Our client is a successful charity with a temporary requirement for an experienced support worker who has worked with young people aged 16+ with complex needs.
The successful candidate will be required to work 37.5 hours per week, across Monday to Sunday on a rota basis, covering early (8 AM - 3:30 PM), mid (12:30 PM - 8 PM), and late (3 PM - 10:30 PM) shifts. There is a requirement to work 2 weekends out of 4. Temporary cover is required for approximately 2 - 3 months.
In this position, you will be required to:
1. Hold a caseload of 2 - 4 young people and undertake regular key working sessions resulting in co-produced support and safety plans that are SMART and evidence progress.
2. Assess the needs of young people to identify appropriate move-on accommodation.
3. Produce comprehensive and high-quality risk assessments and risk management plans.
4. Assess referrals to the project to ensure suitable young people can be accepted.
5. Provide a safe, welcoming, and high-quality standard of accommodation, ensuring that when young people move in, they feel comfortable and welcomed and are given information concerning the building and other local services.
6. Minimise risk to young people by identifying, reporting, and following up any safeguarding concerns and incidents.
7. Work with social workers to enable young people to move back home if appropriate, or to support young people in identifying opportunities for move-on to appropriate supported, shared, or self-contained accommodation.
8. Support young people to maximise benefit entitlements and secure project income through the collection of rents and service charges and the minimisation of arrears and void loss.
9. Run activities and support young people to participate in activities to prepare them for independence.
10. Provide support to young people who are ready to move into work, education, or training by assisting them to access suitable courses or placements.
11. Work in partnership with internal departments as well as external community agencies to ensure client needs are met.
12. Carry out Health & Safety duties.
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