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Role: Support Worker – Acre Lane / Robertson Street hostels
| Posting date: | 14 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | £30,859 per year |
| Additional salary information: | We contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5% and offer 29 days annual leave. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 24 March 2024 |
| Location: | Brixton, South West London |
| Company: | Thames Reach |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | SWH - 0324 |
Summary
Role: Support Worker – Acre Lane / Robertson Street hostels
Salary: £30,859 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Location: Brixton / Clapham - London
Closing date: 24/03/2024
Interview date: 03/04/2024
Whatever your experience in homelessness and its impact on people’s lives – personal or professional – when you join the Thames Reach team as a Support Worker, we’ll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion and commitment.
About us…
At Thames Reach we run projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We support vulnerable people to prevent them from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people gain independence, through finding work, accessing training and engaging in volunteering opportunities.
Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more than 11,000 people.
Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We’ve been listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There’s no better place to develop and apply your skills while building a fulfilling career.
About this role…
Thames Reach’s hostels are transitional spaces where a 24 hour staff team support people to move in, assess their needs, and quickly identify the best place for them to move on to next. Skilled staff teams develop a personalised support plan to ensure people are ready for their move on and have holistic support with their mental and physical health, substance misuse needs, criminal justice issues and life skills.
Thames Reach welcomes applications from people with transferable skills.
We are looking for Support Workers to join two of our hostel teams, Acre Lane and Robertson Street.
As a Support Worker, you will:
You will:
- Conduct Risk Assessments, Needs
- Assessments and Support Plans with clients in the service.
- Liaise with external agencies and councils to ensure clients are receiving appropriate support.
- Support and encourage clients to become more independent.
- Support our clients’ aims and help them to move on from the hostel within set timeframes.
- Ensure the environment is safe, healthy, reflective of our ethos and supports our client’s aims.
- Be outcome focussed, fostering a culture of high performance and continual improvement on your and the team’s successes.
To succeed as a Support Worker, you will be:
- Solution and outcome focussed with a commitment to supporting people to achieve the best outcomes as they work towards independence
- Organised and efficient in your work.
- Excellent at communicating and problem solving.
- Confident in your ability to support clients.
- Competent at using a computer and a range of software packages
- Committed to developing your knowledge and skills
We were listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2023. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance – 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
- Pension – we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%
- Excellent development opportunities – career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach
- Wellbeing support – our 24/7 employee assistance programme
- Life assurance – four times your annual salary and critical illness cover
- Other benefits including interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans
Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve, and we value, respect and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religious belief.
To apply visit our website and complete our application form.
For further information please contact, Gareth Bowen at Gareth.bowen@thamesreach.org.uk
Thames Reach is committed to safeguarding. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening appropriate to the post, including, but not limited to checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Having a criminal record will not exclude you from applying but you will be asked to provide further details as most posts are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Salary: £30,859 per annum
Hours: 37.5 per week
Location: Brixton / Clapham - London
Closing date: 24/03/2024
Interview date: 03/04/2024
Whatever your experience in homelessness and its impact on people’s lives – personal or professional – when you join the Thames Reach team as a Support Worker, we’ll make the best use of all your understanding, compassion and commitment.
About us…
At Thames Reach we run projects and services that help to end homelessness in London. We work directly with homeless people on the streets and in hostels. We support vulnerable people to prevent them from becoming homeless. We help formerly homeless people get their lives back on track. We help people gain independence, through finding work, accessing training and engaging in volunteering opportunities.
Is our mission easy? No, but we never give up on people. Last year we helped more than 11,000 people.
Is our work rewarding? Yes, in every sense. We’ve been listed as one of the top 100 Best Workplaces in the UK. There’s no better place to develop and apply your skills while building a fulfilling career.
About this role…
Thames Reach’s hostels are transitional spaces where a 24 hour staff team support people to move in, assess their needs, and quickly identify the best place for them to move on to next. Skilled staff teams develop a personalised support plan to ensure people are ready for their move on and have holistic support with their mental and physical health, substance misuse needs, criminal justice issues and life skills.
Thames Reach welcomes applications from people with transferable skills.
We are looking for Support Workers to join two of our hostel teams, Acre Lane and Robertson Street.
As a Support Worker, you will:
You will:
- Conduct Risk Assessments, Needs
- Assessments and Support Plans with clients in the service.
- Liaise with external agencies and councils to ensure clients are receiving appropriate support.
- Support and encourage clients to become more independent.
- Support our clients’ aims and help them to move on from the hostel within set timeframes.
- Ensure the environment is safe, healthy, reflective of our ethos and supports our client’s aims.
- Be outcome focussed, fostering a culture of high performance and continual improvement on your and the team’s successes.
To succeed as a Support Worker, you will be:
- Solution and outcome focussed with a commitment to supporting people to achieve the best outcomes as they work towards independence
- Organised and efficient in your work.
- Excellent at communicating and problem solving.
- Confident in your ability to support clients.
- Competent at using a computer and a range of software packages
- Committed to developing your knowledge and skills
We were listed in the top 100 UK Best Workplaces 2023. As part of a commitment to our employees we offer:
- Generous holiday allowance – 29 days per year plus 8 public holidays (pro rata)
- Pension – we contribute 6.5% to your pension when you contribute 1.5%
- Excellent development opportunities – career progression, regular supervision and appraisals, and learning programmes to support your career with Thames Reach
- Wellbeing support – our 24/7 employee assistance programme
- Life assurance – four times your annual salary and critical illness cover
- Other benefits including interest free season ticket and cycle to work loans
Thames Reach is committed to achieving a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve, and we value, respect and celebrate diversity. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds regardless of their history of homelessness, sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation or religious belief.
To apply visit our website and complete our application form.
For further information please contact, Gareth Bowen at Gareth.bowen@thamesreach.org.uk
Thames Reach is committed to safeguarding. Applicants must be willing to undergo pre-employment screening appropriate to the post, including, but not limited to checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service. Having a criminal record will not exclude you from applying but you will be asked to provide further details as most posts are considered exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
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