Closing Date: Thursday 28th November 2024
Up to £12.00 per hour
Gateshead, Tyne and Wear
Full-Time/Part-Time
How would you like to make a positive difference to someone’s life? We are keen to develop and support people in Gateshead to achieve their outcomes, dreams and aspirations.
Creative Support are looking to recruit a support worker who is experienced in working with people who have mental health support needs.
You will be working with an outcome-focused floating support team for people over the age of 18 who are experiencing homelessness, or who are at risk of homelessness and have housing-related support needs. The service is commissioned by Gateshead Council and will provide a time-limited support service from an office in Gateshead. The service will work with individuals with complex and often chaotic lives to provide a range of support options, including:
* Support in people’s own homes
* Drop-in sessions and activities/courses at our office
* Signposting services to ensure people have the support they need to find and maintain tenancies in the local community.
You will manage a case-load and provide direct support to service users in accordance with their holistic support plans. As a recovery worker, you will support service users who have complex and multiple needs, taking a multi-agency approach that ensures people have access to appropriate services that meet those needs. You will work with service users who require longer-term support with the aim of stabilising their lives through supporting them in developing the necessary skills and confidence for finding and managing a tenancy. You will promote inclusion, independence, and wellbeing with the aim of enabling service users to become active and productive citizens.
You will support service users by providing one-off interventions and longer-term support, devising clear exit strategies that take into account opportunities to build resilience, local connections, and knowledge of local service provision. Support will focus on the following areas:
* Prevention of tenancy failure or homelessness
* Financial management and resilience
* Meaningful activity including volunteering, training, and employment
* Improved health and wellbeing including smoking cessation, reduction in alcohol consumption and substance misuse, increased physical activity, improved diet, and greater engagement with primary and specialist health care services
* Improved engagement with probation and rehabilitation services, and criminal justice agencies
* Improved self-reported quality of life and self-reliance
* Improved connections to local community activities and leisure opportunities.
This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction to those who are looking to make a positive difference in the lives of others. We provide relevant training including accredited health and social care diplomas through our own training academy. You will be required to work in a flexible manner on a rota which may include evenings, weekends, and nights. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development, we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.
Application Instructions:
To apply, candidates must complete the online application form located on our company website via the listing for the above reference numbered role. We do not accept CVs as a method of application.
Completed Application Forms must be submitted to our Head Office address (below) or emailed to be considered for the vacancy. If you have not received a response to your application within 10 working days of the closing date please accept this as notification of an unsuccessful application. Unsuccessful applicants must wait 6 months before reapplying. We do not provide outcomes for unsuccessful applications.
Recruitment Department, Creative Support Ltd, Wellington House, 131 Wellington Road South, Stockport, SK1 3TS
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