Day Centre Senior Support Worker

Salary Pt 26 to 27 - £27,974.96 - £28,840.76  

37 hours per week

https://www.digartref.co.uk/current-vaccancies 

We are currently recruiting for a Day Centre Senior Support Worker to provide maternity cover for a fixed term period of 8 months.

We are looking for someone who has the necessary skills, knowledge, and experience to:

• To ensure the provision of a 365 day per year direct access Day Centre service, for those at risk of or experiencing homelessness. To include access to food prepared on the premises, laundry, bathing facilities, housing and welfare benefit advice and support, onward referral to specialist external organisations.

• Carrying a case load, provide person centred support to service users, based on a comprehensive needs assessment and support plan, that aims to identify and address an individual’s housing related support needs.

• To provide day to day support and supervision to Day Centre Support Workers and volunteers across all aspects of their work, being responsible for inducting new staff and volunteers into their roles, ensuring the team is familiar with and work within the company’s policies and procedures as well as the overall aims of the project. Assisting the Homeless Prevention Projects Manager in staff recruitment and selection.

• To ensure cover at the service, by supporting the Homeless Prevention Projects Manager to formulate related project rotas.

• To have a flexible approach to working hours, covering a seven day a week rota including weekends. The post holder will be required to cover an On-call rota which operates across the organisation (circa every 4 weeks) for which and additional payment is made.

Ideally applicants would be expected to:

• Experience of working with homeless/ vulnerable people with complex support needs  
• Experience of staff/volunteer management

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including report writing and compilation and presentation of statistical data.
• Working knowledge of welfare benefits
• A flexible approach to working hours, on a rota system, including weekends, bank holidays, responding to emergencies, and participation in a manager out of hours on-call rota
• A full driving licence, access to your own car with business use insurance cover The ability to communicate effectively through the medium of Welsh and English, or the willingness and commitment to learn.
• The successful candidate will require an enhanced DBS check that will be processed by Digartref Cyf

Company Remuneration Package

• 5 days annual leave (rising to 28 dependent on length of service) + bank holidays.
• Training and Development opportunities
• Company pension and SHPS In Work life assurance cover (providing you meet the schemes eligibility criteria)
• Paid mileage for in work related travel at 45p per mile

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For an informal discussion with the project manager to find out more about this role, or to request an Application Form and Job Description/Person Specification please contact:

Owen Jones

01407 761653

hr@digartref.co.uk