This is a part-time role (25 hrs a week)

The Lambeth Advance Care Project (LACP) is a group of local community organisations (Age UK Lambeth, Carers Hub Lambeth, St Christophers Hospice, Stockwell Partnership, Ask Erwin, Healthwatch Lambeth, Lambeth Learning Disability Forum) supported by a national charity, Compassion in Dying. We raise awareness and encourage people in Lambeth to plan and record future treatment and care wishes. The LACP offers specialist support for local people to create a Lasting Power Of Attorney (Health and Welfare) and support with Advance Care Planning tools: Advance Statements and Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment. 

Advance Care Planning tools are the three main ways we can record our wishes for treatment and care if we cannot make a decision for ourselves or tell people what we want

What you will be doing

Plan, promote and deliver advance care planning events and awareness sessions in Lambeth. Be creative in methods to attract people into sessions e.g. wills & forward planning workshops. And also;

1. Support people to complete Advance Care Plans (ACP) and where possible link people to our ACP volunteers.

2.  Provide person-centred support allowing individuals the time and space to discuss “what matters most to me” is where they are most comfortable. In their home, our office or just a place of their choice.

3. Support people to complete Advance Care Plans and also where possible to link people to our ACP support volunteers to help them complete Advance Care plans

4. Liaise with referrers to confirm support and outcomes. Referrals are received from a variety of agencies such as GPs, Living Well Network, Adult Social Care and voluntary groups.

5.  Work with Age UK Lambeth’s  MYcommunity, MySocial and other services and organisations across the borough to promote the events and to encourage referrals. (For more information, please see Job description attached) 

What you’ll benefit from

• Brixton based - close to good transport and vibrant town centre

• Generous pension provision - 7% employer contribution

• 26 days holiday a year rising to 31 days after 5 years. (holiday will be pro-rated in relation to the contract)

• A great staff team 

How to apply

Please follow the instructions below. 

You will be required to upload your CV and a letter of application answering the following 4 questions (in no more than 250 words per question). 

1. A major part of the role will be attending Community events. How do you think you could attract people to stop at your info stall and speak to you? 

2. You may be asked to give a presentation either at an event in person or to a virtual group. Would you be comfortable doing this and have you given a presentation before?

3. Many people find it uncomfortable speaking about dying and planning for it. How would you approach this topic when speaking to Individuals.

4. How would you go about building community links in the borough?

Closing date: 9th August

Interview date: 11th August

Recruiting for 3 Support Workers to join our Young People and Care Leavers in Ealing!

GBP 22,568 working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Minster House is a specialist semi-independent service for young people in and leaving care aged 16-21. The service provides a high level of support to young people with a variety of complex needs. The service is staffed 24/7 by a team of enthusiastic and caring support workers. The service aims to support young people to manage and address their various support needs and risks whilst also supporting young people to learn basic life skills and be ready to live independently.

We are currently looking for 1 Support Worker at Minster House and 2 Support Workers at Horn Lane.

Job Overview:
Support Workers to provide support to customers who are in the care sector and are in the process of gaining independent skills to be able to move on and live independently.

To help the customers to develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs of the customers of the service.

Support Workers 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.

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
- Day to day instruction/ supervision of Assistant Support Workers/domestic staff/ Personal Support Assistants where appropriate
- Undertaking any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager

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:
Essential:
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience in the social care/charity sector

Desirable:
- Experience working with Care Leavers

For the full job description, please visit the Look Ahead website.

Support Workers – Learning Disability and Autism
Rate: £10.85 per hour
Hours: Full-time and part-time
Location: South West London

Generate is a vibrant charity dedicated to providing person centred support to people with learning disabilities and autism.

We are looking for full and part-time Support Workers with a positive ‘can-do’ attitude to support people to achieve their life goals such as employment, education and housing, to connect to and engage with their community and to maintain good health and wellbeing.

The successful candidate will be Adventurous – Friendly – Encouraging - Supportive of relationships - Respectful and Resourceful.

