work confidently and effectively in a diverse, and sometimes challenging environment is essential.

The post is based in Camden and travel round the borough is required. Age UK Camden offers a contributory pension, and season ticket or bicycle loan facility.

No CV's, no agencies please

Age UK Camden is an Equal Opportunities and London Living Wage Employer.  Registered Charity No. 293446

Housing Support Worker

Salary: £21,000 per annum

Contract/Hours: Fixed term until 31 March 2021

Full time, 35 hours per week

Closing date: 12th October 2020

Ara is looking for an experienced support worker to provide housing-related support to clients in our substance misuse accommodation. Working within the principles of Psychologically Informed Environments (PIE), you will support clients around maintaining accommodation, developing recovery capital and increasing independence.

Ara’s Housing Service is part of Bristol ROADS and Bristol Homelessness Prevention pathways.

In return we offer:

• 25 days’ leave per annum and Bank Holidays
• A 35 hour working week to promote a healthy work-life balance
• Comprehensive training
• Meaningful and fulfilling work that make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable people in our society
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working & Home working
• A commitment to employee well-being through emotional support, supervision, and reflective practice
• Free to access 365 /24 Hr Employee Assistance Program for employees and those family members at the same address

At ARA we passionately believe that people can change and recover. We provide structured treatment, counselling, housing support, education, training and employment guidance, as well as many other interventions to promote recovery and a healthier life.

ARA, registered charity number 1002224.  ARA is a values-driven, forward thinking charity, that strives for diversity and inclusion.