Support Worker
| Posting date: | 07 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,027.20 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 August 2025 |
| Location: | Barry, The Vale of Glamorgan |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Adferiad Recovery |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AF228 |
Summary
Adferiad Recovery delivers a flexible and coordinated response to the exceptional circumstances faced by people with co-occurring mental health and substance use conditions and related issues. Vulnerable people facing complex life challenges need consistent and seamless support to ensure they remain engaged with vital health and wellbeing services – and to prevent them becoming disenfranchised and isolated.
Hours: 30 hours per week
Salary: £25,027.20 per annum (pro rata)
Based at: Barry
Role Purpose:
The provision of specifying ‘Male applicants only’ for this vacancy is justified under the exceptions set out in the Equality Act 2010, under schedule 9, part 1: occupational Requirements. The service provided by Adferiad requires a male Floating Support Worker to achieve legitimate aims.
Adferiad provides a floating support service for individuals living in the County of Vale of Glamorgan who have long term, enduring mental illnesses who require housing-related support. The project is funded by the Vale of Glamorgan County Council Supporting Team. The focus of the project is to develop or sustain an individual’s capacity to live in their own accommodation and achieve increasing levels of independence. Adferiad staff support referred individuals with housing-related support needs either to support them to find a new home or enabling individuals to live independently in their own home.
Under the direction of the Senior Service Manager and Senior Support Worker, you will work as part of the team and lone work to deliver support to the clients, providing high quality and effective housing related support service. You will utilise person centred approaches to set goals, review and develop support plans that best meets the individual’s needs, which focusses on people’s strengths and sets goals of sustain their tenancies and live independently.
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.
Adferiad Recovery welcomes applications from everyone with the right to work in the UK, and values diversity in the workplace. All employees are required to act inclusively to encourage, promote, and cultivate our values. (Such as rights affirming and cultural diversity).
Working towards becoming a Rights Affirming organisation, we actively encourage applications from people where the Person Specification calls for a particular qualification or experience, we will consider waiving these requirements if an applicant who could not achieve them because of a disability can demonstrate he/she would be capable of performing well in the job and fulfils the criteria in other respects.
FOR MORE INFORMATION A FULL PERSON SPECIFICATION AND HOW TO APPLY, PLEASE GO TO OUR WEBSITE: https://adferiadrecovery.peoplehr.net/Pages/JobBoard/Opening.aspx?v=3d501042-9e0c-48f4-951d-f790adae95bf
If you have difficulty accessing this information or would like it in a different format, please contact our recruitment team at recruitment@adferiad.org
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