Support Worker

Global Healthcare Jobs, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Support Worker in a residential service in Hackney.

The Salary for this permanent Support Worker role is £26,037

• Support Worker
• Hackney
• £26,037 per annum

The role:

We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Support Worker.

Salary: £26,037 per annum
Location: Hackney
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Shifts: Early and Late Shifts, Rolling Rota – every other weekend. (Early shift 7:30-3:30pm, Late shift 12:30pm-8:30pm)

Elderfield Road is part of One Housing’s young person’s service, where we accommodate and support up to 60 young people age 16 to 24yrs with various complex needs including young vulnerable parents and their babies/children.

Our young people are from disadvantaged backgrounds and are on low incomes which has an impact on them financially. We aim to provide them with the skills and tools that they need to live independently, we run workshops including: cooking sessions, budgeting meetings with a financial advisor, training and employment skills sessions and groups with guest speakers on a weekly basis.  

Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensure the service is running at exceptionally high standard and meeting all the service specification.
• Undertaking key work sessions, support planning, completing risk assessments and needs reviews usually spanning 3-4 cases at a time.
• Supporting young people between the age of 16 – 24 years old
• Support to develop the necessary skills to live independently, and to access training, education, and work.
• Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.

What you will need:

• Previous experience of working with young people.
• Understanding of social media impact on young people’s lives.
• Able to manage challenging behaviour and conflict.
• Possessing a genuine passion of making a real difference in people’s lives.
• Experience and knowledge of safeguarding legislation including ability to recognize safeguarding issues.
• Knowledge of the Housing Sector and One Housing Group’s activities

The Offer:

• Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues.
• Looking forward to your big bucket list trip? You can buy or sell up to five days annual leave each year.
• Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
• Well done! With our colleague recognition programme, you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
• Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
• We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
• Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
• Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

Contact:

This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are regretfully only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobs takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).