Weekly hours: 3 week rolling rota with shifts across 8am-11pm, Monday to Sunday, including bank holidays
If you have life skills, commitment and compassion, this is the role for you. Bring your experience and understanding to work with people experiencing homelessness, substance misuse, involvement with the criminal justice system or mental ill health.
Your kind and caring nature, as well as strong practical skills and life experience, will make you the ideal person to support our homeless residents on their journey towards independent living.
As a Housing Support Worker, you’ll be working with residents weekly to help them with their goals and discuss their progress. We’re working with vulnerable and complex adults, so your communication skills will be amazing, and you’ll be a dab hand at creating good professional working relationships.
This scheme is supervised across 7 days, 24 hours per day.
To be successful in this role, you’re:
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Knowledgeable of the housing support needs of vulnerable adults with mental health issues.
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Well-informed about the benefits of a flexible, outcome focussed and personalised support service.
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Enthusiastic and empathic with a desire to work with a vulnerable and complex client group.
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Proficient in literacy and have active listening and verbal communication skills.
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Self-confident using Microsoft Office word, excel and email.
Put simply, if you’ve ever wanted a job where you can really make a positive difference to someone’s life, this is it.
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:
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25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays
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Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.
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4 x Life Assurance
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Sleep in allowance
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Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications
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Two additional paid volunteering days each year
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Family friendly policies
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Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1
This role will require an Enhanced DBS check. You’ll need to be able to work shifts, early, late, including some weekends and bank holidays, plus sleep ins.
On average there are two sleep ins per week, which amounts to an additional income of up to £7,684 per year (on top of your annual salary above).
Closing date: 3 August 2024
Are you ready to apply?
Please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.
PLEASE NOTE: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Peabody are not able to offer Visa sponsorship