Support Worker
Salary: £29,427 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Hounslow
Closing date: 29/09/2024
Interview date: 11/10/2024
Whatever your experience of street homelessness and its impact on people's lives - personal or professional - when you join the Thames Reach Team as a Support Worker, we'll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion and commitment.
About us...
Thames Reach runs projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We work to prevent vulnerable people from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people find work and access training and volunteering opportunities.
Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more than 12,000 people.
Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We're listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There's no better place to develop or transfer your skills and build a fulfilling career.
About this role...
We are looking for a Support Worker to join the Hounslow Reach Floating team.
Floating Support services work with people to sustain their housing. We use a strength-based approach to work with people to identify what support they require and how we can address them together or / and in collaboration with others e.g. landlords, Department of Work and pension or mental health services.
We can support people for the duration of their tenancy, or we can provide short term interventions. We can provide resettlement support when a tenancy commences, and we can equip people with the skills to manage their home and goals independently or when they are move on ready and require minimal support.
Thames Reach welcomes applications from people with transferable skills.
You will:
- Visit Clients in their own homes and across the community, offering 1-1 tenancy-related support
- Deliver support to a caseload of clients with complex and multiple support needs
- Use a trauma-informed and co-produced support approach
- Work collaboratively with the people we support to create and review Risk Assessments and Support Plans in line with Hounslow Reach service timescales
- Work in partnership with Hounslow Reach colleagues and other services, including health, housing, social care and Employment & Skills teams, to deliver holistic, co-ordinated support to clients
- Contribute towards service evaluation and improvement through engagement with the people we support, with colleagues, and with other key stakeholders
To succeed as a Support Worker, you will have:
- Experience in mitigating and reducing risk to clients caused by health, safeguarding or welfare concerns
- Ability to be open to learning and using Trauma-Informed and Strengths-Based approaches to motivate and enable the people we support to achieve their goals and develop their resilience
- Experience in being reflective, flexible and responsive in meeting the needs of the people we support
- Ability to be confident in advocating for the people we support through joint work with partner services
- To promote, and positively represent, Thames Resch in meetings and events with external services
- Experience in organising and managing your time to meet the needs of the people we support
We are listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2023 in the UK. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:
Generous holiday allowance - 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata).
Pension - we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%.
Excellent development opportunities - career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach.
Wellbeing support - our 24/7 employee assistance programme and opportunities for TOIL.
Life assurance - four times your annual salary and critical illness cover.
Other benefits including interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans.
Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.
To apply click the apply button.
For further information please contact, Folasade Babade Lead Manager (via the apply button).
Thames Reach is committed to safeguarding. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening appropriate to the post, including, but not limited to checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Having a criminal record will not exclude you from applying but you will be asked to provide further details as most posts are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.