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Floating Support Worker
2 months ago
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
About the Floating Support Worker role:
The Islington Multi-Disciplinary Service is funded by the London Borough of Islington. The service is funded to support vulnerable residents aged 18 and upwards , with a focus on tenancy sustainment and developing independent living skills. The service works closely with partner agencies across the borough to support clients to maximise opportunities to lead fulfilling lives. Partner agencies include local Housing Departments , DWP , Treatment Agencies and Mental Health Services.
The role of the FSW is to support a caseload of up to 25 clients within a recovery framework.
The primary focus is on preventing tenancy breakdown, improving quality of life and promoting independence. This can involve helping our clients to maximise or stabilise their income. It could also involve us helping tenants to address other issues such as substance use and mental health problems.
The role includes hybrid working and will be based in our office in Holloway and at home.
Skills and experience we're looking for in our Floating Support Worker:
- Experience/knowledge of supporting clients to carry out tasks such as budgeting , calculating benefit entitlements and understanding rent arrears and housing options.
- Experience of working in a client centred support service working with vulnerable people presenting with a wide range of support needs, with an ability to devise and deliver on action plans through high quality risk management and needs assessment.
- A demonstrable level of experience and/or understanding of the range of approaches appropriate to working with some or all of the needs listed: Substance Use issues, Mental and Physical ill heath, Challenging behaviour, Risk of Homelessness, Antisocial behaviour.
- A good and current understanding of safeguarding issues and the ability to undertake comprehensive Risk Assessments.
- Experience/knowledge of working within a strengths and recovery-based model and engage and motivate people to move towards an appropriate level of independence and inclusion.
- The ability to use a computer to input data accurately, to communicate effectively through emails and to produce good quality minutes of meetings, client notes, letters and reports.
Our attractive benefits package includes:
- A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
- A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 4pm) in non-accommodation services
- 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
- A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
- Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
- Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work
Closing date: Sunday 15th September 2024
Interview date: Week commencing Monday 23rd September via Microsoft Teams
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.
Don't miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team - please click 'apply' now to become our Floating Support Worker -we'd like to hear from you
Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited.