Overview
Sanctuary Supported Living is recruiting for a Bank Project Worker at our Homelessness Service, Ballingdon Street, Sudbury, Suffolk.
The role supports customers who have faced homelessness, helping them to maximise their own potential and independence, with a focus on delivering personalised housing, care and support services to enable independent living.
We are a national not-for-profit organisation that values local impact and putting customers at the heart of what we do. The work is rewarding, with 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, ensuring 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, literacy and numeracy skills
* Ability to react quickly to changing priorities while meeting deadlines and targets
* NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential
Benefits
* A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers
* Health and well-being plans
* A wide range of learning and development opportunities
Job details
Job title: Bank Project Worker
Location: Ballingdon House, 97 Ballingdon Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2BP
Salary: £13.34 per hour
Hours: Hours as and when required
Department: Health and Social Care (Qualified and Non-Qualified)
Operation: Sanctuary Supported Living
Closing date: .
Requisition: 225123
Requirements and notices
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 number of applications and reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Please apply early.
Equality, diversity and inclusion
Inclusion is one of our core values. We are committed to being a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy. We encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments during the application process in line with Sanctuary’s Disability Confident employer status.
Building Equality and Diversity: Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support an inclusive environment for employees and customers. We work with the Home Office to verify legal working status. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be required for successful applicants, and Sanctuary Supported Living will pay the fee. Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities.
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