Sanctuary Personnel, an innovative and committed recruitment agency, has a new permanent position available for a Support Worker in a residential service in Camden.
The Salary for this permanent Support Worker role is £26,037
- Support Worker
- Camden
- £26,037 per annum
The role:
We have a fantastic opportunity for someone to join us in the position of Support Officer at the Mornington Crescent Project, Camden
Your responsibilities will include:
- Create an environment that promotes opportunities for customers to develop, learn and enable skills towards independence.
- Be the key working officer for three customers and run key work sessions with them once a week.
- Provide mental health support.
- Help and support customers with them with housing benefits & universal credit..
- Run groups with customers daily, e.g., coffee mornings, walking groups and encourage customers to participate in social inclusion activities.
- Participating in activities that promote independent living, and access to training, education and work.
- Be there to empower and teach/show how to cook, maintain personal hygiene, budget, doing laundry etc.
- Carrying out assessments and support planning to identify and prioritize needs.
What you will need:
- Be compassionate, kind and be able to demonstrate a genuine interest in the mental health space
- Have experience of working with customers who have mental health conditions (desirable)
- Experience of undertaking customer assessments, support planning and key-working with a clear outcome focus.
- Ability to provide regular monitoring information as required.
- Knowledge and understanding of welfare benefits
- Understanding of safeguarding
- Strong time management skills and ability to prioritise workload
- Ability to contribute to effective team working
The Offer:
- Salary: £26037
- Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 20 days annual leave plus bank holidays.[Care (non managerial,
- nurses & hospitality staff)
- Your holidays are important to us. Take up to 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.[Care (managerial -inc Care Coordinators, Care Service Managers, General Managers etc]
- Lean travel. Spread the cost of your commute with a season ticket loans and our Cycle2Work scheme, open to all colleagues
- Get paid to do good. We offer you two days off on full pay each year to volunteer in our communities.
- Well done! With our colleague recognition programme you will know when you’ve done a #greatjob
- Learning never stops. One Academy, our innovative, in-house learning and development offering is designed to help you take your career to the next level.
- We’re here for you. Our employee assistance programme offers counselling and support for you and your family 24/7.
- Stay book-smart. Take up to five paid days off per year to study toward a relevant qualification.
- Experience new things. We offer you a career break after 3 years’ continuous service
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this as soon as possible. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
Contact:
This job is advertised by Maisy Price; if you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications within a residential or supported living setting from care home managers, deputy managers, care coordinators, key workers, childcare workers and more, as we might have other roles applicable to you.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are regretfully only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates reflects the clients that candidates will support within their roles. This very much played a significant part in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care at the Recruiter Awards, as well as being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
