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Housing Support Worker

Employer
Home Group
Location
Gloucester (Painswick Road)
Salary
£20,000 - £29,999
Closing date
20 Sep 2021

Job Details

DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Housing Support Worker

Gloucestershire, Gloucester
Full Time (37.5 hours per week), Permanent
Salary circa £18,730 pa
Plus, brilliant benefits!

Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. That’s when it hits home.

We have a fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome team. Our service supports young people aged 16 - 24 years old, who are identified as having a housing need and/or additional support needs.

This means we work with young people who may recently have left care, or those who may have been made homeless. We support our customers to develop and maintain independent living skills, so that they can successfully move on to their own independent accommodation. Our customers aren’t always the easiest to work with, they can have some very complex and challenging support needs, but this role is hugely rewarding.

Our services are spread over 5 properties in Gloucester and Cheltenham. Your role will be to offer support to customers and colleagues across all properties, so it is essential that you are a driver with access to your own vehicle for business purposes.

We help our customers to change their lives and support them to work towards achieving their aspirations. We deliver the support that has been identified, in the individual plans that have been created in partnership with our support coordinators and customers.

If you thrive on a challenge, where each day is different and where you can influence a young person to make lasting changes to their lives, then keep reading! One day you might be supporting a new customer to move into our service, and the next you may be supporting a customer to move onto independent accommodation!

You’ll work in partnership with external agencies such as social care, the probation service and other support services including substance misuse and mental health services.

Just to be clear, this is not a care role. It would be great if you have experience within the housing sector, including experience with benefit systems, young people leaving care, and housing management. However, we can nurture your talent, just let us know in your cover letter why you have a passion for working here!

About our team
You’ll be working alongside our fabulous team who are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. There are 14 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re here to support each other too! Your colleagues have a wealth of experience in supported housing and are looking forward to welcoming you to the team!

Working hours 
You’ll work on a rota basis between the hours of 7:45am - 8:15pm and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. We can be flexible around your existing commitments; however, we also need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers.

We aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you!

About you
You’re passionate and motivated to help vulnerable people make positive and lasting changes to their lives. You’ll impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds. You have some experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively.

To keep our records straight, and customers safe, it's important that you are technologically savvy (or at the very least not a technophobe!)

It would be amazing if you have worked in this type of environment before, however it’s your “can do” positive attitude and enthusiasm that are critical to make this role a success.

As you will need to travel to our different properties, you need to be able to drive, as well as having access to a car insured for business purposes. Don’t worry, we’ll pay you expenses to cover this use!

When you join, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one.

Want to know more?
If you’re not reading this advert on our careers’ pages, press the APPLY NOW button to access lots of useful stuff! You can download the Support Worker Job Description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package!

To apply
Don’t delay applying for this brilliant job, as we may close it early if we get lots of applications! Just upload your CV and if you have one, your covering letter (this will help us learn more about you!). If you need them, we’ve also got some great templates to help you.

You’re unique!

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too! You can be yourself here, because we value everything that makes you unique. So, whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

During Covid
We’re continuing to deliver services for our customers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and our brilliant colleagues are at the very heart of making that happen. We’re doing things a little differently for the moment, so to keep everyone safe, we’ll engage with you digitally where possible. Check out our awesome video to find out more on how our colleagues have felt supported here during the outbreak.

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Company

There’s never been a more exciting time to join us, as we build and sell over 10,000 new homes across the UK.  From affordable housing to our brilliant private sale brand Persona, we’re shaking up the new build market.  You’ll have the opportunity to work on everything from affordable homes to luxury apartments and build the career you want with us. 

As one of the UK’s largest developers of new homes and providers of houses for affordable rent.  We also provide long term integrated health and social care housing.  We don’t just build houses, we build homes and develop vibrant communities where people want to live. 

What keeps us busy?

We’re building homes, independence and aspirations and according to our trophy cabinet we’re pretty good at it! 

We’re winners of the 2018 UK Housing Awards Development Programme of the Year, Silver Best House at the What House Awards 2018, and RESI Landlord of the Year 2016.  We’re constantly challenging the status quo, delivering unparalleled schemes and ground-breaking products.  We pride ourselves on building happier, healthy homes, putting space and people before profits.

Oh and did we mentioned that we rank No. 27 in the UK’s Best Large Places to work, and 17th in Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2019?    

We’re growing

As we’re building new homes, we’re growing our team too so there are lots of opportunities for you to join us across the UK.  So whether you’re acquiring land, designing places, delivering schemes, selling homes or regenerating neighbourhoods.  You’ll be working alongside brilliant people to unlock bold opportunities, exciting new partnerships and collaborative projects across the UK. 

Join us

You can find out more about us and our current vacancies on our website at www.homegroup.org.uk/careers or on our Facebook and Linkedin pages.    

High-flying career, work life balance, brilliant benefits and a cherry on top!  There are so many reasons you’ll love working at Home Group.  https://youtu.be/624xZO1nXqY

 

Company info
Website
Location
2 Gosforth Park Way
Gosforth Business Park
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE12 8ET
GB

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