Support Worker
Job type - Permanent/Full-time
Salary - £26,699.72 per annum
Hours - 35 (plus 5 hours paid lunch breaks)
Location - Basildon (Wimborne)
2 x Posts
Nacro is pleased to introduce an exciting new support provision called Essex NEST (Nacro Education Support and Transition) focused on providing support to young people.
Would you like to be part of a new and growing team of Support Workers working with Young People?
You will have your own caseload of young people, maintaining oversight of their progress from the point of service entry through to service exit and independence.
It’s a flexible model in which we aim to provide the ‘right help at the right time’, underpinned by a trauma-informed approach. Our mantra is “No decision about you without you!”
We are currently recruiting for staff to join our exciting new service where you will be working with:
1. Young people aged 16 and 17 years old at risk of homelessness.
2. Care Leavers aged 18-21.
3. Vulnerable young parents up to the age of 21.
4. Other vulnerable 18–21-year-olds.
Who are we looking for?
A support worker to provide housing-related support to vulnerable individuals together with providing housing and property management with the aim of achieving a successful move-on and other measurable outcomes including supporting service users to achieve independence.
Duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
1. Engage with actual and potential referral agencies including local authority central access point/gateway services, statutory and voluntary sector agencies to generate referrals for the service as required.
2. Plan and deliver an effective support and safety plan with the service user referring to specialist agencies as required. The progressions/outcomes identified, delivered, and service user contact should be recorded, monitored, reviewed, and updated regularly and in line with contract requirements.
3. Ensure that properties are always adequately equipped, maintained, furnished, and cleaned.
4. Maximise rent collection, ensuring successful housing and other welfare benefit claims are submitted and maintained, taking proactive action to minimise rent arrears in line with targets, monitoring the account and recording all actions and where necessary taking appropriate action when arrears arise in line with policy and procedure.
5. Minimise void time by taking a proactive approach to ensure properties are re-let as soon as possible in line with targets.
Your duties may vary from time to time within the broad remit of your role and grade. You are required to undertake any such reasonable and appropriate duties.
Car driver needed.
DBS check will be required for this role.
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