Job Title: Support WorkerContract Type: PermanentSalary: £26,549.63 per annum (£27,722.51 per annum is achieved after 18 months successful performance in the role)Working Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per weekWorking Pattern: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pmLocation: SwindonIf you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter. At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.The difference you will make as a Support Worker at our Swindon Young Parents ServiceThe Swindon Young Parents service is split across two sites: one in Toothill and one in Pinehurst. We provided strength-based and trauma-informed support to customers aged 16-25 who have become or are about to become young parents. The housing-related support we offer focuses on developing skills in customers so they will become ready to live independently in their own home. The Support Workers have a regular caseload of their own customers but provide broader support to all customers in the service and travel to both sites may be necessary. They provide both 1-2-1 support and run larger group activities with a focus on maintaining their homes, tenancies, providing for their families and being good neighbours and tenants. In addition to support tasks like multi-agency liaison and advocacy; the Support Workers at the scheme take a lead on ensuring safe homes are provided to our customers and will support customers to raise repairs, keep on top of their rent and service charge, and monitor for Health and Safety issues around the sites.Please note this role does not include personal careAbout youWe are looking for someone with:

Experience of working with vulnerable people
Experience of delivering structured support and risk management
To be a team player with a caring and empathetic nature with a resilient, can-do attitude, able to work as part of a team
An understanding of supporting vulnerable people – this could include having your own lived experience of homelessness or drug or alcohol addiction.
Ability to work flexible hours to meet customer and business needs, which may not include normal office hours and may include lone working

Why Riverside?At Riverside, we’re a housing association with a difference – enhancing the everyday for all our customers. For 90 years, we’ve been revitalising neighbourhoods and supporting communities by providing the homes they need to live full, fulfilling and rewarding lives. We have a portfolio of over 75,000 affordable residential and retirement homes across the UK. Our work ranges from homelessness services to social care, employment support to retirement living, and we need the best people on board to help us.Working with us, you’ll enjoy:

Competitive pay & generous pension
28 days holidays plus bank holidays (pro rata)
Flexible working options available
Investment in your learning, personal development and technology
A wide range of benefits

Diversity and Inclusion at Riverside:We are inclusive. At Riverside, we value diversity in all its forms. We foster a workplace where all individuals are respected, empowered, and heard. Our commitment to inclusivity drives our success and enriches the lives of our customers and colleagues. Applications may close before the deadline, so please apply early to be considered. Role ProfileRole requires you to:

We use Psychologically Informed approaches and Trauma Informed Care principles to support our customers to develop new ways of thinking and to make steps towards independence, by:

Leading on Co-producing bespoke support and move-on plans, involving key stakeholders (e.g. family/other support providers), where appropriate.
Organising and carrying out regular planned reviews of support and risk plans, or following an incident/significant change in a customer’s circumstances.
Engaging customers to meet agreed outcomes and develop life skills.
Assisting customers with day-to-day support and tenancy-related matters.
Identifying and promoting opportunities for employment, education and training and supporting customers to remove barriers to accessing these opportunities.
Signposting customers to appropriate external support services, including interventions such as food banks and other community resources.
Supporting customers to be ‘tenancy ready’ to enable successful move on.
Supporting customers to be financially independent through budgeting plans and maximising income.
Supporting and monitoring customers’ healthcare needs, ensuring appropriate contact with healthcare professionals.
Empowering customers to move towards self-management of their medication by following the medication procedure.
Leading on support initiatives including Group Work.
Ensure the safety of our customers by following local safeguarding procedures, recognizing and acting on any significant risk, and escalating appropriately.
Record and update clear, factual, accurate, strengths based customer information on the local or appropriate digital platform.

Service Delivery:

Facilitate the referral process into the service and assess potential new customers.

Contribute to the delivery of a housing management service, including income collection and providing customers with tenancy-related support. Work with customers to maintain a safe environment by reporting repairs and health...

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