Support Worker

5 days ago

Birkenhead, United Kingdom The Riverside Group Full time

**Support Worker**

**Permanent Full Time 37.5 Hours**

**Based in Birkenhead**

**Salary £22,898 -£23,974**

**Working Pattern - Monday - Sunday 5 day Shifts**

Want to make a real difference to the lives of people? For over 90 years, The Riverside Group has been providing affordable housing across the UK to people as well as care for the elderly and support for those who face homelessness.

**The difference you’ll make**

You’ll be working from one of our supported services and you’ll support a number of different people.

You’ll support our customers in a variety of ways. For example, linking them in with employability coaches and other support agencies, helping them manage their money, signing up for benefits or to move on to a more permanent home.

It’ll be your job to help boost their confidence and support them on their journey as they rebuild their lives.

Through all of this you’ll need to keep records of everything, so there is some admin to do.

**So, who are you?**

At times this role is tough but most of the time it can be incredibly rewarding. You will need to be resilient, empathetic, and able to leave your work at work and not take it home with you.

As an essential requirement you’ll have:
Experience of working with vulnerable people and an understanding of supporting vulnerable people - this could include having your own lived experience of homelessness or drug or alcohol addiction.

Ideally, you’ll also have:
Experience of delivering structured support in either housing or social care and be able to demonstrate IT Skills to include a basic proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word and Excel

**You will be required to work flexible hours to meet customer and business needs, which may not include normal office hours and may include Lone Working**

**Enjoy the rewards **Pro Rata**

Working with us, you’ll enjoy competitive pay, 28 days holiday Pro Rata excluding 8 bank holidays, a wide range of benefits, flexible working, and the chance to learn valuable new skills. We empower our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development, and technology.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here. Sound like a challenge you’d like to take on? Then get in touch and let’s talk about how you can help us transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.
- We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work. _

**Role Profile**

**The Support Worker is responsible for the delivery of individual, positive outcome focused support packages to clients of Riverside’s supported schemes and ensuring that the support service promotes empowerment and independence. It is imperative to work as part of a staff team committed to “best practice” in the social housing field working proactively with clients in achieving their personalised support outcomes.
- Delivering a ‘best practice’ support service, appropriate to clients’ needs.
- Ensuring the delivery of individual personalised support packages, reflective of different client needs, including culture and diversity issues.
- Assisting clients with day-to-day tenancy issues, payment of rent, claiming benefits, preparing units to let.
- Knowledge of ‘best practice’ in both crisis intervention and planned support working.
- Undertaking referrals and assessments of potential clients, working with them to identify the most appropriate housing solution for their needs.
- Ensuring clients have access to relevant external support services.
- Working with clients to agree and set goals and actions.
- Meeting clearly defined client outcome targets through key-working, support plans, risk assessments and other interventions.
- Ensuring that opportunities for education, training and employment opportunities are integral to the support service.
- The aim being to enable clients to develop the life skills to live as independently as possible.
- Maintaining accurate and timely records of all activities including the maintenance of a support
- planning database.
- Providing practical support and information to clients when entering the service and throughout their involvement with the service, e.g., assisting clients in the completion of occupancy agreements and welfare benefit claims

**ABOUT US**

Riverside is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit social housing and regeneration organisations, owning or managing around 75,000 homes from Irvine to Kent. We are a leading provider of supported housing services, particularly for those affected by homelessness, and our track record of transforming lives and revitalising neighbourhood’s dates back over 100 years. We have plans to build over 15,000 affordable homes over the next decade.

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