Support Worker

**Role: ** Support Worker

**Based: ** Rugby

**Rate**: £12.25 - £15 per hour depending on pay status £24,164.50 - £25,978.00 per annum including disturbance allowance

**Start Date: ** ASAP

**Duration: ** Temp to Perm

**Hours**: 37.5 hours - shift pattern

To improve the lives of young people by delivering a high quality direct support service to individuals or groups. This includes being a point of contact with referring agents and partnership agencies to ensure effective collaboration for individual support needs and working in conjunction with the team and the service manager

**Synopsis of duties**:

- Work with people offering supported opportunities for them to improve their quality of life, develop their skills and make decisions about their future.
- Act as individual ‘Keyworker’ to a group of identified people in the service, taking lead responsibility (and acting as lead contact with other services) for the coordination and delivery of their support.
- Work within policies and style of operation - this will include tasks and day to day decision making
- Providing general practical and emotional support to people in the service in order to promote their independence and recovery.
- Responding appropriately to chaotic and challenging behaviour to promote the wellbeing of people in the service and staff.
- To undertake training e.g., through attendance at formal courses
- Providing an effective and responsive supportive service
- Liaise with referral teams/agencies regarding vacancies and referrals
- Participate in the team’s provision of individual support and needs assessment, including risk assessment, advice, emotional support and practical assistance
- Participate in assessing and reviewing future housing and support needs, and in identifying and coordinating internal and external services and referrals in response to these.
- Keep appropriate records of interventions with people in the service and inform other staff of relevant issues
- Facilitate regular consultation and action to enable people within the service to make decisions concerning their resettlement options with a view to independent living
- Assist in arranging appointments with the relevant professionals e.g., Social Workers, Probation Officers and Medical Staff, where appropriate
- Provide advice and assistance to people within the service on personal budgeting, debt management and claims for welfare benefits
- Encourage participation from people within the service in the development and operation of the service, facilitating appropriate consultation and participation
- Provide a non-specialist support service with regards to prompting people within the service (where appropriate), to take prescribed medication on a day to day basis
- Participate in 24 hour rota to ensure adequate cover is maintained for service delivery, where appropriate
- Share responsibility for the effective use of information systems and procedures regarding records, eg finance and staff communications.

**Essential Requirements**:

- Proven track record of supporting vulnerable young people and/ or adults either within an accommodation or community-based service. Preferred experience of working with addictions, substance misuse, homelessness or mental health
- Strong safeguarding and risk assessments skills and experience
- Proven track record of successfully carrying and managing your own caseload
- Enhanced DBS issued within the last 12 months and/ or registered on the DBS Update Service

Supporting Futures Consulting acts as both an employer and an agency.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £12.25-£15.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Licence/Certification:

- DBS dated within 12 months or on the update service? (required)
- Driving Licence and car (required)

Work Location: In person