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: Friday 29th November (noon)
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
Maintenance Assistant
To apply for this role, you must have a full driving licence and you must be over the age of 21 to drive Saltbox vans / vehicles
- Salary: £20,820 – Pro Rata – £23,000 – Depending on Experience & Skills
- Hours: 35 hours – Monday to Friday – 9am – 4:30pm – some flexible working may be required
- Based at: Unit 708, Centre 500, Lowfield Drive, ST5 0UU – other Saltbox locations as required
- Responsible to: Property Services Manager
- Contract: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract – with potential extension to permanent depending on funding
- Responsible for: Minor repairs and maintenance of Saltbox properties
- Recruitment: This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS, reference checks and six-month probationary review
- Full Job description – here
Purpose of the role
- To deliver day-to-day maintenance and repairs to Saltbox properties ensuring high standards of maintenance.
- To work alongside, domestic and support worker teams, working within Health and Safety procedures at all times
Summary of Main Duties
- To carry out agreed minor repairs, decorating, cleaning, rubbish disposal all within Saltbox properties to maintain a high-quality standard
- To assist with furniture deliveries and installations in Saltbox properties
- Deal effectively and safely with repairs and maintenance ensuring timely responses are made and properties are safely and securely maintained
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
Closing Date: 12.00 noon Friday 15 November 2024
Interviews:
Priority interviews will be allocated to candidates who best suit the criteria for the role. The interviews will take place at, the Maintenance Warehouse, Unit 708, Lowfield Drive, Centre 500, ST5 0UU.
To apply for this vacancy, please send a CV and covering letter, to Helen Platt, HR Manager Helen Platt (helenp@saltbox.org.uk)
Restart – Dual Diagnosis with Neurodiversity
To apply for this role, you must have a full driving licence and use of a car
- Salary: £25,441
- Hours: Full Time: 35 hours – Monday to Friday 9am – 4:30pm – some flexible work may be required
- Responsible to: Dual Diagnosis Co-ordinator
- Contract: 4 Year Fixed Term – Subject to six-month probationary review
- Recruitment: This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS and reference checks
- Full Job description – here
Purpose of the role:
- To work towards the successful re-settlement of individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, particularly those with a history of offending, resulting in a reduction in offending behaviour, homelessness and associated support needs and to prepare residents and assist them towards independent living.
- To work with residents to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer-support and self-determination.
- To act as Dual Diagnosis Practitioner for an identified group of residents within Restart who have co-existing mental health and substance misuse, and either diagnosed or suspected neurodivergence from point of entry into service, or from where relevant support needs present, and through their treatment/recovery journey to have better access to treatment and support.
Summary of duties:
- To liaise with other professionals regarding residents’ progress and outcomes, enabling people to manage their mental ill-health better and address their substance misuse issues and manage any issues connected with their diagnosed or suspected neurodivergence.
- To participate in MDTs, Dual Diagnosis forums and Complex Case Reviews as required.
- To work flexibly to meet the needs of the resident group.
- To provide general information and advice to residents with problematic mental health and substance misuse issues, and or any further issues relating to either diagnosed or suspected neurodivergence.
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
Closing Date: 12.00 Noon – Friday 8 November 2024
Interviews:
Interviews will take place one Tuesday 19 November and Tuesday 26 November. The interviews will takeplace 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)
Restart – Dual Diagnosis Practitioner
To apply for this role, you must have a full driving licence and use of a car
- Salary: £25,441
- Hours: Full Time: 35 hours – Monday to Friday 9am – 4:30pm – some flexible work may berequired
- Responsible to: Dual Diagnosis Co-ordinator
- Contract: 4 Year Fixed Term – Subject to six-month probationary review
- Recruitment: This post is subject to a satisfactory DBS and reference checks
- Full Job description – here
Purpose of the role:
- To work towards the successful re-settlement of individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, particularly those with a history of offending, resulting in a reduction in offending behaviour, homelessness and associated support needs and to prepare residents and assist them towards independent living.
- To work with residents to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer-support and self-determination.
- To act as Dual Diagnosis Practitioner for an identified group of residents within Restart who have co-existing mental health and substance misuse, from point of entry into service, or from where relevant support needs present, and through their treatment/recovery journey to have better access to treatment and support.
Summary of duties:
- To liaise with other professionals regarding residents’ progress and outcomes, enabling people to manage their mental ill-health better and address their substance misuse issues.
- To participate in MDTs, Dual Diagnosis forums and Complex Case Reviews as required.
- To work flexibly to meet the needs of the resident group.
- To provide general information and advice to residents with problematic mental health and substance misuse issues.
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
Closing Date: 12.00 Noon – Friday 8 November 2024
Interviews:
Interviews will take place one Tuesday 19 November and Tuesday 26 November. 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)
