Support Worker

1 month ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Look Ahead Housing and Care Full time

**Job profile**:

- The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
- **Job details**:
**Job details**:

Job reference
- REQ004467
- Date posted
- 13/01/2023
- Application closing date
- 19/03/2023
- Location
- Milton Keynes
- Salary
- £21,000.00 per annum, pro rota.
- Package
- Plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare, and career progression.
- Contractual hours
- 40
- Basis
- Full time
- Job category/type
- Full Time, Permanent
- **Support Worker**:

Job description
- **Recruiting **Support Worker** **to join our Young Peoples service in Milton Keynes.**

Looking for a new role where you can make a difference every day? We’re looking for a kind, compassionate and resilient Support Worker to join our Young Peoples service in Milton Keynes.

£ 21,000.00 per annum, working 40 hours per week, plus Annual Leave pro rata, Pension schemes, staff discounts, healthcare, and career progression.

Shift patterns: (may include working some weekends)

Early - 07:30 - 15:30

Mid: 10:00 - 18:00

Late - 14:00 -22:00

Look Ahead is a dynamic, leading, not-for-profit care and support provider in London and the South East. As an organisation we deliver over 110 services, providing support to around 7000 customers each year. We work across mental health, homelessness, young people and learning disabilities so there are plenty of opportunities to grow and progress your career with us.

We’re looking for a Support Worker to join our Young Peoples service.

You will be provided with training and support, and we are comfortable to support someone who wants internal progression.

Whilst it can be challenging dealing with the chaotic nature of young people as their emotional instability is apparent in their behaviour, it is also very rewarding. You will help the young people build their confidence and develop skills that let them go out into the world. Seeing the positive outcomes and the changes in their behaviour, such as managing their emotions, is massively rewarding.

You will need to be positive and conscientiousness, happy to get your hands dirty and get involved. We’re looking for people willing to go above and beyond.
- Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers.
- Working proactively with other members of the team to handle the service caseload and administrative responsibilities.
- Supporting key customers to set personalised goals in the form of a Support Plan.
- Conducting regular key work sessions that are innovative and engaging in order to achieve Support Plan goals.
- Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of ‘positive risk taking’.
- Proactively manage risk and safety both in and outside of their physical living environment.
- Providing support with daily living activities, including practical assistance where skills are not yet developed, to ensure that customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation.

**Essential**:

- Basic/ Beginner computer skills
- Good with communication/ teamwork
- Values
- Good attitude to work
- Team player

**Desirable**:

- Experience writing incident reports.
- Working adults in care setting
- Volunteer working with children/ Young People
- Qualifications
- NVQ 2,3,4

**Job Overview**:
Milton Keynes Young Peoples Service is a Supported Accommodation Service for young people aged 16-21 with the capacity to support 45 Young People at any one time. The service provides a high level of support to Young People that may be care leavers, looked after children and unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. They are supported with a variety of complex support needs such as child sexual exploitation, gangs and offending, substance misuse and mental health.

You will be working with and leading a team of specialists and supports workers to support Young People to meet their aspirations, stay safe and live independently. The service is compiled of 5 properties, the largest capacity at one site being 16 units with 24hr support. Customers are with us for 6 to 18 months and the Service encompasses a mix of units across 4 sites.

The aim of the service is to empower Young People to move towards independent living, supporting their successful transition from childhood; laying the foundations for healthy, ambitious, and safe adult lives with mínimal ongoing support. Support is delivered in partnership with a number of stakeholders and partners in the community such as mental health services; substance misuses agencies, housing teams, police and social services.

The young people will have complex and multifaceted needs. This could include emotional and mental health issues, drug and alcohol misuse, partaking in criminal activity and anti-social behaviours or being at risk of sexual exploitation. Whilst the majority of young people referred will not yet be ready to live fully independently, t


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