Wellbeing Support Worker - Ipswich, United Kingdom - Emmaus Suffolk

Description

Part Time Wellbeing Support Worker with Emmaus Suffolk.

About the role

We are focused on enriching our local community through our community hubs and supported housing offer by enabling people to live well, be happy and safe.

This key role within our established, experienced and dedicated support team will underpin the well being support provided; improving those that we directly support's skills in relation to their independence, creating stability in their lives by ensuring full access to resources and improving their mental-health as a result.

Taking a lead on referrals, building and maintaining positive relationships with all partnership agencies, whilst ensuring full compliance in relation to policy and legislation.

About You

• You will be passionate about supporting and improving other's lives every day.
• You will be experienced in providing consistent and correct advice in relation to housing, social care and independent living arrangements for vulnerable adults.
• You will be able to think proactively in a fast pace crisis intervention environment, being able to make robust decisions with strong thresholds in a calm professional manner at all times.
• You will be a creative and innovative thinker that embraces a positive team working environment.

If you would like an informal chat about the role, please contact - Emma Francis Community Manager on


Contents:

• Emmaus History
• History & Ethos
• Emmaus in the UK
• Emmaus Suffolk
• How to apply
• Deputy Community Manager JD & PS
• Emmaus Universal Manifesto

Emmaus History
The Emmaus movement was founded by a French cleric and MP, Abbé Pierre (Father Henri-Antoine Groués), in 1949. A former Capuchin monk, he trained for the priesthood and was ordained in 1938. During the Second World War he worked for the French Resistance.

He took many Jewish families and others under threat over the mountains into Switzerland and was later denounced to the Gestapo, but managed to escape and join the Free French forces in North Africa.

His war ended as a senior naval chaplain, and despite his opposition to the Gaullists, he was persuaded by General De Gaulle to stand for parliament.

It was with another former resistance worker, Lucie Coutaz, that he established the first Community.

To begin with, he simply opened his own presbytery to homeless people who he found on the streets of Paris.

He had planned his large, dilapidated house in Paris suburb of Neuilly Plaisance, to be a student hostel fostering reconciliation among Europe's post-war generation.

But already it was pointing in the direction he was to go; it was being shared with 18 homeless men on whom went his whole salary, buying war-surplus materials for them to put up temporary homes, first in his own large garden.

Gradually these Communities, whose members became known as Les Chiffoniers d'Emmaus (the rag pickers of Emmaus), took on a dynamic of their own as the 'companions' and showed they could support themselves by using skills learned whilst they had been living on the streets.

By recycling, refurbishing and re
- circulating other people's rubbish, the Communities were eventually able to make enough income to support themselves.


The Emmaus Movement in the UK
Emmaus Cambridge was the first community to open in the UK in 1991.

Since that time many more communities have opened, providing a home, meaningful voluntary work and support for formerly homeless people.

There are many other Emmaus groups throughout the UK, all at different stages of development and all with the aim of creating new communities.

Every Emmaus Community in the UK is a separate registered charity under the umbrella organisation, Emmaus UK that offers advice and support to all Emmaus projects across the UK and raises funds nationally to support the growth of the Emmaus Movement.

Emmaus Suffolk today

Emmaus Suffolk is a local independent charity which works with vulnerable, socially isolated people and those at risk of homelessness.

Our ambition is to embed local solutions for tackling entrenched homelessness, isolation and unemployment across the county. We do this by through a range of services. In our Wellbeing Hubs and

Social Enterprises; enabling and empowering people to help themselves through meaningful activity that will benefit both themselves and others.

By providing a community focused micro supported housing options to enable individuals to thrive both in the charity but importantly in their local community.

Our model is built on the principles of empowering people with life skills to become their own drivers of self esteem through unconditional high regard.

The objectives of Emmaus Suffolk are to alleviate and provide relief from poverty, hardship and distress arising therefrom.

We operate in conformance with the principles of the Emmaus Movement and we are a member of the national Emmaus federation.

Emmaus Suffolk became operational in 2015, we currently have 20 pai