You will be required to work flexibly and will be expected to be available evenings, weekends and public holidays.

The closing date for applications is 27th August 2021.
Interviews days TBC

TO APPLY AND FOR MORE INFORMATION

Please click ‘Apply’ to be redirected to our website, where you can view the full Job Description and full details on how to complete your application.
Please note, you are not applying at this stage.

All applicants are required to complete an enhanced DBS check and provide 2 references.

Generate is committed to equality and valuing diversity.

No agencies please.

The Charity

Equal People mencap (Registered Charity No 298609) provides person-centred support to vulnerable adults and children across West and Central London, particularly those with learning disabilities, autism and complex needs. We work across Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and other local boroughs.

Our 60 staff and volunteers provide a Floating Support service offering 1:1 independent living, community and personal care support funded through personal budgets. Our Resource Centre in Ladbroke Grove hosts a daily Drop-In and a weekly programme of supported activities and training programmes. We act as managing agents for 3 Housing Associations, providing Housing support and collecting rent.

The Role

You will be part of the Floating Support team offering person-centred support to adults and children , supporting them to put their choices ionto action,

Key responsibilities include:
To provide respectful, person-centred support to adults and children with, autism, learning disabilities, complex needs and/or experiencing mental health issues.
To represent and promote Equal People mencap’s inclusive ethos and values in all of your work and interactions with others.
To work to support individuals towards their desired outcomes as part of a team guided by shared, agreed support plans and risk assessments.
To enable each individual to participate as fully as they wish in community life
To support individuals to:
• communicate, plan and action their wishes, aims and dreams
• build and maintain friendships and relationships
• be treated with dignity and respect
• increase self-confidence and independence
• participate in and contribute to the community in a valued and meaningful way
• have access to health and social care services and activities and healthy living options
• be aware of risk and consequence
• be safe from abuse.

Please see the attached job description.

Please provide a CV via this site.

Closing Date 5th August 2021 - Interviews - ongoing.

Recruiting for a Support Worker to join our Mental Health Service in Tabard Court!

GBP 22,360 per annum, working 40 hours per week full time, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Job Overview:

Support workers at Tabard Court will work within a multi disciplinary team, providing support to customers with a range of mental health needs and who have had contact with the Criminal Justice System. This will include support with emotional, social, physical & domestic needs. You will be skilled in engaging both customers and stakeholders and have a good understanding of the needs and diversity of this client group. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work in a therapeutic environment that at times can be challenging and provide quality, evidence based care and risk management strategies. You will be highly motivated and committed to continuous professional development.
You will work flexibly to respond to emerging needs and effectively address the needs of the customer group. This role will include shift working including : weekends, bank holidays, late shifts and regular sleep in duties.

Key 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 customers have not yet developed the skills, to ensure they 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 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 & Housing 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 digital and physical 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

Person Specification:

- Exudes a warm friendly presence 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
- Flexible
- Open to feedback and self development
- Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
- 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 motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

- NVQ Level 2 or equivalent or experience within charity/social care sector

Desirable:

- Relevant specialism experience

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.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

We are now reviewing a first pool of applications. We are likely to hire someone from that group, and won't be reviewing any new applications unless necessary. If you do send an application from 26th July onwards, and do not hear from us within 3 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful. As a small charity, we don't have the resources to reply to all candidates. 

ABOUT US 

Likewise is an innovative social care and mental health charity working at the heart of the Camden community to support individuals experiencing marginalisation and social exclusion. 

At Likewise our culture is all about being human together. More human organisations do more human work. We put a lot into creating authentic relationships, work hard to support each other’s sense of belonging and love learning together through the work we do. 

Our three areas of work are:

• Community – building safe spaces for people to be themselves, and feel a sense of belonging, connectedness and acceptance;

• 1-to-1 Support – providing flexible, person-centred support to meet the complexity a person experiences in their day-to-day life, whether at home or out in the community;

• Shared Learning – facilitating experiential learning and formal training opportunities that support personal wellbeing and skills development.

