Relief Support Worker
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £12.71 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Weston-super-Mare, South West, BS23 1YA |
| Company: | Salvation Army Housing Association (saha) |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 52660256 |
Summary
About The Role
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is attracted to covering occasional shifts on a casual basis or for short term periods in our supported housing service in North Somerset.
At saha we are dedicated to providing comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement. The Relief Support Worker will work with people who are or have recently experienced homelessness and who are in need of support and accommodation. As a relief support worker you will need to:
- Get to know and build the trust of our clients
- Unlock our clients’ potential to live independently
- Enhance their social integration by encouraging participation in social and leisure programmes,
Help residents with their support needs and with the practicalities of everyday living
About The Candidate
Working in a way that aligns with our Values and Behaviours will come naturally to you. We also need you to have energy and passion, along with a positive, can do attitude in your daily contribution to transforming lives.
You will need to :
- Be a confident and capable communicator
- Be able to build trusting, professional relationships
- Be able to help people to develop their skills, strengths and talents.
- Have good knowledge or experience of working with homeless people, and / or supporting vulnerable people or groups,
- Ideally participate in our on call rota as required, when engaged
About The Company
A registered social landlord and one of the leading providers of supported housing in the UK, Saha is dedicated to transforming lives by providing accommodation and support for some of the most vulnerable members of society - mainly people with complex needs and/or experiencing homelessness.
Our aim is to work with individuals to build on their strengths, creating person centred, individualised strategies and plans that transform lives, support recovery and enable positive behaviour. In order to succeed, however, we need the right people in place. Our workforce is one of our greatest assets, but only by recruiting the very best can we continue to deliver comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement. services to our residents. That’s where you come in.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, Saha is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We invite and welcome applications to apply for Saha opportunities without concern of bias or discrimination.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is attracted to covering occasional shifts on a casual basis or for short term periods in our supported housing service in North Somerset.
At saha we are dedicated to providing comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement. The Relief Support Worker will work with people who are or have recently experienced homelessness and who are in need of support and accommodation. As a relief support worker you will need to:
- Get to know and build the trust of our clients
- Unlock our clients’ potential to live independently
- Enhance their social integration by encouraging participation in social and leisure programmes,
Help residents with their support needs and with the practicalities of everyday living
About The Candidate
Working in a way that aligns with our Values and Behaviours will come naturally to you. We also need you to have energy and passion, along with a positive, can do attitude in your daily contribution to transforming lives.
You will need to :
- Be a confident and capable communicator
- Be able to build trusting, professional relationships
- Be able to help people to develop their skills, strengths and talents.
- Have good knowledge or experience of working with homeless people, and / or supporting vulnerable people or groups,
- Ideally participate in our on call rota as required, when engaged
About The Company
A registered social landlord and one of the leading providers of supported housing in the UK, Saha is dedicated to transforming lives by providing accommodation and support for some of the most vulnerable members of society - mainly people with complex needs and/or experiencing homelessness.
Our aim is to work with individuals to build on their strengths, creating person centred, individualised strategies and plans that transform lives, support recovery and enable positive behaviour. In order to succeed, however, we need the right people in place. Our workforce is one of our greatest assets, but only by recruiting the very best can we continue to deliver comprehensive, good quality housing services, support and resettlement. services to our residents. That’s where you come in.
As an equal opportunities’ employer, Saha is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We invite and welcome applications to apply for Saha opportunities without concern of bias or discrimination.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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