Job title and location
Project Worker — Sach Road, London, E5
£14.67 per hour
Sanctuary Supported Living is recruiting for a Project Worker at Homelessness Service, Sach Road, London.
Sanctuary Supported Living specialises in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible. We are a not-for-profit national organisation that focuses on local impact and putting customers at the heart of what we do. Our aim is to support customers on their pathways to independence.
Whether you are delivering frontline support or working in our offices to support frontline teams, your work makes a difference every day. Working with us is rewarding and offers opportunities for training and 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, ensuring they maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity
* Liaising with external support links to improve customers’ confidence, health and wellbeing and 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 and flexible with a strong “can-do” attitude
* Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative
* Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy
* Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets
* NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential
Benefits and additional information
* 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 our Cycle to Work scheme
* A wide range of learning and development opportunities
Job Reference: 226118
We are only accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK. If applying internally, use your internal careers account to submit your application.
We may receive a high number of applications and reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Please apply early.
Inclusion is one of our core values. We are a diverse, inclusive organisation and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. We can make adjustments during the application process in line with Sanctuary’s Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity
Sanctuary Group encourages applications from people of diverse backgrounds to support an inclusive environment for employees and customers. We work with the Home Office to prevent illegal working. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required 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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