Housing Support Mentor

3 weeks ago


Bridgend, United Kingdom Adferiad Recovery Full time

**Contract**: 30 hours per week, permanent

**Salary**: £20,041.31 per annum pro rata

**Location**: Bridgend

Adferiad Recovery delivers a new, flexible, and co-ordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance misuse conditions and related issues. We harness the talents and experience of our founding and long-established leading Welsh Charities CAIS, Hafal, and WCADA in their fields, enabling our projects to meet the needs of our most vulnerable with a single, unified, and comprehensive approach.

**The role**:
We are currently looking for a compassionate and dedicated individual to join our talented team providing high quality and effective housing related support that focuses on strengths and goals within a framework of reducing harm, achieving tenancy sustainment, and living independently.

The service assists people who have experienced/are experiencing homelessness and chronic health and social care needs to find and maintain a stable home from which to rebuild their lives. Support will be available between 9.00 am to 8.00 pm - Mon to Sun with specific hours of support determined by each client needs across the Bridgend County. You will be expected to be flexible and work across the hours and days of service delivery and will be part of a rota of on-call service for out of hours provision where necessary.

Main responsibilities:

- Provide a variety of person centred, tailored interventions that support individuals with complex needs to find sustainable accommodation and develop their independent living skills.
- Manage a client caseload, and complete individual needs assessments, risk assessments, support plans and offer practical advice and advocacy to service users.
- Build and maintain positive relationships with individuals with complex needs to ensure successful support, to address the persons accommodation and wider support needs.
- Support service users to exercise informed choices about their lives where possible and to enhance their social skills and participate in their community.
- Support service users to identify the areas of support needed and identify the best option of support based on ongoing needs as outlined in their individual Support Plans.
- Liaise with relevant services, organisations, and agencies with regards to accessing additional support for service users.
- Practice homeless prevention, tenancy sustainment, Psychologically Informed Approaches, Solution Focus Practice, harm reduction, and co-production.
- To participate in the provision of an on-call service.

**Person Specification**:

- There are no specific qualifications but there must be evidence of commitment to personal and career development relevant to the post
- Must have experience of providing care and support services to individuals with complex needs in a community setting (such as those who are homeless/at risk of homelessness, offending behaviour, mental health, domestic abuse, substance misuse)
- Must have experience of partnership working
- Must have full UK driving licence and full access to a vehicle for work purposes
- All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).

**What you’ll get in return**:

- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata)
- Option to purchase additional annual leave
- Life assurance
- Pension Contribution scheme
- Continuous service rewards
- Refer a friend scheme
- Employee benefit platform giving access to a wide range of perks, including shopping discounts at 100s of big-brand retailers
- Health and Wellbeing Staff Service
- Money Advice Service
- Quarterly Health and Wellbeing Staff Raffle
- Christmas Hampers and Birthday Gifts
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Vehicle Purchase Scheme
- Technology Purchase Scheme
- Free breakfast at Adferiad Recovery Offices and Project Buildings - Employee Events - Bupa Healthcare Package
- Volunteering Opportunities

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 30 per week

**Salary**: £10.25 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Wellness programme

Work Location: One location

Reference ID: AE010



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