Job Description - Support Coordinator (25443)
Job Description
Description
Permanent, Part time (18.75 hpw) - working pattern will be agreed between Monday and Friday from 8.30am
Pay £24,664 per annum [pro rata] and great benefits including Health Cash Plan
Home, a place where you belong
Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Lead Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have Mental Health support needs to find and/or maintain housing, finance and social inclusion to prevent readmission. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!
Typical day as a Lead Support Worker (known by us as Coordinator)
* Creating support plans with your customers and coordinating our small team of Support Workers working to the plans.
* Helping customers who are inpatients on acute mental health wards and rehab wards in Co Durham and also who have been discharged back to their local community with homelessness, housing management, maximising income, budgeting, social activities and inclusion.
* Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
* Sign posting to other suitable services and working collaboratively.
* Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK!
You bring
* Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail.
* Experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting colleagues in working to work to the plans.
* Experience working with customers who have housing support needs.
* Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.
* The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach.
* To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage!
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review.
Our team
You’ll join Emma and our mental health hospital discharge team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of the support we provide to our customers maintain accommodation, have good financial and mental wellbeing to prevent readmission.
Job details
* Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
* You will have a working pattern between Monday and Friday from 8.30am.
* Although you’ll lone work, we do get together regularly for training and team meetings.
* Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
* You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!
What’s in it for you?
* 34 days leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, and time off for volunteering too!
* Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
* Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
* We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
* Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk
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