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About The Role
Are you looking for a varied Support role? Are you prepared to go the extra mile to ensure a positive outcome for your clients? Are you motivated to make a positive change to the lives of the people we work with? If so, we really want to hear from you.
As a Support Worker providing Housing Related Support in our accommodation based Learning Disability Team, you will be providing support to persons at two of our Learning Disability Schemes in South Gloucestershire and assisting colleagues at two others. Your role will be to support LiveWest customers in maintaining their tenancies, ensuring that the live safely and making the best of their homes.
As part of your role you will support people to:
This commissioned role is varied and will involve you working with our Housing Officer and individual Support Workers from other providers, to ensure that the best service and accommodation we can provide is achieved.
This role is being offered on a full time, 4 month fixed term basis as maternity cover. You will be working 37 hours per week to include occasional Saturday working (Any weekend hours worked can be taken back during the week.) Bandwidth hours will be 8am to 6pm.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointment to the post will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy, please contact our Resourcing team on 01392 814 599 or email .
About The Candidate
To be considered for the role of Support Worker - Learning Disabilities, you will be / have:
Our Reward and Benefits:
LiveWest provides over 40,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.
As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.
As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please visit our website.
Are you looking for a varied Support role? Are you prepared to go the extra mile to ensure a positive outcome for your clients? Are you motivated to make a positive change to the lives of the people we work with? If so, we really want to hear from you.
As a Support Worker providing Housing Related Support in our accommodation based Learning Disability Team, you will be providing support to persons at two of our Learning Disability Schemes in South Gloucestershire and assisting colleagues at two others. Your role will be to support LiveWest customers in maintaining their tenancies, ensuring that the live safely and making the best of their homes.
As part of your role you will support people to:
- Pay their rent.
- Deal with low level anti-social behaviour.
- Organise activities to help build relationships with their neighbours.
- Manage their tenancies.
- Help improve their environment.
- You will also be a point of contact, ensuring a smooth running of the schemes. A key part of the role will be forming professional relationships with the customers and signposting to other services where we are not able to assist them.
This commissioned role is varied and will involve you working with our Housing Officer and individual Support Workers from other providers, to ensure that the best service and accommodation we can provide is achieved.
This role is being offered on a full time, 4 month fixed term basis as maternity cover. You will be working 37 hours per week to include occasional Saturday working (Any weekend hours worked can be taken back during the week.) Bandwidth hours will be 8am to 6pm.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable groups, and expect all colleagues to share this commitment. Appointment to the post will be subject to a satisfactory enhanced check via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
If you would like to discuss this vacancy, please contact our Resourcing team on 01392 814 599 or email .
About The Candidate
To be considered for the role of Support Worker - Learning Disabilities, you will be / have:
- Be able to understand and communicate effectively with individuals with varying levels of need relating to their learning disabilities.
- Work effectively with colleagues in coordinating and delivering services.
- Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Have good IT skills.
- Full valid UK driving licence and access to a suitable vehicle.
- Be able to maintain effective electronic records and monitoring agreed action plans.
- Have the ability to establish an effective working relationship with LD clients (demonstrating understanding of the challenges faced).
- Maintain positive relationships with internal and external partners.
- Be able to plan and manage workload, lone work safety and work as part of a team.
- Clear understanding of diversity within a role dealing with vulnerable people.
- Have the ability to promote independence and self-determination with individuals.
- Have the ability to create creative and constructive relationships with individuals.
- Confident in dealing with a wide range of people, able to read and assess difficult situations and provide solutions.
- Ability to positively respond to change and a willingness to work flexibly; with different clients/colleagues and outside normal office hours to meet the needs of the clients
- Be able to keep records including the creation and knowledge of what housing support is and the issues that people are facing. (D)
- Understanding of training, employment, educational opportunities or social activities. (D)
- Previous experience of working with vulnerable individuals. (D)
- Knowledge and understanding of housing related support. (D)
- Knowledge of the housing/benefits system. (D)
- Experience of working in social housing. (D)
- All criteria is to be considered as essential, unless indicated as desirable. (D)
Our Reward and Benefits:
- Defined Contribution pension scheme – employer contribution of 6% - 9%.
- Discretionary Bonus scheme.
- Death in Service benefit (3 x salary).
- 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays with service related increase to your entitlement up to 30 days plus an option to purchase extra annual leave.
- Family Friendly policies.
- Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum).
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health and Wellbeing programme which includes enhanced sick pay, monthly campaigns, training and yearly flu jabs.
- Cycle to Work scheme.
- Car Benefit scheme.
- Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support.
- Volunteering days.
LiveWest provides over 40,000 homes to over 80,000 people throughout the South West from Gloucestershire to the Isles of Scilly. We have plans to build over 6,000 homes in the area over the next five years, developing new homes of all tenures including low-cost rent and sale, market rent and sale, and a range of supported housing and intermediate housing products, creating choice and flexibility.
As well as developing new homes, we continue to invest in existing properties and communities. Through the stability of good housing, we place better living for better lives at the centre of our mission both today and for generations to come. At LiveWest we believe in a home for everyone.
As an Inclusive Employer, we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues. For further information about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policy, please visit our website.
