Support Worker – Hounslow (Female Only applicants)

Seven Social Care is looking for 4 female Support Workers in Hounslow, Sutton, Tower Hamlets and Ealing London to work within a Complex Needs Service

Paying from £11.11 per hour.

The role:

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 with the client’s range of needs via support and safety planning and aspirations assessments and through one-to one keywork sessions.
• Assist service users to attend educational, leisure and health related activities, accompanying as appropriate.
• 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.
• To assist with domestic tasks, when appropriate• Have knowledge of and follow relevant legislation, policies, and procedures.
• To take part in regular supervisions and annual appraisals and seek out and take up opportunities for continuous professional development.

Applicant Requirements:

• Experience: Knowledge of Welfare benefits, Housing and Signposting. Have a solid knowledge of safeguarding.
• Compliance: DBS (preferably on Update Service), Passport, CV
• Travel: Able to travel and visit clients in their own home
• Hours: 9 – 5 Monday to Friday

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