Project Worker
St John’s Church Road, Folkestone, Kent, CT19 5BQ
£13.12 per hour
40 hours per week
Sanctuary Supported Living are delighted to be recruiting for a Project Worker at Church Road, Folkestone to provide support to children and young adults.
At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care and support services to people across England. We help people to live as independently as possible through supported housing, Care Quality Commission (CQC) registered services, retirement communities, move-on accommodation, floating support, and technology in the home.
We’re a not-for-profit national organisation, but we think locally. We’re committed to being our best and helping customers to be their best, as we support them on their pathways for independence.
No matter your job – delivering support directly or working in our offices to support our frontline teams – your work makes a difference every day.
And working with us isn’t just another job. It’s rewarding, inspiring, exciting and it provides an opportunity to make a real, positive impact in people’s lives. Plus, we’ll support you in reaching your aspirations and career goals, through comprehensive training and benefits.
The role of Project Worker will include:
• Providing peace of mind for all customers by carrying out security checks throughout the night, checking on all buildings and customers
• Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
• Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer and customer queries
• Developing professional 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
• Lone working at night
Skills and experiences:
• Experience of working with vulnerable children and young adults
• Proven experience of working with relevant client group
• Proven knowledge of key needs and services for relevant client group
• Some knowledge of relevant legislative and regulatory requirements
• Good understanding of written and spoken English
• Good communication skills
• Good interpersonal and customer care skills
• Ability to demonstrate a positive and accepting approach to clients whatever their needs
• Ability to keep accurate records and clearly communicate relevant information
• Ability to make accurate simple calculations
• Email and internet communications
Are you ready to be your best?
Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are just some of the ways we’ll reward you:
• 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
• The full time equivalent for this role is 37.5 hours
Job reference: 219069
Closing Date: 7 July 2024
We reserve the right depending on application numbers to close or extend the closing dates for positions; we would therefore recommend an early application.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers.
We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.