Project Worker
Location: Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 1HQ
Salary: £12.50 per hour
Part-time hours: 30 - 22.5 hours per week
Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for a Project Worker at our Homelessness Service scheme, Northgate Street, Bury St Edmunds.
At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible.
We’re a national organisation, but we’re not-for-profit and we think locally by putting our customers at the heart of what we do.
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
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
Job Reference: 221476
Closing Date: 10 November 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.
An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for.
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