Support Coordinator

Lead Support Worker

Winchester City Centre base, with some work in Eastleigh.

Permanent full time (37.5 hpw) on a rota covering 7 days 8am-8pm

Pay £12.61 to £13.36 per hour (£24,664 to £26,123 per annum) and great benefits including Health Cash Plan.

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? As our Lead Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex mental health needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

Typical day as a Lead Support Worker (known by us as Coordinator)

• Creating support plans with your customers and coordinating our small team of Support Workers working to the plans.
• Working with customers to engage and make connections within the local community.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK! 

You bring

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail.
• Experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting colleagues in working to work to the plans.
• Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.
• The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
• To get from A to B, you’ll need a vehicle insured for business purposes. The great news is that we’ll pay your mileage! 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to?external?candidates for this role. This remains under regular review 

Our team 

You’ll join Ade and Lucy and our Hampshire West Mental Health pathway team, we’re super passionate about what we do! We’re really proud of how we support customers to make their home in our incredible property in the Centre of Winchester. We’re a supportive bunch and like to share the biscuits and the opportunity to taste some incredible Jollof rice Ade has introduced us to!

Job details

• Work pattern: We have two shifts a day at 8am-4pm and 12noon to 8pm and you would be on our rota doing a mixture of these. However, we also recognise work is only a part of your life so will listen and be flexible where possible whilst also meeting the needs of our customers and ensuring the rota is covered.
• We pride ourselves on our team spirit and get together regularly [in the daytime] for training and team meetings.
• Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. Together we make Home Group a great place to work!

What’s in it for you?

• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30), the option to buy 5 more, a me day (to take off for whatever you fancy) and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10^th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.

Find out more

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