Overview
Sanctuary Supported Living is recruiting for a Project Worker at Homelessness Service, Sach Road, London. The role offers £14.67 per hour. Requisition: 226118.
Sanctuary Supported Living delivers a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England live as independently as possible. We are a national not-for-profit organisation committed to putting customers at the heart of what we do and supporting them on their pathways to independence.
We reward dedication and provide opportunities for training and career development.
Responsibilities
* Providing support to encourage customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence
* Assessing customers’ needs by writing and updating support plans
* Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries
* Developing relationships with customers while ensuring personal choice, privacy and dignity
* Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health and wellbeing and to offer training and encouragement towards employment and education
* Handling occasional emergency situations
* Keeping accurate and high-quality written records
Skills and experience
* Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness
* Enthusiastic, flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
* Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
* Strong organisational skills and functional literacy and numeracy
* Ability to react quickly to changing priorities while working to deadlines and targets
* NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards it
Benefits
* At least 25 days paid holiday, rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service (plus public holidays)
* A pension scheme with employer contributions
* A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
* Health and well-being plans
* Life assurance
* Family friendly arrangements, including opportunities for flexible working
* Tax efficient savings through the Cycle to Work scheme
* A wide range of learning and development opportunities
Job Reference: 226118
We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK.
If you are applying internally, please use your internal careers account to submit your application.
We may receive a high volume of applications, so we reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Please apply early.
Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We encourage applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission and will make adjustments throughout the application process in line with Sanctuary’s Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to an inclusive environment for employees and customers. We work with the Home Office to ensure legal working requirements are met. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary for successful applicants, which Sanctuary will pay for. Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.
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