Housing Support Mentor

**Job Title**:Housing Support Mentor (Maternity Cover)

**Hours**:37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm)

**Salary**:£23,658.53 per annum, pro rata

**Based at**:The Dawn Centre, Colwyn Bay

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.

We are currently looking for a compassionate and dedicated individual to join our talented team providing high quality and effective housing related support.

**Job Purpose**:
To provide a floating support service for individuals experiencing substance use, mental health and or housing related issues. Providing support that enables service users to live independently and feel safe and secure with the long-term aim of them living substance free and independently in their own homes. Working with service users in areas such as employment, training and education, debt management and daily living skills to promote wellbeing and a healthy lifestyle.

**Main Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Working with service users in a proactive time and task specific manner on a variety of issues to impact positively on issues relating to housing, employment, training and education, offending behaviour and social isolation.
- To provide a variety of supports to service users identified as appropriate using an integrative person-centred approach consistent with the functional model and methods used by Adferiad Recovery.
- To establish a positive relationship with service user to ensure successful support to address their housing needs.
- To assess service users for suitability taking into account risk and establish support plans based on established Adferiad Recovery assessment procedures.
- To provide a service to the service user group that complements and enhances the service provision of the local housing providers and specialist substance misuse agencies in the context of the supporting people initiative.
- To enable service users to administer their financial affairs as appropriate, working within FCA guidelines.

**Person Specification**:
**Essential Qualifications**:

- Qualified/willing to work towards NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care or hold equivalent qualifications.

**Essential Experience**:

- Experience of working with vulnerable client groups.
- Experience of working in community-based services.
- Experience of working with people with housing difficulties.
- Experience of partnership working.
- Experience of different treatment models to support the service user.

**Essential Skills**:

- Good communication skills.

**Essential Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of Housing, offending and employment issues.
- Knowledge of substance misuse issues.
- Good local knowledge.

**Other Requirements**:

- A flexible approach to ensure service users have appropriate access to support when needed.
- Full driving license and access to a vehicle.

**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
- Tusker 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, Fixed term contract

Pay: Up to £23,658.53 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private dental insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Colwyn Bay: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Residential Childcare: 1 year (preferred)
- Support Environment: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- NVQ Level 2 Health & Social Care (preferred)
- Full UK Driving License (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 25/09/2024
Reference ID: AC217