Restart Housing Support Worker
To apply for this role, you must have a full driving licence and use of a car
- Salary: £22,145 – £24,411 – depending on experience
- Hours: Full Time: 35 hours – Monday to Friday 9am – 4:30pm – some flexible work may be required
- Responsible to: Senior Support Worker
- Contract: Permanent
- Responsible for: Working as part of a team to successfully resettle ex-offenders and or the homeless into the community and provide on-going support to achieve and maintain independent living.
- Recruitment: This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS and reference checks
Restart provides supported housing, working with people leaving prison, and those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. We recognise that often our clients have experienced a lifetime of personal challenges, which has significantly contributed to them falling into crime and hardship. The purpose of this role is to facilitate support for our clients in addressing complex issues such as homelessness, offending behaviour, family and community relationships, unemployment, mental health, drug and alcohol dependency, learning and life skills, with the aim of achieving independent living.A CV is required with a covering letter on at least one page of A4, explaining your suitability and experience for the role.
Closing Date: Ongoing
Interviews / How to apply: Priority interviews will be allocated to candidates who best suit the criteria for the role. The interviews will take place at the Saltbox offices, Bemersley House, Gitana Street, Hanley, ST1 1DY. To apply for this vacancy, please send a CV and covering letter, explaining your suitability and experience for the role. For a full job description, personal specification please email Helen Platt (helenp@saltbox.org.uk).
Job requirements
- Welcoming clients into the service, including registering with doctors, completing paperwork and responding to immediate needs
- Facilitating holistic support, offering a creative and assertive approach to client engagement
- Supporting clients to articulate and achieve their goals using the Outcome Star and a person-centred flexible approachWhat we’re looking for
- The successful candidate will be passionate about facilitating improved wellbeing and outcomes for those with multiple complex needs and disadvantage Someone with a driving license, access to a vehicle and willing to visit clients in their homes
- Ideally someone who has had paid or voluntary experience supporting vulnerable people, such as people with poor mental health, substance misuse, offending behaviour and homelessness
- Someone with an up-to-date understanding of the challenges people leaving prison and those without a home face
- An ability to develop genuine connections, to motivate and inspire behavioural change
- Someone who is able to work flexibly and calmly under pressure, with a can-do attitude
- An ability to communicate clearly and sensitively with vulnerable people, their families and other organisations
- Someone with the ability to produce records, reports and letters of a professional standard
- Patience, emotional resilience and a non-judgemental attitude towards our client group
Staff Benefits:
Pay Schemes – eligible sick pay after 12 months
Enhanced paternity and Maternity
Pension Scheme
Medicash – reclaim costs of everyday healthcare
32 days annual leave including bank holiday
Learning and Development
Life Assurance two times basic salary
Salary Exchange & Cycle to Work Scheme
Counselling & Helpline
Wellbeing & Discounts
