About The Role
Are you passionate about supporting and transforming the lives of people who are experiencing or recovering from homelessness?
Hither Green Service (Spring Gardens and Hilda House) is a busy, flagship service which provides you with the opportunity to join a specialised and committed team using a trauma-informed approach, supporting 68, multiple excluded, highly vulnerable adults with complex needs in Lewisham.
We are looking for someone to join our team as a part-time Support Worker (known internally as a Project Worker). In this vital role you will:
* Covering casework during full-time staff absence
* Work together with clients to identify their personal aims and ambitions and support them towards achieving them.
* Respond to incident and crises as a team in a way that maximises safety and wellbeing.
* Provide practical and personal support to clients in an approachable, caring and person centred way.
* Work as part of a dedicated team in an accommodation setting to provide a high quality, positive and safe service to clients.
* Keep up to date administrative records relating to client work, housing management and health and safety.
* Work set days Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 09:00 – 17:00, including bank holidays.
About you
To succeed in these highly rewarding role you will:
* Have an understanding of the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people – you may have had personal experience of homelessness yourself.
* Have experience of helping vulnerable people to identify personal goals and supporting them through a process of change.
* Have a sound understanding of the support needs of people with low incomes, including rent payments/arrears and professional boundary issues.
* Possess good interpersonal and listening skills, in order to be able to establish an effective working relationship with clients and an eagerness to learn and work with clients in a holistic and person-centred approach.
* Ability to support colleagues in diffusing difficult or dangerous situations and to summon outside assistance when necessary.
* Ability to challenge disruptive or unacceptable behaviour in a sympathetic and assertive way, balancing the needs of the individual with responsibilities for the safety of the service.
Above all we are looking for inspirational, committed individuals who will be committed to our Recovery Ethos, and has a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives.
How to apply
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Closing date: 10am on 26 February 2025
Interview and assessments on: 5 March 2025
About Us
Our purpose is to end homelessness and rebuild lives. It drives everything that we do. For the past 55 years, we have been on the ground every day and every night, supporting people to recover from homelessness and advocating for change. We support around 28,000 people each year and our work means that more than 2,700 people have somewhere safe to stay each night.
What We Offer
We are working hard to create a diverse and fully inclusive culture where all colleagues feel valued, and we welcome applications from all under-represented groups. We believe that equity, diversity and inclusion improves the health, wellbeing and development of our colleagues and helps to ensure everyone feels valued. We know that when diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are prioritised, we are happier, healthier and can ultimately achieve better outcomes for our clients.
Below are some of our key focus areas to improve both our candidate and colleague experience:
* A growing number of diversity networks including LGBTQ+, Womens Action, Lived Experience and Anti-Racist networks.
* Increasing visibility by ensuring that all interview panels across the organisation are diversely represented to ensure fair and balanced decision making during the recruitment process.
* A safe and supportive working environment championing positive action via various internal schemes such as upward mentoring and a Steps into Management programme.
* Mandatory Diversity & Inclusion training for all staff, unconscious bias training for managers, and a range of other courses such as Trans awareness and Autism Awareness.
* In recognition of the importance of transparency, we publish our employee diversity statistics and pay gap reports on our website.
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We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to our colleagues to ensure wellbeing remains a key priority. Maintaining a good work life balance can be tricky, but with family friendly policies, flexible and agile working options and an incremental annual leave allowance, we are committed to making sure you have the options available as and when you need them.
These include:
* Agile working model for suitable roles.
* Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
* 28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
* Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave. Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
* Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
* Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
* Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
* Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
* Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.
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At St Mungo’s we are committed to providing development opportunities for all our colleagues. We welcome people with a wide range of experiences and value transferable skills so that we can provide the best support for people experiencing homelessness. That’s why we have a robust induction, training and development programme that supports colleagues throughout their career at St Mungo’s.
These include:
* Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
* Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
* Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.
A DBS disclosure check is a requirement for this post and will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.