Support Worker

**Job Summary**

**Salary**: £32,434 per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week

Locations are either:
Robertson Street - Clapham

Lambeth High Street - Lambeth

Martha Jones House - Vauxhall

Contract:
Robertson Street - Permanent

Lambeth High Street - Permanent

Martha Jones House - Fixed term until 30/06/2025

Closing date: 19/01/2025

Interview date: 27/01/2025

Whatever your experience of street homelessness and its impact on people’s lives - personal or professional - when you join the Thames Reach team as a Support Worker, we’ll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion and commitment

About us

Thames Reach runs projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We work to prevent vulnerable people from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people find work and access training and volunteering opportunities.

Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more then 12,000 people.

Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We’re listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There’s no better place to develop or transfer your skills and build a fulfilling career.

About this role

We are looking for Support Workers to join either one of our hostel teams.

Thames Reach’s hostels are transitional spaces where a 24 hour staff team support people to move in, assess their needs, and quickly identify the best place for them to move on to next. Skilled staff teams develop personalised support plans to ensure people are ready to move on and are accessing support with their health, substance misuse, criminal justice and life skills needs

You will:

- Contribute to effective day-to-day service delivery.
- Conduct Risk Assessments, Needs Assessments and move-on plans with clients in the service.
- Liaise with external agencies and councils to ensure clients are receiving appropriate support.
- Increase numbers of client engagements and moving out within a set timeframe
- Ensure the environment is safe, healthy, and reflective of our ethos and supports our client’s aims.
- Be outcome focussed, fostering a culture of high performance and continual improvement on your and the team’s successes.

**You will be**:

- Outcome focussed.
- Organised and efficient in your work
- Excellent at communicating and problem solving.
- Confident in supporting clients and engage with a range of partners.
- Increase numbers of clients moving out within a set timeframe
- Committed to developing your knowledge and skills.

We are listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2023 in the UK. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:

- Generous holiday allowance - 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata).
- Pension - we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%.
- Excellent development opportunities - career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach.
- Wellbeing support - our 24/7 employee assistance programme and opportunities for TOIL.
- Life assurance - four times your annual salary and critical illness cover.
- Other benefits including a blue light discount card, interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans.

Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We value, respect, and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all sections of the community regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religious belief.

**Job Profile**

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**Location**

South London