CONTEXT

The Support Worker will help the delivery of our Support & Connect service, which is run as a partnership between Mind in Camden and Likewise. It been designed to provide person-centred, flexible community support for people living with mental illness. Each person will be assigned a Support & Connect Worker, who will build a relationship with them to understand together how their wellbeing can be supported and sustained. This might include linking them to community opportunities, working on benefits issues, finding debt support, navigating housing challenges, building relationships and improving communication with their clinical teams, or linking them in with volunteers. Whatever they do, it will be tailored to each individual and be flexible with them as their needs change over time.

Workers will be expected to make autonomous decisions based on the realities of their clients’ experience, demonstrating a flexible and creative attitude to support work whilst continually reflecting on and learning from successes and mistakes. They will be supported in this by regular supervisions, reflective spaces, learning spaces, and team meetings, in which their contribution is vital.

Client work will be a mix of face-to-face meetings, phone calls, and video calls, based on client preference and local pandemic restrictions. Whilst most administrative duties will be performed remotely whilst the pandemic continues, this may change. 

Strategic decisions on the service will be heavily influenced by client and worker experiences - as such, key workers will be expected to carry out evaluative tasks and reflect and comment on how the service could improve. 

(See more information about the service in the attached description). 

KEY TASKS

1-to-1 Support Work 

• Managing a caseload of up to 25 active clients and 20 ‘on pause’ clients living with mental illness 

• Building understanding of individuals needs and personalities in order to provide appropriate support 

• Providing emotional and practical support based on a human-to-human, accepting support relationship 

• Linking clients in with relevant community resources and opportunities 

• Building relationships with local community groups to increase client access and supporting them to feel confident working with people living with mental ill health 

• Building relationships and communicating with clients’ clinical teams, including GPs, care coordinators and mental health social workers

• Making frontline decisions based on client realities

• Move clients into differing kinds and intensities of support based on their need and capacity 

• Following safeguarding practices 

Office work 

• Keeping care notes updated

• Organising their own diary 

• Communicating clearly and quickly with relevant members of local support team 

• Participating and contributing to Likewise learning and reflective spaces 

• Feeding back and sharing insight and learning in order to improve the service

• Carrying out evaluative tasks such as client and key worker questionnaires 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re not looking for any specific qualifications or similar experience as prerequisites for applying. We recruit based on openness to learning, alignment with our values and best fit for the role.

We’re looking for individuals who are: 

• open–minded, willing and excited to learn 

• passionate about people and personal development 

• excellent communicators – both orally and in written work 

• team players with a strong work ethic 

KEY DETAILS 

• Full-time, or part-time (minimum 4 days per week)

• Temporary position, until end of October 2021

• Flexible working, structure your time in a way that works for you, your role and the team. 

• Equivalent to 28 days annual leave + bank holidays

• 8% employer’s pension contribution 

• With Covid restrictions lifting, we expect our staff will move to a mixture of remote and office-based work (which will be at our Likewise Hub in Swiss Cottage).

 
BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK, IT’S ALL WELCOME

We’re passionate about creating a workplace that promotes and values diversity, inclusion and belonging. We believe that organisations that are diverse are vital to our communities. 

But - we also know that we're not there yet, and this is particularly true of the diversity in ethnicity, age and physical health represented amongst our current staff. While we're not where we want to be, we're fully committed to learning, holding ourselves accountable and having the hard conversations needed on our journey towards making our vision a reality.

HOW TO APPLY

We will meet with candidates as applications come in and are looking to appoint someone as soon as possible. 

Please send us your CV and a tailored letter, stating when you're available to start and whether you're looking to do 4 or 5 days per week. Please do not send a standard cover letter. 

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. 

Are you highly motivated and looking for a challenge?

Do you want to end homelessness and make a positive difference to people's lives?

Thames Reach are 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 delivery of our services.

