Support Worker - Haverhill, United Kingdom - The Riverside Group

The Riverside Group

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Haverhill, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Support Worker

Contract Type:
Permanent

Salary:
£24, pro rata) per annum (£25,813.09 is achieved after 18 months successful performance in the role)

Working Hours:
Part time 30- hours per week

Working Pattern:7 day rolling rota to include some weekends

Location:
Cangle Foyer, Haverhill, Suffolk

Why Riverside?
At Riverside, we're a housing association with a difference - enhancing the everyday for all our customers.

For 90 years, we've been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives.

We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK.

Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.

Working with us, you'll enjoy:

Competitive pay & generous pension
28 days holidays plus bank holidays (pro rata)
Flexible working options available
Investment in your learning, personal development and technology A wide range of benefits

The difference you will make as a Support Worker

You will be working from one of our supported services providing support to our customers in a variety of ways.

For example, connecting them with employability coaches and other support agencies, helping them manage their money, signing up for benefits or to move on to a more permanent home.

It will be your job to help boost their confidence and support them on their journey as they rebuild their lives.

Through all of this you will need to keep records of everything, so there is some admin to do. At times this role is tough, but most of the time it can be incredibly rewarding.

You will need to be resilient, empathetic, and able to leave your work at work and not take it home with you.

About You

We are looking for someone with:
Experience of working with vulnerable people
Experience of delivering structured support and risk management
To be a team player with a Caring and empathetic nature with a resilient, cando attitude, able to work as part of a team
An understanding of supporting vulnerable people this could include having your own lived experience of homelessness or drug or alcohol addiction. Ability to work flexible hours to meet customer and business needs, which may not include normal office hours and may include lone working

Role Profile

Supporting Customers:
We use Psychologically Informed approaches and Trauma Informed Care principles to support our customers to develop new ways of thinking and to make steps towards independence, by:

Leading on Co-producing bespoke support and move-on plans, involving key stakeholders (e.g. family/other support providers), where appropriate
Organising and carrying out regular planned reviews of support and risk plans, or following an incident/significant change in a customer's circumstances
Engaging customers to meet agreed outcomes and develop life skills
Assisting customers with daytoday support and tenancyrelated matters
Identifying and promoting opportunities for employment, education and training and supporting customers to remove barriers to accessing these opportunities
Signposting customers to appropriate external support services, including interventions such as food banks and other community resources
Supporting customers to be 'tenancy ready' to enable successful move on
Supporting customers to be financially independent through budgeting plans and maximising income
Supporting and monitoring customers' healthcare needs, ensuring appropriate contact with healthcare professionals
Empowering customers to move towards selfmanagement of their medication by following the medication procedure
Leading on support initiatives including Group Work
Ensure the safety of our customers by following local safeguarding procedures, recognizing and acting on any significant risk, and escalating appropriately
Record and update clear, factual, accurate, strengths based customer information on the local or appropriate digital platform

Service Delivery:

Facilitate the referral process into the service and assess potential new customers
Contribute to the delivery of a housing management service, including income collection and providing customers with tenancyrelated support
Work with customers to maintain a safe environment by reporting repairs and health and safety concerns
Clean and prepare rooms as appropriate
Resolve difficult and challenging situations in a sensitive and informed way, balancing the needs of the individual with responsibilities for the safety of the service
Develop and maintain local partnerships to provide a holistic range of support for customer
Carry out daytoday administration and operational duties

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