Department: Health and Social Care (Qualified and Non-Qualified)
Operation: Sanctuary Supported Living
Closing Date: .
Requisition: 223586
Project Worker
Location: Grove Park, 71-78 Grove Park, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 3BQ
Salary: £12.50 per hour
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for a Project Worker at our Homelessness Service, Grove Park, St Edmunds. We specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England live as independently as possible.
The role of Project Worker will include:
* Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence
* Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
* Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries
* Developing relationships with customers, ensuring that customers maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity
* Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health and wellbeing and offer training and encouragement towards employment and education
* Handling occasional emergency situations
* Keeping accurate and high-quality written records
Skills and experiences:
* Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness
* Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
* Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
* Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy
* Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets
* NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential
Benefits:
* At least 25 days paid holiday, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service (plus public holidays) pro rata
* A pension scheme with employer contributions
* A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
* Health and well-being plans
* Life assurance
* Family friendly arrangements, including opportunities for flexible working
* Tax efficient savings through our Cycle to Work scheme
* A wide range of learning and development opportunities
Job Reference: 223586
We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK. Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.
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