Job Summary
Working Pattern:
Full time
Advert Start Date:
27/10/2021
Advert End Date:
Closed for applications on 07/11/2021 23:59
Salary:
£24,491 - £27,041
Job Category:
Social Care - Children Service
Employment Location:
Sunderland and area
Further Information
Housing Support Worker
Grade 5 SCP17-22
£24,491 - £27,041per annum
Your opportunity to join our ‘Outstanding’ Company and make a difference!
We are proud that Together for Children has been rated as ‘outstanding’ in a judgement by Ofsted in 2021 in recognition of the stability of our very well supported and talented workforce who deliver an unstinting commitment to improving children’s outcomes. Join us and help us in continuing our outstanding journey!
We are recruiting to our Support to Independence Team and are looking for a suitably skilled, experienced and enthusiastic individual to join the Support to Independence team, working alongside a team of Housing support workers within Together for Children’s internal supported accommodation provisions.
To work as part of a team. Working rota, Providing direct day to day supportive tasks and duties to young people, such as advice and guidance on benefit claims and employment/training opportunities. To undertake the role of link worker and develop risk assessments, undertake planned formal one to one work to ensure that individualised independent living skills of young people are progressed, to be able to live independently and maintain their own tenancy. To encourage, coach and mentor young people to engage in the support offered and learn skills that will assist them with independent living. See Job description for further details.
The role requires flexible working hours, including some weekends.
This post is exempt from the rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and therefore will be subject to a DBS check from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Closing date 7th November 2021
Please note
This job is closed for applications.