We are looking for an enthusiastic Support Worker to join the team at Thames Reach Greenwich to work with people with history of offending, and may also have mental health or substance misuse issues.

The focus of your work will be to support and encourage residents to become more independent, maximise income, reduce arrears and increase move on to step down and out of the housing pathway to more independent accomodation. You will ensure the environment is safe, healthy, and reflective of our ethos and supports our client’s aims.

This role would suit:

• People with an understanding of how to support people to manage and sustain their licences and engage positively with CMHT, Probation and drug services (local community).
• People with experience of supporting and motivating people to engage with health services, employment, training and education.
• People who are able to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationship with other agencies such as referral agencies, benefit services.
• People who have a good understanding of how to work as team, and share their knowledge and good practice with their colleagues, and volunteers
• Those with strong administration experience.

You’ll be:

- Organised and efficient in your work

- Excellent at communicating and problem solving

- Confident in your ability to support clients

- Competent at using a computer and a range of software packages

- Committed to developing your knowledge and skills

- Responsive and flexible to the needs of the team and the clients

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

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.

Recruiting for a Support Worker to join our Homelessness and Complex Needs in Lambeth!

GBP 22,568 working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

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 service provides specialist support to our customers in a range of areas including: borderline mental health issues, histories of complex offending and anti social behaviours, substance misuse issues, survivors of domestic violence and rough sleepers.

We work with some of the most complex and challenging people in the UK and every working day presents interesting - and unusual - incidents, situations and activities. Many of our customers will have been through the cycle of homelessness several times before, so a successful candidate will require an unquenchable can-do attitude and a healthy capacity for patience.

Given the complex traumas experienced by our customers we are ideally looking for emotionally resilient candidates that have some experience in dealing with complex and challenging behaviours and/or are interested in developing a therapeutic and psychologically informed approach and environment.

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'
- 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 organizations 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
- 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
- Day to day instruction/ supervision of Assistant Support Workers/ domestic staff/ Personal Support Assistants where appropriate
- 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:

- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
- Exudes a warm friendly presence 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
- 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 motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour

Skills, Knowledge and Experience:
Essential:

- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience in the social care/charity sector
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Waking Night Children’s Residential Worker – Residential Home – Ealing

Young People 12 - 17 years old

40 hours per week including weekends and bank holidays

Waking Night Shifts: 9pm- 8am or 9:30pm- 8:30am

We have presently a fantastic opportunity to join one of our Residential Homes located in Ealing, and make a real difference to our Young People’s live.

About Us

Our vision is for every child and young person to be safe, loved and happy, to achieve their potential and have a bright future.

St Christopher's is a leading charity for children and young people and we are proud of our history for providing fostering, children's homes and a range of innovative leaving care services across the UK & Isle of Man.  We have a passionate commitment to our young people, placing them at the centre of everything we do.  We provide positive life experiences for young people who are unable to sustain a placement in their parental or foster home.

We are an equal opportunity employer and keen to develop an inclusive workforce were people feel they belong.  We hope to attract applications from under- represented groups including people from different cultures, nationalities, socio economic backgrounds, ages, disabilities, religion, faith, sex, orientation, child care responsibilities and with gender diverse identities.

St Christopher’s Academy

At St Christopher`s we can provide more than just a care job. We can offer you a career where you can develop your skills and knowledge while making a difference to young people’s lives.

When you join St Christopher’s, we will set you up in your career with a tailored development plan. Whether you want to move across to a different service, become a Manager or just explore further your current role, we will support you to map out your career trajectory and help you achieve your professional ambitions. 

We are proud that 84% of all our Team Leaders, Deputies and Managers are internal promotions. 

About the Role

As Support Worker at St Christopher’s you will travel with our young people on their life journey and have the opportunity to make an impact on their lives. You will be coaching on life skills, joining in with activities, helping with homework and being a positive role model.

We aim to improve young people’s self-esteem so they believe in themselves and feel confident enough to reach for their dreams.

