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Resident Welfare Officer, Barrow-in-Furness
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Job Reference:
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Posted:
25.08.2025
Expiry Date:
09.10.2025
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Job Description:
Annual salary: up to £28,917.00
Resident Welfare Officer
Covering Barrow in Furness/Workington/Carlisle
Mears Housing Management are seeking Resident Welfare Officers to support the delivery of a new service designed to enable a vulnerable client group, avoid homelessness and move into settled accommodation. Pastoral, floating support will be required to support the management and sustainment of interim accommodation and to support a pathway to settled accommodation.
The Role
Forms part of a front-line delivery team providing accommodation and support through:
1. Responsibility to assess, record and plan welfare and support needs for each client assigned to you.
2. In line with Mears' Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, delivery of welfare and support services to our service users ensuring a tailored approach to meet individual needs whilst being culturally aware and sensitive of circumstances.
3. Delivery of welfare and support services to ensure full contractual compliance and successful outcomes of all Key Performance Indicators and service delivery targets.
4. Delivery of service through signposting, direct referral, liaising with other agencies/organisations.
5. Develop and build relationships with other support and service providers within region.
6. Management and mitigation of service user well-being risk and escalation in line with policy and procedure.
7. Delivery of service to ensure safeguarding and welfare are fully considered in line with processes.
8. Maintaining boundaries and being resilient to ensure a professional and well-defined service is provided to meet the needs of the service users.
9. Working collaboratively with Housing Managers to deliver a seamless service in meeting the individual and property needs of all our service users.
10. Delivery of performance and service reporting as requested by line manager, escalating all risks and concerns to ensure full resolution.
This role does come with a Company Car, as you will be expected to travel around different locations in the North West area.
Role Criteria
This role forms part of the front line service team who are delivering to a vulnerable client group.
You will also have:
1. Demonstrable experience of working in a similar role
2. Experience of working with vulnerable and diverse client groups
3. Exposure and experience of dealing with drug misuse, homelessness, mental health, ex-offenders, trafficking
4. A qualification in support or mental health work services
5. Ability to identify individuals and family needs and recognise the required support packages to maintain independence
6. Effective communication skills with colleagues and clients
7. Ability to work under own initiative
8. You will be supportive, trustworthy, a good listener, approachable and empathetic to others by nature as well as being patient, open, able to think on your feet with a strong desire to help others
9. Full UK Driving License
About Mears
Mears currently employs around 6,000 people and provides services in every region of the UK. In partnership with our Housing clients, we maintain, repair and upgrade the homes of hundreds of thousands of people in communities from remote rural villages to large inner-city estates. Mears has extended its activities to provide broader housing solutions to solve the challenge posed by the lack of affordable housing and to provide accommodation and support for the most vulnerable.
We focus on long-term outcomes for people rather than short-term solutions and invest in innovations that have a positive impact on people's quality of life and on their communities' social, economic and environmental wellbeing. Our innovative approaches and market-leading positions are intended to create value for our customers and the people they serve while also driving sustainable financial returns for our providers of capital, especially our shareholders.
Benefits we can offer you
1. 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
2. Annual Mears Fun Day - organized as a thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
3. Volunteering Leave - supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
4. Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% on weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
5. Family friendly policies
6. Company Car, Fuel Card and Uniform
To drive a Mears vehicle, you must be over 21, have held your license for over 3 months, and have less than 9 points.
Candidates should be aware that all roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before employment. To work on this contract, you need to have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years to pass all security checks.
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