Company:
Single Homeless Project
Location: Islington
Closing Date: 19/10/2024
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description
Single Homeless Project has an opportunity for a Project Worker Complex Needs to join our experienced and committed teams based in Islington. You will join us on a full time, permanent basis and in return, you will receive a competitive salary starting at £28,247.60 and rising incrementally to £30,342.85 per annum.
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
About the Project Worker Complex Needs role:
SHP’s aim is to improve outcomes for service users both within the service and by enhancing their ability to utilise external specialist, statutory and community services.
The support you provide will ensure that clients are able to:
Access and sustain their accommodation within our services
Access and feel safe in engaging with specialist support in relation to their needs (i.e., substance use, health, mental health, complex trauma, offending, street activity}
Access primary health care, and improving their wellbeing and process of recovery.
Access work, training, and other opportunities,
Be supported by, and be active in, their community
Develop and maintain positive personal relationships
You will be part of a dynamic team in a hostel setting, holding a caseload of clients with the opportunity to draw on specialist roles within the team, the organisation more broadly, and working in tandem with specialist external agencies. Your ability to forge meaningful relationships will provide the basis of the work to empower your clients, helping them to engage with a range of community resources and build a robust network of support.
About you:
Ability to maintain motivation for a high level of contact with clients on a day-to-day basis.
A non-judgemental approach to working with multi-disadvantaged / complex needs clients and to promote a strengths-based approach.
Familiarity with IT applications and basic keyboard skills and the ability to maintain accurate records and manage own administrative tasks.
Strong team-working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a collaborative approach to delivering service objectives across work specialisms.
Strong time management skills, ability to work on own initiative, manage competing priorities and maintain high standards.
Be expected to operate primarily in your supported accommodation service, as well as some off site work duties; to facilitate client appointments and conduct professional meetings.
Willingness and ability to work on a rota system of early and late shifts, which may include some variable hours including some evenings and weekends.
Understanding of professional boundaries and their importance when delivering trauma informed support.
Our attractive benefits package includes:
A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work
Closing Date: Sunday 20th October at midnight
Interview Date: Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October via Microsoft Teams
Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team – please click ‘apply’ now to become our Project Worker Complex Needs - we'd like to hear from you!
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.
Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.
We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited
Single Homeless Project is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.
We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.
About the Project Worker Complex Needs role:
SHP’s aim is to improve outcomes for service users both within the service and by enhancing their ability to utilise external specialist, statutory and community services.
The support you provide will ensure that clients are able to:
Access and sustain their accommodation within our services
Access and feel safe in engaging with specialist support in relation to their needs (i.e., substance use, health, mental health, complex trauma, offending, street activity}
Access primary health care, and improving their wellbeing and process of recovery.
Access work, training, and other opportunities,
Be supported by, and be active in, their community
Develop and maintain positive personal relationships
You will be part of a dynamic team in a hostel setting, holding a caseload of clients with the opportunity to draw on specialist roles within the team, the organisation more broadly, and working in tandem with specialist external agencies. Your ability to forge meaningful relationships will provide the basis of the work to empower your clients, helping them to engage with a range of community resources and build a robust network of support.
About you:
Ability to maintain motivation for a high level of contact with clients on a day-to-day basis.
A non-judgemental approach to working with multi-disadvantaged / complex needs clients and to promote a strengths-based approach.
Familiarity with IT applications and basic keyboard skills and the ability to maintain accurate records and manage own administrative tasks.
Strong team-working and interpersonal skills, maintaining a collaborative approach to delivering service objectives across work specialisms.
Strong time management skills, ability to work on own initiative, manage competing priorities and maintain high standards.
Be expected to operate primarily in your supported accommodation service, as well as some off site work duties; to facilitate client appointments and conduct professional meetings.
Willingness and ability to work on a rota system of early and late shifts, which may include some variable hours including some evenings and weekends.
Understanding of professional boundaries and their importance when delivering trauma informed support.
Our attractive benefits package includes:
A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am – 4pm) in non-accommodation services
25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work
Closing Date: Sunday 20th October at midnight
Interview Date: Monday 28th and Tuesday 29th October via Microsoft Teams
Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team – please click ‘apply’ now to become our Project Worker Complex Needs - we'd like to hear from you!
This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.
Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces.
We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited
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