Support Worker Sedgefield Mental Health Supported Accommodation, West Cornforth Fixed Term, 12 months - Full Time (37.5 hpw) £24,638 per annum Home, a place where you belong Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex mental health needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know! Typical day as our Support Worker Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans. Customer group - mental health, supporting people to get to a place with tenancy management where they are able to move on to independent living. Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able. Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews. Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too. Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the Top Ten Great Places to Work in the UK! You bring Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage! Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review Our team You’ll join Gemma and our Sedgefield mental health accommodation team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of supporting our customers to develop skills to be able to leave supported accommodation and move into their own independent tenancies when they leave us. We’re a supportive bunch and like to have a sing song in the project and get involved with customer activities! Job details Working on a rota - 37.5 hours over 7 days per week Working pattern 08:00-16:00 / 12:00-20:00 / 13:15-21:15 (concierge covers the waking nights) Occasionally our customers' needs mean your start and finish times may change. Where we ask you to be flexible, we will always try to reciprocate Confident using technology for plans, online learning and teamwork You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that. A place where you belong Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work ! What’s in it for you? 34 days leave, pro-rated (including bank holidays and a “me day”) Paid time off for volunteering Matching Pension contributions (up to 7%, with life assurance of 3x Basic Salary) Save up to £1140 yearly with our health cash plan, covering dental, optical, and therapies Career path with development and an excellent training package Excellent benefits and rewards including supermarket discounts and travel expenses Colleagues really matter to us, that’s why we’re the 10 th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them. Find out more Click APPLY NOW to see our Support Worker Job Description, find out about us and for help to apply. S ometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. Sometimes we close a job early, so don’t delay or you might miss out. You can even learn more about our benefits on our website. Finally, do let us know if there’s anything we can do, to help you shine in our process by making reasonable adjustments at recruitment@homegroup.org.uk