Support Worker - Level 2

Employer - Home Group Limited
Reference number - 131168
Sector - Not for profit
Department - Care and Support
Location: - Consett, County Durham NE12 8ET Newcastle upon Tyne Gosforth 2 Gosforth Park Way
Salary - £13,648 - £18,000 per annum ,pro rata
Â£ 18000

Duration - Permanent

Hours - Part time | 22.5 hpw

Closing date - Friday, 14 March 2014

Job Description

About the role

An opportunity has arisen for a Support Worker to be based within Towers House in Consett. The service provides housing related support to 18 homeless young people aged 16-25 years and offers 12 self-contained flats along with supporting 6 clients within 2 dispersed properties in the Derwentside area. The role involves undertaking basic/routine support planning and supporting with our clients individual goals and aspirations including supported accommodation and support for other housing related needs including general support needs, help with budgeting and debt advice, benefits and welfare rights, form filling, managing and developing independent living skills, help with training, employment and education and move on options.

The service operates a shift pattern on a 4 weekly rolling rota basis including evenings and weekends.

Who we're looking for

Experience of working with young or vulnerable people and support agencies is preferable however we will give the necessary training to develop your skills both with client support, housing services and housing management. If you have a genuine passion for working with vulnerable people to make positive and lasting change we would love to hear from you.

What we'll give you

Our ‘My home package' includes competitive salaries, performance related pay, a contributory occupational money-purchase pension scheme with life assurance and long terms disability insurance, 25 days paid holiday a year - rising by 1 day per year up to 30 days, with the ability to purchase an extra 5 days, salary sacrifice schemes including cycle and car.

Contact information

About us

Home Group, a social enterprise and a charity with a turnover of over £300m, is one of the UK’s largest providers of high quality housing and supported housing services and products. Founded in the North East by an Act of Parliament in the 1930’s, our mission is:

“to help our customers and clients to open doors to new opportunities and healthy lives”.

Home’s role is to provide general needs housing and supported housing services targeted towards helping some of society’s most vulnerable people take control of their own lives:

Home houses over 120,000 people a year in 55,000 homes in 200 local authority areas in England, Scotland and Wales.
Each year this includes working with almost 30,000 vulnerable people through 500+ supported housing, justice and health services.

Equal Opportunities

We are a leading provider and manager of housing, care and support for people in need. As such, we recognise and value the benefits and enhancements which equality and diversity make in the management of our business and in the delivery of our services.

We promote equality and diversity throughout the organisation through the application of employment policies which are aimed at treating all employees and job applicants fairly and equitably, irrespective of characteristics such as age, beliefs, culture, disability, education, employment status, ethnicity, gender, learning difficulties, marital status, mental health, nationality, offending history, physical health, pregnancy, race, religion, salary, sexuality, social class or transgender identity.

We monitor all stages of our recruitment process and we are working towards ensuring that the composition of our workforce broadly reflects the communities in which we work.

We will expect and support staff to embrace our Equality and Diversity Policy to encourage a culture of diversity in our organisation.

To apply

To ensure consistency of the information we receive, we have an online application form that you will need to complete to apply for this role.

We are only able to send you the application form in another format, if you have a registered disability and are therefore unable to complete an online application form. Please email recruitment@homegroup.org.uk advising of your disability and we'll be happy to send you this in another format.

Home Group Limited (Charitable I & P Society No. 22981R)