Approved Premises Night Support Worker
| Posting date: | 17 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,126 plus pension & excellent benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 July 2024 |
| Location: | Bradford, BD8 0AQ |
| Company: | Langley House Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | c24f3712-2196-4b9b-9a6b-d099cf231c43 |
Summary
Langley has a fantastic opportunity for an organised, creative, and client focussed Approved Premises Night Support Worker with good communication and interpersonal skills to join our busy and friendly team in Bradford. This role is a permanent full time role working 40 hours per week. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £27,126 per annum.
REWARDS PACKAGE
· SmartHealth – free online GP service 24/7.
· Up to 30 days annual leave (after 2 years’ service)
· Pension scheme, matched up to 8%
· Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
· Eyecare vouchers
· Flu vaccine vouchers
· Paid DBS and renewals
· Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
· Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice
· Chaplaincy and pastoral support
· Funded Health Cash Plan
· Flexible benefits package, including Holiday Trading and Cycle Scheme - can be tailored to meet your individual needs
· Menopause support
· Enhanced Maternity Pay
· Access to Blue Light Card discounts
· Long Service Awards
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
· Effectively communicate key risk issues to colleagues at handover and throughout the shift. It will also, at times, require communicating with Probation
Practitioners, On Call Manager and partner agencies e.g. Police, Health professionals and drug/alcohol services.
· Undertake regular inspections of the building, including cellars and grounds throughout the period of duty, recording any occurrences/damage or defects,
and monitor CCTV equipment.
· Maintain an active presence in the AP at all times. Regularly engage with residents in a pro-social manner. Contribute towards the protection of the
residents through observation to ensure adherence to their risk management plans and general wellbeing.
· Actively engage with and monitor behaviour of high risk residents and motivate residents to ensure compliance. Challenge and manage appropriately
abusive or aggressive behaviour.
· Contribute to the risk management plans of residents by observing and reporting any significant changes relating to risk and/or re-offending to any non-
compliance within agreed enforcement procedures.
· Ensure that the AP is locked and secure during curfew period. Confirm the presence and wellbeing of all residents overnight.
· Through observation and/or engagement with residents, provide accurate information, analysis of situation and risk assessment to the Offender Manager
and/or escalate to Out of Hours Manager, which may lead to enforcement and/or compliance with court orders, licences, AP rules.
Please copy and paste this link into your browser to view the full job description: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lgcEk7I_qcqwlf50v-naCm7219YJ4okk/view?usp=drive_link. If you want to join our team as our Approved Premises Night Support Worker, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 25th July 2024
About Box Tree Cottage
Box Tree Independent Approved Premises is primarily for offenders who have been released on licence and who require a high level of supervision.
We play a crucial role in supporting the management of offenders in their transition from custody into the community, to achieve successful resettlement. We assist with the well-being and supervision of Approved Premises residents, helping them to adhere to their license conditions and supporting them to keep themselves and others safe. We regularly carry out inspections, monitor behaviour and positively engage with residents, working closely with colleagues and partner agencies.
About LANGLEY TRUST
For over 65 years Langley Trust has been supporting people with convictions to transform their lives. As a Christian charity working across England, we believe everyone deserves another chance. With a wide range of services – including complex needs care, supported housing, and specialist advice services – our work prevents crime, promotes rehabilitation, and reduces the risks of re-offending.
Diversity and Inclusion is integral to Langley Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Level 2 Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.
We're proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.
If you want to join our team, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
A satisfactory Enhanced DBS check and BPSS Vetting is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.