Floating Support Worker

**Single Homeless Project** has** **an opportunity for a **Floating Support Worker **to join us in** Westminster.** You will join us on a** full-time, permanent basis, **and in return, you will receive a **competitive salary starting at £25,642.50 and rising incrementally to £27,496.09 per annum.**

**Single Homeless Project **is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

**About the Floating Support Worker role**:
Are you passionate about making a positive impact on people’s lives? Do you thrive on providing empathetic and meaningful support to those facing challenges? If yes, come join the team

Floating Support Workers in the Westminster Service will be part of a large, dynamic team providing an effective and empowering service to vulnerable clients across a variety of tenures.

You will be responsible for delivering person-centred, psychologically informed support to a range of individuals, with varying needs, to enable them to sustain their tenancy, enhance their wellbeing, build resilience, and achieve their goals and aspirations. The work you undertake will really make a difference to people’s lives.

All work undertaken will be in line with planned support, making sure that clients are actively involved and that the support offered is full and holistic.

**Skills and experience we're looking for in our Floating Support Worker**:

- Understanding of how to support clients to carry out tasks such as budgeting, calculating benefit entitlements and understanding rent arrears and housing options.
- Experience of working in a client-centred support service working with vulnerable people presenting significant levels of need and risk, with an ability to devise and deliver on action plans through high quality risk management and needs assessment.
- A demonstrable level of experience and/or understanding of the range of approaches appropriate to working with issues such as substance use, mental and physical ill health, dual diagnosis, challenging behaviour, risk of homelessness, offending, antisocial behaviour, social isolation, domestic violence, gang-related issues, young parents, leaving care and learning disabilities.
- Able to evidence experience of delivering on the principles underlying a quality service, which is client-focused and with a proven ability to empower clients.
- The ability to be self-motivating and manage time effectively, prioritising different areas of work according to need to ensure deadlines are met while maintaining work of a high standard.

**Our attractive benefits package includes**:

- A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
- A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 4pm) in non-accommodation services
- 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
- A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
- Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
- Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

**Closing Date**:Sunday 14th July at midnight

**Interview Date**:w/c** **Monday 22nd July

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team - please click **‘apply’ **now to become our **Floating Support Worker **-** **we'd like to hear from you
- This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant._
- Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited._