Support Worker

**Support Worker - Level 2**

Sunderland

Full Time (37.5hours per week)

Temporary Contract: 6-month Fixed Term covering Maternity Leave. (There may be a possible extension this)

Salary £18,576 to £18,730 pa (pro rata)

From £9.50 per hour if you’d prefer to work on a casual basis

Plus, Brilliant Benefits

**Empowering customers to live rewarding and happy lives. That’s when it hits home.**

We have fabulous opportunity for you to join our awesome team. We support our brilliant customers who have mental health issues.

They live in a supported accommodation services which consists of a core building of 9 rooms and 20 dispersed properties which are spread across the City of Sunderland.

We help our customers to achieve their goals and aspirations, supporting them in their recovery and helping them to gain the independent living skills necessary for them to move on into their own accommodation.

Home Group play a big part in tackling prejudice and discrimination, not just for our customers, but colleagues too You can be yourself here, aswe value everything that makes you unique. So whatever your age, race, sexuality, disability, religion, or gender identity, we recognise and celebrate our differences. Together we make Home Group a great place to work

**Customer quote**

“I love it here staff are really nice and approachable”

**About our team**

You’ll be working alongside our fabulous team who are super passionate about supporting customers to reach their goals and celebrating their achievements. To us were not just a team we’re a ‘work family’. Our manager is Sarah Purvis, who has worked for Homegroup for ten years. There are 15 of us in the team and we don’t just love to support our customers, we’re there for each other too We have a Mental Health Practice Lead, 3 Lead Support Workers, 6 support workers, 2.5 concierge, a handyperson and a cleaner. We are a brand-new service with a fantastic team who are passionate about supporting our customers and developing our service to become the best it can be.

**Working hours** - **Shifts/Rota**

We provide 24-hour support to our customers each day and every day.

You’ll work on a rota basis between the hours of 08:00am and 21:15pm and take your turn working days, evenings, weekends and bank holidays. We need you to be flexible to meet the needs of our customers, but we aim to give you the time you need to spend time doing the things that matter to you.

**Bank**

Looking for a more flexible working pattern? You can also join us on a flexible basis by being part of our bank. You can work hours that fit around your current commitments or even pick up some additional shifts to your main role to earn some extra cash and get paid on a weekly basis.

**About you**

You’re passionate and motivated to help vulnerable people make positive and lasting changes to their lives. You’ll impress us with your ability to work on your own initiative, positively influencing people from all different backgrounds. You will have experience in safeguarding, risk assessments, confidentiality, support plans, alongside working collaboratively.

We help change our customer’s lives for the better. You’ll play your part by assisting in the delivery of tasks that are based on our customers personal support plans, and their needs and aspirations. You’ll work with our Senior Support Workers and external agencies to assess and engage support for our customers. We empower our customers to develop the independent living skills they need, to successfully move on. Together we’ll make a difference.

To make sure our customers are well supported, it’s important that you have worked in a supported housing environment before. Don’t worry, we won’t drop you in the deep end, we’ll help to you understand how things work at Home Group.

As this is a community-based role, you’ll need to travel around to spend time with your customers. You could do this role using public transport, or if you drive and have access to a vehicle that would also be amazing (we pay your expenses to cover this use).
- When you join, you’ll need to have a valid Enhanced Check under the Disclosure and Barring Service. The great news is that we will pay for that to be done if you don’t have a transferrable one._

**Want to know more?**

If you’re not reading this advert on our career’s pages, press the **APPLY NOW** button to access lots of useful stuff You can download the support worker job description, and find out more about Home Group. We’ve also got some short films that show you what it’s like to work here, and we know you’ll want to find out more about our award winning benefits and rewards package

**To apply**

**Work Locations**: Sunderland (Toward Road) 1 Toward Road Sunderland SR1 2QF