Specialist Support Worker

Riverside have a permanent opportunity for a Specialist Support Worker in Leeds, working full time.

You will earn £25,170.54 per annum. Your working pattern will be 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday from 9am until 5pm.

**Who you’ll be helping**

Engage Leeds is a city-wide service that is split in to 3 geographical areas. The wedge Riverside operates in, covers all of South Leeds.

The Engage Leeds service is commissioned by Leeds City Council and its key aim is to support anyone in Leeds over the age of 18 who is struggling with their housing and have support needs.

We work with people from all tenures including council housing, housing associations, private landlords and people who own their own homes by providing a visiting support service.The type of support provided includes mental health, dementia, substance use anf more complex needs that may cover more than one area of need depending on the person’s situation.

The 3 key goals we have are preventing homelessness by addressing issues that could lead to this by giving advice, helping with mediation and signposting to relevant services. We provide support to people to enable them to maintain their current housing and this will be slightly different for people depending on their individual circumstances. We call this sustainment. And thirdly we support people to integrate in to their communities in the hope of reducing loneliness and isolation and connecting people to improve well-being and quality of life.

For more information on the Project, click here.

**What will you do?**

The purpose of this role is to lead the delivery of individual support packages to clients of Engage Leeds in relation to their housing support needs.

A Specialist/Senior housing Support Worker is required to provide additional support to the Team Leader in leading the Housing Support Team, carry a caseload and act as a senior member of the team, providing guidance and support to Housing Support Workers as and when required, and directly line managing Grow Trainee Assistants. The Housing Support Team will work on a one-to-one basis with clients within their own homes and in the community, promoting client empowerment and independence, as part of the wider Engage Leeds team and service.

The individual is required to carry out the day-to-day people management functions associated with managing and leading a team, under the direction of the Team Leader.

WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Team Leader - the post holder is responsible to the Team Leader in relation to the performance of their day to day duties and for overall individual performance

Housing Support Team (Engage Leeds Partnership - South) - the post holder will work closely with other members of the team and provide guidance and support when needed

Grow trainees - provide line management and supervision whilst support to achieve a qualification.

Engage Leeds Partnership - the post holder will work closely with other members of the wider team across the Engage Leeds Partnership as appropriate.

For a deeper understanding of your responsibilities, take a look at the job description linked below.

**Does this describe you?**
You are flexible, empathetic, inclusive and resilient. Even better, you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills too.

You are experienced when it comes to working with vulnerable client groups and have delivered structure support in either a housing or a social work setting previously. You have demonstratable basic proficiency in Microsoft office as well as the willingness to learn company specific IT systems and complete relevant training.

Click on the job description linked below to see a full list of our essential requirements.

**What’s in it for you?**

In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you:

- Access to ongoing personal career development opportunities
- Pension scheme
- 25 days holiday per year
- Eye tests, glasses and lenses
- Riverside Rewards scheme and app, providing valuable access to discounted benefits including high street and online savings
**Who are Riverside?**

We are one of the UK’s leading social housing and regeneration organisations. We are a group of not-for-profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core. Operating across 150+ local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 90,000+ people, we are fully committed to improving the lives of thousands of individuals and families. We seek to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

**Is Riverside for you?**

We want you to feel empowered and that your voice is truly heard. Being a company **focused on people**, we treat our customers with this same respect.

We **trust **you to protect our customers, our people and our business and we see outstanding worth in those with the **courage** to take responsibility, innovate and find solutions.

Your focus on performance and **ambition** is rewarded with development opportunities. With Riverside, y