Applicants should have

• Genuine commitment to working and supporting Young People to achieve their full potential.
• Ability to build genuine and trusting relationships with young people.
• Resilience to cope with challenging behaviour and circumstances.
• Ability to motivate young people and encourage their independence.
• High personal and professional standards.
• Flexibility to undertake shift working including weekends and bank holidays, and occasional sleep-ins.

What you should expect from us

• Salary: £22,630 rising to £23,582, upon successful completion of probationary period and mandatory training.
• Competitive pay and reward structure offering salary progression based on performance.
• Tailored career development plan through our “St Christopher’s Academy”.
• A friendly working environment, a fun, open and honest culture.
• 25 days holiday rising to 27 days after 3 years’ service, plus Bank Holidays, pro-rata.
• Industry Leading training programme including access to level 3 qualifications, children’s right and participation, CSE, empowerment, mental health and Social Pedagogy,
• Contributory pension scheme, Enhanced Maternity and Company Sick Scheme.
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme, offering counselling, financial advice and legal support.
• Interest-free season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme.
• Discount shopping scheme at hundreds of retailers across the UK.
• Discretionary Funded Training Programs.

Recruitment Process

At St Christopher’s we are committed to the safeguarding of all children and young people in our care. During the recruitment process you will be expected to complete an online application form to ensure we capture essential information to meet legislation, best practice and vetting requirements.

Applicants will ideally already be on the DBS Update Service; if this is not the case St Christopher's will carry out a DBS (police) check prior to starting.

Your online application must include a supporting statement addressing the criteria stated in the Person Specification.

St Christopher’s Fellowship has a minimum age requirement of 21 for roles working directly with children and young people in our residential and semi-independent Homes.

Recruiting for 3 Support Workers to join our Young People and Care Leavers in Ealing!

GBP 22,568 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Minster House is a specialist semi-independent service for young people in and leaving care aged 16-21. The service provides a high level of support to young people with a variety of complex needs. The service is staffed 24/7 by a team of enthusiastic and caring support workers. The service aims to support young people to manage and address their various support needs and risks whilst also supporting young people to learn basic life skills and be ready to live independently.

Job Overview:

Support Workers to provide support to customers who are in the care sector and are in the process of gaining independent skills to be able to move on and live independently.

To help the customers to develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs of the customers of the service.

Support Workers 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.

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
- Day to day instruction/ supervision of Assistant Support Workers/domestic staff/ Personal Support Assistants where appropriate
- 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:
- 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:
Essential:
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent experience in the social care/charity sector

Desirable:
- Experience working with Care Leavers

For the full job descriptiom, please visit the Look Ahead website.

Will you join our award-winning and thriving team of public lawyers?

Public Law Project (PLP) is searching for a qualified lawyer to join our award-winning casework team and coordinate the innovative public law support hub. The hub focuses on the EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) and welfare rights. Knowledge and experience of one or both of these areas is desirable. Most importantly, we want a capable and ambitious public lawyer who enjoys working collaboratively and is excited about using the law creatively. In addition to working on cases through the hub, we envisage that in time the successful candidate will have an opportunity to work on the full range of PLP’s cases.

A qualified solicitor with between one and five years’ experience would be a particularly good fit in our team at the moment though we would welcome applications from anyone who meets the job description. It is an opportunity for a lawyer with good networking skills and solid experience of running judicial reviews. The candidate must have a proven ability to develop cases and ideas independently – either in legal aid or the corporate sector.

PLP is a growing and lawyer-led access to justice charity. Our vision is a world in which individual rights are respected and public bodies act fairly and lawfully. We act directly for individuals, and are regularly instructed by law firms, lawyers’ groups, such as the Law Centres Network, NGOs and other public interest organisations. We work consistently at the leading edge of access to justice issues and there is always lots of scope for development. Recent high-profile cases have engaged with diverse issues such as Home Office removals policy, funding for advice services and legal aid, and the prorogation of Parliament.

