Accommodation Support Worker
| Posting date: | 20 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,770 per annum plus pension and excellent benefits |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 July 2024 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV3 4AJ |
| Company: | Langley House Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 80587407-d9f7-4fb7-b4ec-9ebb369b157f |
Summary
Are you a natural Accommodation Support Worker with strong people skills? Keen to make a positive difference to people’s lives?
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and compassionate Accommodation Support Worker working a minimum of 40 hours per week (some of which will be unsocial) to join our team based at our hostel Service in Coventry on a permanent basis. Murray Lodge is a hostel that provides housing and tenancy services for male ex offenders. This post may include some travel and overnight stops can be expected. You will also be included in the on-call rota outside of shift hours. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £24,770 per annum plus excellent benefits. Langley Trust gives you support and free training to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day.
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
· To key work and support clients generally within your project, and to act as the Key Worker to designated clients as required.
· To take an active role in the assessment and management of risk including the operation of physical and situational security measures to control the level of risk posed to the client, the public, staff and other clients and liaising with other stakeholders as appropriate.
· To maintain a clear and calm manner whilst managing client risk through assessment, planning, client knowledge and de-escalation as required.
· To provide, through prompting and/or assisting with, personal care to identified clients. To write Care Plans for clients and to implement a Care Plan. To keep health related records for clients as necessary.
· To regularly fully utilise the Trust ‘Client File’ with designated clients to ensure that they are supported and empowered to achieve appropriate outcomes.
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About Murray Lodge
Murray Lodge is a hostel that provides housing and tenancy services for male ex-offenders based in Coventry. Murray Lodge provides a sign posting service for men to access specialist support in the community e.g. for substance misuse and mental health. The service offers accommodation to a diverse client base with low needs, who are supported by a strong multi-disciplinary housing team.
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.
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 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.
Closing date: 17th July 2024