Peripatetic Support Worker - Kent, United Kingdom - Look Ahead Housing and Care

Look Ahead Housing and Care
Look Ahead Housing and Care
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Kent, United Kingdom

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Job profile:


  • The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
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Job details:
Job details:

Job reference

  • REQ00453
  • Date posted
  • 09/02/202 Application closing date
  • 16/04/202 Location
  • Kent
  • Salary
- £24,034.00 per annum

  • Package
  • 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
  • Contractual hours
  • 40
  • Basis
  • Full time
  • Job category/type
  • Fixed Term Contract, Full Time
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Peripatetic Support Worker:

Job description
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Peripatetic Support Worker-(FTC Until March 2024)


We're looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Peripatetic Support Worker to join our Homelessness service in Tunbridge Wells/ Gravesend.


£24,034.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week. Benefits include 25 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career
progression.
Want to feel in control of your career? You'll feel at home here. Making you feel at home here means helping you thrive in every way. That's why we offer a wide range of benefits, award-winning Learning & Development and a culture that welcomes all. These aren't token gestures - we've thought long and hard about how best to support our team.

After all, our people are doing something amazing:
helping to transform lives every day.


Peripatetic Support Workers work within Look Ahead are required to be an experienced Peripatetic Support Workers who provides flexible seamless cover for gaps in our Support Worker provision across our West and North Kent homelessness services.

Peripatetic Support Workers will provide full support to customers to help them develop the life skills they require to meet the assessed needs of those customers.

In some services, this will include providing physical, domestic, emotional, and social care.

You 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.


  • This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation._

What you'll do:


  • 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 prompting around personal and physical care as appropriate.
  • Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers and creating a positive atmosphere.
  • 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. This may include cooking basic meals for customers.
  • Support planning and risk management of customers.
  • Ensuring housing management activities are effectively carried out e.g. ensuring housing benefit is applied for promptly, ensuring void rooms are able to be re let quickly etc.
  • Ensuring customer information is updated accurately and in a timely way on Look Aheads IT systems.
  • Carry out security duties to ensure the safety of the customers and premises.

What you'll bring:


  • Easily able to quickly understand the requirements of each service to deliver effective Support Worker cover.
  • Flexible in approach and happy to cover Support Worker role and hours at any Service as needed.
  • Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement.
  • Exudes a warm friendly presence and open behaviour.
  • Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviour.
  • Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised.
  • Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments.
  • Is confident and resilient with high levels of selfesteem.

Essential:


  • NVQ Level 2 or equivalent or experience within charity/social care sector.
  • Relevant previous experience as a Support Worker.
  • Good level of written and spoken English.
  • Car Driver

Desirable:


  • Relevant specialism experience.

About us**:

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year.

We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.


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