Project Worker

Our Monmouthshire Supported housing accommodation Service is looking for part-time Project Worker to join their team working in the Abergavenny scheme. Our service gives young people experiencing homelessness a housing solution. Our service offers housing related support to assist our service users to move into their own tenancy and gain independence. For this role you will be required to work on a rolling rota which will include working days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-in shifts.

**What is great about the role?**

Here you will find a welcoming team who are all enthusiastic and motivated to empower the people we support to live independently. This is a really rewarding role where you will see the people we support develop and grow and build on their confidence to be able to move on into their own tenancy.

Our motivation is to ensure we equip these individuals with the knowledge and tools they need to live independently. This is a challenging role and you will be faced with complex behaviours and needs, including alcohol misuse, mental health, substance misuse and offending behaviour. You will work with a range of different personalities and behaviours so you will need to be able to adapt your approach to engage with a diverse cliental.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to really make a difference to people’s lives and help them, build on their confidence and skills to move into their own tenancies within the Monmouthshire area.

**Your day will consist of**:

- Engaging and interacting with our service users
- Writing and following a support plan with the individual you are supporting
- Delivering workshops relating to tenancy management and health and wellbeing
- Liaising with external agencies
- Addressing any additional needs, the people we support might have

**Who we are looking for**:

- Have knowledge of housing related support and benefit systems
- Have good organisation, IT and record keeping skills
- Can work part of a team and on an individual basis
- Deal with difficult situations
- Have good listening skills

**Pobl Benefits**
- Permanent, Part-time (19hrs)
- The FTE salary is £25,486.00 + additional payment of £34.54 for each sleep-in (approx. 7 sleep-ins per month)
- Shift patterns include working days, evenings, weekends, bank holidays and sleep-in shifts.
- Location: Abergavenny, may be required to occasionally work at our Chepstow service
- Enhanced DBS which we will pay for
- 26 days (pro rata) holiday entitlement plus Bank holidays
- Pension scheme
- Sick Pay
- Bespoke learning pathway with the support from an experienced Learning and Development team
- Internal Progression
- Wellbeing and psychological support
- Time for Talk service

And much more...

**What do you need to do now?**

Further information on the role can also be found on the Job Description.

SJS

**Job Types**: Part-time, Permanent

Pay: £13,087.41 per year

Expected hours: 19 per week

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay

Shift:

- Day shift
- Night shift

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 508337