About the role:
As a support worker, your primary purpose is to provide comprehensive support to residents within a supported accommodation setting. Your role encompasses a wide range of responsibilities aimed at ensuring the well-being, safety, and development of residents.
You will be responsible for implementing holistic support strategies that address the emotional, practical, and housing management needs of residents. This includes assisting with practical daily task, facilitating access to educational and employment opportunities, and maintaining a safe living environment in accordance with organisational practices.
Additionally, you will manage individual caseloads, create tailored support and safety plans, and regularly assess their effectiveness. Collaboration with residents and other professionals is essential in this process to empower people and ensure their needs are met.
Your role also involves daily shift delivery, operational functions, and liaising with stakeholders to address dynamic needs efficiently. Furthermore, you will act as an advocate for residents, collaborate with professionals from various disciplines, and facilitate a cohesive team environment through active participation and support.
Compliance with health and safety standards, accurate record-keeping, and adherence to relevant policies and procedures are integral aspects of your role. Additionally, your commitment to continuous learning, reflection, and contribution to service improvement initiatives will contribute to the overall quality of care provided to residents.
In summary, your job purpose as a support worker is to provide holistic support, ensure safety and well-being, facilitate resident development, and contribute to the effective operation and continuous improvement of supported accommodation services.
About you:
- Person-Centred Support Approach: Ability to create collaborative support plans, build rapport, and foster collaboration with residents.
- Case Management and Assessment Skills: Proficiency in managing caseloads, conducting assessments, and analysing data to identify resident needs.
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Strong communication and coordination skills to work with professionals from various disciplines.
- Health and Safety Compliance: Knowledge of regulations and protocols, ensuring adherence to health and safety standards.
- Record Keeping and Reporting: Proficient in maintaining accurate records and preparing reports while adhering to confidentiality protocols.
- Policy and Procedure Adherence: Understanding and adherence to relevant policies and procedures in supported accommodation services.
- Continuous Learning and Improvement: Commitment to ongoing training, participation in reflective practice, and contributing to service improvement initiatives.
About us:
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
We offer you more than a job; we offer you a chance to be part of a compassionate, driven team that's committed to making a real difference in people's lives. You'll have the opportunity to lead, co-create, and inspire change while enjoying a collaborative, growth-oriented environment.
Join us in creating a brighter, more hopeful future for individuals in need.
Important info:
Closing date: Sunday 23rd June June at midnight
Interview date: Interviews to be held from Wednesday 3rd July
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Salary: £31,133.37 per annum
Location: Edinburgh (flexible working considered)
Hours: Full Time (37.5)
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Monday 24th June at 11:30pm
Do you have some experience of advice work, preferably with a focus on housing issues, and a real desire to advance your specialist level knowledge? Then join Shelter Scotland as a Housing Rights Worker and you could soon be playing a vital role in helping to identify and resolve the homelessness and bad housing issues facing local communities.
About Shelter Scotland
A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet over a million people in Scotland struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, best-in-class individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
At Shelter Scotland we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly anti-racist organisation.
About the Team
Our three Communities Teams are responsible for identifying, investigating and intervening in housing and homelessness practice issues. We engage with our local communities to understand the issues people are facing and apply expert housing knowledge, insight and analysis to identify solutions to them. As well as providing advice and advocacy for individuals, we also use our insight, relationships and influence to drive systemic change, always ensuring that Lived experience is at the heart of everything we do.
About the role
As a Housing Rights Worker, you’ll be responsible for delivering high quality housing advice and advocacy in our offices, in community settings and remotely in line with local pressing issues. That will involve developing relationships within communities through a range of interactions, including delivering housing rights workshops. It will also involve engaging, enabling and empowering people with lived experience of homelessness to share their story, give their views and participate in interventions at a local and national level. Influencing a range of stakeholders and decision makers across the housing sector will be important too. And, when it comes to harnessing strong relationships with external partners or recording stories, data and evidence to develop insight that helps us drive systems change, again, well count on you.
About you
Already with some relevant experience, you’re used to working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, have great time management skills and enjoy collaborating with people from other teams and organisations. The ability to listen to, engage and empower individuals and communities will be key. So will your willingness to challenge practice and hold people to account – including influencing decision makers. Adept at presenting information and arguments in clear and compelling ways, you have a real enthusiasm for delivering workshops and presentations too. What’s more, you’re a creative problem solver with an innate ability to gather evidence and identify insights, issues and trends and are proficient using Word, Excel, email, the internet and in-house CRM systems.
How to Apply
Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit a CV and a supporting statement. Your supporting statement should include responses to the Essential ‘About you’ points below of no more than 350 words each:
1. Confident and effective communicator.
2. Ability to work collaboratively.
3. Enthusiasm for delivering workshops and presentations.
Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviour below throughout your responses:
- We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset
Any applications without a supporting statement that addresses the above points, will not be considered.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.
Shelter Scotland helps over half a million people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help.
To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter Scotland please visit our website. Apply to be part of ourteam and be the change you want to see in society.
Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies.
Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
The client requests no contact from agencies or media sales.
Associate Board Member
Nottingham
£2,964 per annum
Do you want to be a voice for change? If so, join our Board and help shape change at NCHA
We are looking for two Associate Board Members
Our client strives to be an inclusive employer and they particularly welcome applicants from ethnic minority communities, LGBTQ+ communities, women and people with disabilities to ensure they fully represent their communities.
As they also value diversity in experience and sector, they review the make-up of their Board annually to ensure they’ve got the right representation to enable them to continue to make the right decisions for customers, colleagues and the organisation as a whole.
And this is where you come in. They’re recruiting for:
Two Associate Board Member
Associate roles are designed for customers with no or limited experience of board work, in order to develop individuals in this area – although individuals should still be committed to our client's values and be willing/able to contribute effectively. For one of the Associate roles, they are looking for someone with operational or strategic experience in IT, in particular cyber security experience. This person would ideally be working toward CISSP or CISM certification – or have demonstrable experience. For the other role, your commitment and attitude are the most important attributes we are looking for.
All applicants should be enthusiastic team players who share their CLEAR values, have a passion for housing and social care, and are looking for an Associate Board Member role with a socially conscious Housing Association.
You will work as part of a team and be collectively responsible for ensuring the success of our client, and its compliance with all legal and regulatory obligations.
Finally, you will accept the legal duties, responsibilities and liabilities of Board Membership including meeting the fit and proper persons test under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
About You
You will be enthusiastic about their aims, have excellent communication skills and a clear understanding of the issues facing the Housing and Care sectors; along with a strong commitment and empathy with their values and objectives.
You will be a values-driven person with an understanding of the needs of diverse communities, including people with disabilities and those who are socially disadvantaged.
You will demonstrate sound independent judgement and have the ability to work effectively in a team.
You will have the flexibility to attend and participate in a minimum of eight daytime or evening meetings per year, and development activities such as induction, training and performance review sessions, or events, as reasonably required.
You will be a customer of our client, and, for one of the roles, you will have IT experience.
What’s in it for you?
- Training and support towards your personal development
- A chance to gain Non-Executive Board skills and experience or expand your existing skills
- Opportunities to network as you would be representing our client externally when required
- IT equipment provided
Remuneration: £2,964 per annum
If you’ve got a passion for what they do, please click APPLY now and be assured that you will be joining a successful Board and contributing to their vision of “More Homes, Great Services, Better Lives”.
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
Save the dates
By 8 July 2023: Completion of Personality Questionnaire (if shortlisted)
10 & 11 July 2024: In-person interviews at Pelham House, NG5 1AG
Please note that they are not offering visa sponsorship for these roles.