Oakfield Road, our supported housing service, has an opportunity for a reliable, proactive, and passionate person to join its team as a Scheme Support Officer on a full-time, permanent basis.
Where does the role fit in?
Oakfield House is a service that provides a housing solution for people where they can practice and gain independent living skills to improve their opportunity to sustain a tenancy in the near future. The team at Oakfield House will work positively and proactively with clients to change their lives by helping them to establish accommodation back within the community.
Oakfield House consists of 5 individual accommodation spaces and communal areas where the team can carry out workshops and activities that teach new skills or develop existing ones.
All our support teams across Pobl work using the Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) framework. Support is also tailored to the individual with a person-centred approach being central to our way of working. Consideration in how we deliver support is given to each supported person’s unique experiences and their own goals and aspirations they want to work towards.
Day to day duties:
Meeting new people with unique experiences and stories to tell
Engaging and interacting with the people we support to help them connect with other support services and being someone, they can talk to
Delivering workshops relating to tenancy management and health and wellbeing
Welfare checks
Ensuring the building is secure including health & safety checks and maintaining an awareness of who is in the building
Dealing with challenging behaviours
Addressing any additional needs, the people we support might have
Please refer to the job description for more detail on the role
What are the pay and benefits?
A competitive salary of £23,376.60
This position is permanent, Full-time 37hrs
26 days (pro rata) holiday entitlement plus Bank holidays
Pension scheme
Colleague Referral Scheme (£250 per referral)
Time for Talking – a free counselling service
Health Cash Plan
Savings Scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Eyecare plan
Give as You Earn charity donation scheme
Gym and shopping discounts
Training and progression opportunities – including QCF Level 3 training to qualify you as a Care Worker.
Opportunity to swap shifts within the team.