Weekend Support Worker

Weekend Support Worker – SHAP

Are you looking for a new challenge?
Are you an enthusiastic, compassionate and dynamic individual?
Do you want a role where you are seen, heard and valued?

We are looking for a weekend Support Worker to work in our new homeless provision in Lincoln City.

Our 15-bed accommodation service will support adult men and women with histories of sleeping rough, who are experiencing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage.

We will provide longer-term housing solutions delivered via the Governments SHAP Programme to help individuals recover from rough sleeping and its associated traumas.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Provide face to face & one to one, informal support, dealing with a wide range of individual needs.
• Respect the rights and responsibilities of Service Users.
• Advise Service Users to make informed decisions and choices.
• To build skills and confidence of Service Users.
• To work alongside support planners to ensure tasks and objectives identified in support plans are achieved within agreed time scales.
• To prepare/assist Service Users in dealing with any problems arising from their accommodation including repairs, disputes debts, rent arrears etc.
• To assist with move on accommodation.
• To understand and actively promote the Organisations values (Respond/Respect/Empower).
• Identify your own development needs and actively seek opportunities to expand your knowledge, skill and experience to meet the developing needs of the service.

Why Join Us?

• Working for Framework is a great way into social care. We invest in you and encourage career progression providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
• Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
• Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
• 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays increasing with service.
• Paid DBS and Update Service.
• Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
• Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures, and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. We warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.

To apply, please complete online form to submit your CV & letter of interest for consideration.

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