PLP funding comes from a range of sources, including legal aid and charitable grants. Our mixed funding model gives the organisation financial security and stability and means that our lawyers are able to work creatively to achievable income targets.

PLP is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident Employer. We value diversity, we have a diverse team particularly among women and the LGBT+ community, and we acknowledge that we currently have an underrepresentation from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people compared to our beneficiaries and within the London-charity sector. We are continuously taking actions to improve the diversity of our team. We welcome all applicants and are actively encouraging applicants particularly from Black, Asian and minority ethnic people and disabled people.

Recruiting a Support Worker to join our Homelessness service in Southwark!

£22,568 per annum, 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Manor Place Hostel and David Barker House, provide supported housing for individuals with a history of homelessness and complex needs. This vary from ex-offending, substance misuse, mental health, domestic violence, etc. Manor place Hostel is a service which accommodates 34 woman with various complex needs including primarily mental health, substance misuse and domestic violence. David Baker House accommodates 45 males with various complex needs of support including mainly ex offending, mental health and substance misuse. Both services provide 24/7 support helping customers with their day to day life's skills and supporting them towards independent living. Many of our customers come from a background of homelessness making their trust in the people and professionals very low. The majority of our customers have complex needs and a dual-diagnosis, meaning that they are struggling with more than one of the criteria previously mentioned. The two hostels are based near Southwark and Kennington Station with a workable distance between both.

Job Overview:

To enable and support vulnerable individuals with complex needs to address this while maintaining their tenancy with the long term goal of living in an independent setting by providing flexible and individually tailored support package. Working with excluded and hard to reach customers can be challenging however, with intensive support this challenge can be broken. You will need to be able to engage our customers in a non-judgmental way. You will also be responsible for dealing with emergencies that may arise during your shift whilst remaining calm and using initiative then writing up incident reports amongst other administrative tasks.

As a support worker, you will be working as part of a team as well as with external agencies such as London Probation Service, local substance misuse services, Mental health teams, and police amongst others. Sometimes customers may not be linked in with agencies when they enter the service, as a support worker it is part of your role to ensure they are receiving the correct support from agencies required. Ideally, you will have experience of working with vulnerable people or an understanding of the needs of homelessness. You will be required to support customers with managing their arrears; ensuring housing benefit is applied for as well as monitoring payments and acting appropriately if payments are suspended in order to ensure customer does not fall into any arrears.

You will be responsible for supporting the working shift pattern of the service which is a five week rolling rota which consists of working some weekends as well as long days.

Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake key-working responsibilities for a caseload assigned by the Team Leader/ Manager
- Undertake initial and continuous assessment of needs and potential risks and 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
- 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
- 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
- Ensure that referrals are chased proactively so that properties which can be used to house those in need are filled as efficiently as possible
- Adhere to Look Ahead's Policies and Procedures
- Engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
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:
- 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
Essential:
- Up to NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent or experience in the social care/charity sector

Desirable:
- Experience working in homelessness

Interviews taking place 14th August 2021.

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Recruiting for a Support Worker to join our Young People and Care Leavers in Milton Keynes!

GBP 20,000 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus 25 days Annual Leave, Pension schemes, Staff discounts, healthcare and more.

Milton Keynes Young Peoples Service is for people aged 16 - 21 with the capacity to support 58 customers at any one time. The service provides a high level of support to young people with a variety of complex support needs and backgrounds including being care leavers, looked after children, unaccompanied asylum seeking children's as well as those that have had previous placement or family breakdowns. The service is compiled of 5 properties, the largest capacity at one site being 16 units.

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.

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 organizations 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
- Day to day instruction/ supervision of Assistant Support Workers/ domestic staff/ Personal Support Assistants where appropriate
- 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:

- Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
- Exudes a warm friendly presence 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
- 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 motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
- Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour

Essential:

- 1-year experience with Young people aged 16+

If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.

We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with the Inclusive Employers Standard 2020. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.