Senior Housing Support Worker

6 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Kensington Community Care (Gloucester) Limited Full time

Kensington Community Care provide support for homeless people living in temporary accommodation.

**PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- **Lead a small staff team of support workers to ensure they carry out their roles effectively in the absence of the Services Manager**:

- **Service Delivery**

To be responsible for the effective delivery of high quality housing support and resettlement services for homeless people
- **Resource Management**

To be responsible for the effective utilisation of a range of accommodation options, with a focus on resettling people from supported accommodation into permanent accommodation.
- **Casework Management**

To work with clients ensuring provision of advice, support, motivation, crisis intervention and future planning, is appropriate to the expressed needs of service users
- **Organisational Responsibilities**

To be responsible for contributing to the running of Kensington's integrated services for homeless people.

**SPECIFIC DUTIES**:
Senior Support Workers will be required to lead a small staff team and support staff in the delivery of risk assessments and create support plans for each tenant in their case load. Senior Support Workers will ensure their staff carry out weekly supervisions with the tenants to ensure they are able to manage their tenancy effectively. The support sessions involve a number of services including:

- Financial Budgeting
- Assistance with GP registration
- Signposting for drugs and alcohol support
- Accommodation search (Long Term Accommodation)
- Access to education provision
- Overcoming employability issues
- Avoiding rent arrears.
- Reducing anti social behaviour

Training is provided for the role.

Must have experience working within Mental Health, Exempt Accommodation & understand the importance of paperwork.

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

**Salary**: £11.50 per hour

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- What is your understanding of safeguard?

**Experience**:

- Support Environment: 2 years (required)
- Exempt Accommodation: 1 year (required)

Work Location: In person


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