Whitehaven Community Trust has a fantastic part-time job opportunity available for a Support Worker, and we are assisting them to find the perfect candidate.
The trust is committed to ensuring young people in times of crisis are safe and supported. With their hardworking support staff guiding them, they strive to promote independent living and confidence.
If you are motivated, organised, confident, have emotional resilience, and are able to use a computer, then this could be the perfect job for you. It's working 16 hours per week, which can include weekends and bank holidays. Shift patterns are 1:00pm till 10:00pm and 1:00pm to 8:00pm.
Your job will be to provide advice, information, and support services to single homeless young women and men aged 18 to 28 years.
There will be training and support available to help you settle into your new role. You will gain a lot of job satisfaction in this role while making a real difference to people's lives.
Responsibilities
* Liaise with service users and book appointments.
* Support service users with registering and bidding on Choice Based Lettings and signposting to relevant services.
* Support service users with benefits, funds, debt solutions, and budgeting.
* Support service users with direct payments to WCT for service charge/rent payments.
* Ensure all communal areas within projects are clean, including hoovering and general tidying when needed.
* Void rooms/properties for new move-ins.
* Maintain safety and security within the project.
* Liaise with outside organisations and security agencies to support service users.
* Collect food.
* Attend team meetings.
* Send shift reports every day of tasks achieved to management.
Requirements
* Self-motivated.
* Confident.
* Organised.
* Able to use a computer.
* A team player who can also work on own initiative.
* Ability to motivate others and promote positivity.
* Has DBS (or willing to go through the application process).
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