Floating Support Worker (Part Time)

☞ Look Ahead Housing and Care

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Richmond South East

Category: Health / Medical Care Doctors / Nurse Part-time

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Job type: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £17,420 a year

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Job reference
REQ004837
Date posted
21/06/2023
Application closing date
21/07/2023
Location
Richmond
Salary
GBP £17,420.00 Per Annum
Package
17.5 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Contractual hours
28
Basis
Part time
Job category/type
Part Time, Permanent

Floating Support Worker (Part Time)

Job description
We’re looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Floating Support Worker to join our Mental Health Service in Richmond. No personal care or experience is required, just the right values.
£17,420.00 per annum, working 28 hours per week. Benefits include 17.5 days Annual Leave, pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare and career progression.
Want to feel valued? 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.
We look to enable vulnerable people living in a variety of different tenures and a geographical area in the community to move towards greater independence by providing a flexible and individually tailored support package. Floating Support Worker will give practical support to help people maintain their tenancy, stay well, exercise choice and control in their care and lives and participate in the community. Support is also provided to develop a model of re-enablement towards self-advocacy, self-management and empowerment, incorporating the principles and practice of recovery, co-production and peer support. This role involves lone working within the community.
This role requires a valid Right to Work for the UK as Look Ahead are not a sponsoring organisation.
What you’ll do:
  • Undertake key-working responsibilities for a caseload assigned by the Team Leader / Manager
  • Undertake initial and continuous assessment of needs and potential risks and agree levels of support and actions
  • Create support/action plans for providing appropriate services based on the assessment and reflecting the services and resources available
  • Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers.
  • Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities.
  • 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
  • Proactive development of links with local statutory and voluntary organisations to provide a range of engagement opportunities for customers in the community
  • Empower customers to ensure they receive the service and benefits they are entitled to
  • Undertake all administrative work and keep accurate and comprehensive tenant/customer records to professional standards
  • Encourage and enable tenants to pay their rent and to ensure that rent accounts are managed effectively in conjunction with the Housing Management team
  • Ensure that referrals are chased proactively so that properties which can be used to house those in need are filled as efficiently as possible
  • Adhere to Look Ahead’s Policies and Procedures
  • Engage in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
  • Provide day-to-day instruction/supervision of Assistant Support Workers/domestic staff/Personal Support Assistants where appropriate
  • Undertake any other duties consistent with the grade and nature of the post as may be reasonably assigned
  • Involving customers in the design, development and delivery of the service
  • Ensuring Look Ahead Health and Safety policies are adhered to at all time and to uphold all health and safety responsibilities within relevant policies and local protocols
  • Adhering to all other Look Ahead’s policies and procedures
  • Engaging in learning and development activity to increase knowledge and skills
This is not an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that may be required from time to time and is subject to change in accordance with the needs of Look Ahead
About you:
  • Enjoys social interaction and the company of others, joins in local activities to encourage customer involvement
  • Approachable and open behaviour
  • Prefers working as part of a group or team
  • Is fundamentally calm and resilient, does not let emotion adversely affect them or obscure their judgement
  • Has a practical and logical mind and is naturally well organised
  • Thrives on change and enjoys dynamic diverse environments
  • Is confident with high levels of self-esteem
  • Is respectful, articulate and sensitive in style of communication
  • Is essentially customer–focused
  • Is motivated towards excellence and improvement of personal performance with a can do attitude
  • Ability to cope positively with challenging and diverse behaviours
What you’ll bring:
Essential:
  • Up to NVQ Level 2/3 or equivalent or experience in the social care/charity sector.
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.
Look Ahead is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk, and expects all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment.
If your application for this role is unsuccessful, but we feel that you would be suitable for another role, we may contact you to discuss alternative opportunities. If this occurs you would not need to submit another application for the alternative role.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we are able to appoint to the vacancy before the advertised closed date.
We are committed to diversity and inclusion at work and are accredited with Silver in the Inclusive Employers Standard 2021. We are a proud member of the Employers Domestic Abuse Covenant and encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants of all backgrounds.
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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