Project Worker - Young People & Parents

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Job description

Job details
Posting date: 15 November 2021
Salary: £21,927 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 15 December 2021
Location: Bramlings House, Newbury
Company: A2Dominion
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: req1920

Summary
A2Dominion is a housing provider with a social purpose to improve people's lives. We're one of the UK's leading care and support providers.

Join our team to help people live safe, happy, and independent lives. We'll provide you with a competitive package for our sector, and whether this is your first job in care, or you have experience, we would like to hear from you. In return for your skills, experience, and motivation to help others you will receive a competitive benefits package - for further details on what this could mean for you, scroll to the bottom of this advert to learn more.

This is an opportunity to make a difference to be part of something special

Bramlings House is a supported housing scheme for vulnerable young people, including young parents. There are support staff available 24 hours a day. We have 12 single en-suite rooms, which share a lounge and kitchen, and 13 self-contained 1-bedroom apartments. Eight of these are reserved for young parents.

In this role, you will identify and deliver flexible housing related support to service users to enable them to develop independent skills in order to move on to their own accommodation.

More about the role:

· Assess all new tenants and allocate beds according to procedures.

· Provide information and advice to service users in order to assist them in establishing and maintaining their tenancy.

· Ensure room checks and housekeeping void procedures are followed and that voids are kept to a minimum.

· Ensure that tenancy/license is upheld.

· Carry out risk assessments as necessary, liaising with other agencies where appropriate.

· Promote user participation by providing information and advice choices to enable residents to participate more fully in decisions relating to them.

· Carry out designated H&S checks and facilities management of the building and liaise with internal departments This role will require working alone more often than not so discipline and self-motivation is key.

· All staff will also be expected to take part in an On-Call rota.

More about you:

· Kind and compassionate personality

· Willingness to learn new skills and adjust accordingly

· Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math & English

· Experience of working in a customer-facing role, motivating complex and diverse client groups to sustain housing, health and/or work outcomes

Rewards & Benefits:

· Group Bonus - annual

· 25 days leave (Rising to 28 after 3 years' service)

· Flexible benefits - £300 allowance to spend on health and lifestyle

· Enhanced DBS and induction paid for

· £0.42p per mile used within work hours

· Uniform & PPE provided

· £500 Refer a friend bonus

· Pension scheme (with employer contributions of up to 8%.)

· Above & Beyond the Call of Duty Awards

· Bank holiday enhanced pay

· Employee Assistance Programme

· Eyes tests and Flu vouchers

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident
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