Support Worker

Peter Knight Recruitment ,
London, Greater London
Salary: £10.55 per hour

Overview

My charity client provides support services to the vulnerable in our society, this includes supporting adults with complex and often multiple needs. They now require an experienced support worker to assist their busy team. Your main role will be to provide good quality housing related support to service users with a range of needs in line with client led actions identified in their support plans, and with organisational policies and procedures. Key responsibilities: • To deliver housing related support to adults with a range of needs, to understand their strengths and build on these to help clients meet their aspirations in a range of areas of interest and value to the individual. • Improve each client’s quality of life; prevent homelessness through promoting or maintaining independent living skills and appropriate move on. • Provide relevant support in accordance to the client’s range of needs via support and safety planning and aspirations assessments and through one-toone keyworksessions. • To maintain accurate service users’ records and all other records relating to the upkeep and maintenance of the service.This includes electronic based records on our organisational system. • To carry our Housing Management functions including the collection and management of rent, reporting of repairs and managing the beginning and end of tenancies/licences at the schemes. • Encourage and promote effective multi-agency working to ensure that the risks of services users are mitigated and that the needs and aspirations of service users are met to a high standard, including establishing close contacts with various communities, statutory and voluntary organisations. • Have knowledge of and follow relevant legislation, policies and procedures. Location – Various locations across London and surrounding areas. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89945234