Housing Support Worker

pro rata salary £19,460.48
Basildon, Essex

The vacancy
Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Housing Support Worker (Caseworker) on a Permanent basis (30 hours) at our homeless hostel in Basildon.

At this scheme we focus our support on people who are experiencing multiple disadvantages or have had traumatic experiences. Many of them have experienced homelessness, substance misuse, involvement with the criminal justice system and mental ill health.

This scheme is supervised across 7 days, 24 hours per day.

What we’re looking for:

* Have you got the life skills and experience it takes to support our homeless customers in their journey towards independent living?

* Are you an enthusiastic support worker with a strong desire to work with vulnerable and complex adults to achieve positive outcomes?

* Can you work just as effectively as part of a team as you can by yourself?

* Do you have great IT (Word//Excel) and communication skills with a knack for creating good professional working relationships?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

A bit about the role:
As a Housing Support Worker (Caseworker), you will be working with a team of highly motivated compassionate, and dedicated colleagues supporting a caseload of adult customers who are homeless. You will need to meet with each customer weekly to help them with their goals and discuss their progress. And, when someone's ready to move on, we will rely on you to help them access the housing register or look for suitable rented accommodation.

Put simply, if you’ve ever wanted a job where you can really make a positive difference to someone’s life, this is it.

Relevant experience would be an advantage, as would an understanding of safeguarding and knowledge of the benefit system. But just as important may well be skills and knowledge which you have in other areas which you can share to foster positive experiences for our customers with energy and enthusiasm whilst being kind and empathic.

Some of the key results for the role include:

* Supporting customers to access housing.

* Helping our customers to understand housing benefits available to them.

* Ensuring our customers live in a safe and secure environment.

* Undertaking health and safety assessments.

* Completing risk assessments

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check. You must be able to work shifts across 7 days per week, early and late shifts plus sleep ins (up to 7 each month).

A bit about us:

It started over 160 years ago with one man’s desire to improve the lives of poverty-stricken Londoners.

Today, we have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties and around 20,000 care and support customers. But the desire remains the same – to create homes and communities where people can flourish.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

* Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

* Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.

* 4 x Life Assurance

* Sleep in allowance (£73.89 per sleep in)

* Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates

* Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications

* Two additional paid volunteering days each year

* Family friendly policies

* Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

Are you ready to apply?

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position of Housing Support Worker (Caseworker), please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.

Peabody reserves the right to close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.

Closing Date: 13 May 2024
Interviews to take place 20th May 2024