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Support Worker Tyneside Foyer – Newcastle upon Tyne Permanent – Part Time (20 Hours per week) Circa £23,464 per annum plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan!Home, a place where you belongWant to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex needs to develop their skills to live more independently. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!Typical day as our Support Worker

  • Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
  • You’ll be working with vulnerable young people aged 16-25 experiencing homelessness, mental health, exploitation or substance abuse.
  • Helping customers with daily living activities such as applying for housing, maximising income, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation.
  • Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
  • Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK!You bring

  • Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail
  • Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children
  • The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
  • Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to?external?candidates for this role.?This remains under regular review Our team Join our diverse and supportive team at Tyneside Foyer! Managed by Senior Client Service Manager Emma, who began as a Support Worker in 2017, the team includes experienced Client Service Managers Scott and Kayleigh. You’ll also get help from our Support Coordinators and Housing Concierges in your daily tasks. Job detailsYou’ll work a four-week rolling rota, a mixture of weekdays and weekends.Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean…