Support Worker- Young People in Redruth TR15

Summary

Support Worker- Young People

LiveWest Posted on 2022-11-18

Salary	£22,900 – £25,400 a year
Location	Redruth TR15
Type	Permanent

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Job Description

About The Role

We are looking for a Waking Nights and Weekend Days Support Worker to join our Young Peoples Foyer based in Carn Brea on a full time basis. The role will also include some cover at Redruth Foyer – approximately 2 miles from Carn Brea.

You will be part of a well established team who work with young people resident at the Foyer. You would be expected to deal with any issues the young people may have and signpost them to the appropriate course of action.

We are committed to offering short term housing and support to young people aged 16-24 years old who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Our role is to help young people settle from often chaotic lifestyles, start doing something productive towards employment, education or training, teach them the basic life skills required to live independently and help them resolve some of the issues that brought them into supported housing in the first place.

This can be a demanding and challenging role so you will need to be resilient, robust and able to lone work and work within a team with this often chaotic client group to help them address the issues in their lives and move forward onto independence.

You will be part of a team of 4 Support Workers, working in a 4 week rolling rota, working during the nights and weekend days at the schemes focussing on security and health and safety but also providing support to young people. You will need to be prepared to work flexibly as the shift pattern will change from time to time (with appropriate notice) to ensure shifts are covered when colleagues are on leave.

For further information about this role, please click here to view our candidate information pack.

This role is being offered on a full time basis, working 37 hours per week on a rolling rota, which involves a mixture of nights and weekend working.

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 careers@livewest.co.uk.

About The Candidate

To be considered for the role of Support Worker, you will be/have:

• Knowledge of benefits and welfare.
• A good understanding of young people’s needs, safeguarding and emotional and mental health issues.
• Pride in your work.
• Positive attitude.
• Proactive approach and the confidence to support a diverse range of people.
• Able to balance your passion and commitment with good organisational skills, and the ability to maintain appropriate boundaries.

What we offer:

• Discretionary Bonus scheme
• 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
• Health Cash Plan including dental and optical cover (worth up to £1,100 per annum)
• Defined Contribution pension scheme – employer contribution of 6% – 9%
• Learning and Development including coaching and professional qualification support
• Death in Service benefit (3 x salary)
• Family Friendly policies
• 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
• Volunteering days

About The Company

LiveWest provides over 39,000 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 click here.

Company description:

At LiveWest, we believe in a home for everyone. We own and manage over 38,000 homes across the South West, from Cornwall to Gloucestershire. We have ambitious plans to invest more than £1bn in the South West economy and to build 7,500 new homes in the region over the next five years. This is part of LiveWest taking huge steps towards alleviating the region’s housing shortage, in an area of high housing need as well as high house prices which makes accessing housing particularly challenging for many families. We offer homes for affordable rent and shared ownership sale. We also build homes for private sale, to generate profits which we then use to provide and build more affordable homes. We take the time to listen to, understand and learn from our customers. We focus on thriving as a business and employer so we can deliver more homes and even better services. As well as meeting housing demand, it’s easy to forget the vital role that affordable homes contribute to economic development and prosperity, enabling local companies to recruit the workforce they need from their communities. LiveWest’s growth strategy will not only contribute to economic growth in the South West but sustain up to 7,000 jobs in the building industry and its supply chain. We were formed in March 2018 through the merger of Knightstone Housing and DCH, and since then we have built on the best of both organisations. We have recently invested in new build offices in Exeter and Tolvaddon to complement our Weston-super-Mare office, where we are also making major investment. Combined with touchdown points for our many mobile workers, our aim is to offer a contemporary working environment with an emphasis on building a shared culture. We are a member of Homes for the South West, a group of the largest developing housing associations in the south west, making the case for investment in our region.