Housing Support Worker

Chorley

Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Location: Chorley
Salary: £22,451 – £23,918

Emerging Futures works across the country supporting people affected by homelessness, addiction, and mental health challenges. We are passionate about providing people with safe homes where they can connect with others, find rewarding things to do and be motivated to pay it forward. By aligning our passion with knowledge, we have the skills and competence to unlock people’s potential to change their lives.

About The Role

As a Housing Support Worker, you will support people with a history of drug and/or alcohol issues, who are working towards abstinence and living in our supported housing projects. You will be assessing need, preparing tenancy support plans, and supporting our tenants to achieve their individual goals.

Part of your role will include advocating for residents where appropriate. This could include helping people to arrange and attend appointments such as GP, probation and/or other drug and alcohol services.

You will encourage and support residents to live as fully and independently as possible within the local community, providing emotional and practical support with the aim to move people into more suitable accommodation.

You will be required to work on a rota basis covering weekends, evenings and bank holidays.

About you 

You will have some experience working in a support role, but we will provide you with the knowledge and training you need to work with clients in a holistic and person-centred way.

You are compassionate, energetic, reliable, and committed to improving the health and wellbeing of those experiencing homelessness and rough sleeping.

Patience and resilience will come naturally to you. You should have good interpersonal and listening skills as you will be supporting people with challenging mental health problems.

Above all, you will be enthusiastic and have a genuine desire to support people to transform their lives.

What do our staff say about working for us?

“My professional development is being addressed all the time. I have had so much training while I have been here.”

We try to create an environment where it’s ok not to be ok. I feel very blessed to be part of this organisation.”

Interested? Get in touch…

To apply, please send us your CV and a covering letter to the email below.

A full job description and person specification is available on the download button below. Please reference this to outline the skills and experience you can bring to the role in your cover letter, whilst telling us why you want to work for Emerging Futures.

CV’s sent without a covering letter will not be accepted.

Closing date 25th October 2024

Anticipated interview dates are to be confirmed.

 

Convictions/Disqualifications

If successful in securing an interview we will need to ask you about any unspent convictions as part of our duty of care.  A criminal conviction will not necessarily prevent you from being offered a role; the decision will depend on the type of offence and its relevance to the role.  All of our roles require a criminal record check.

If you would like to discuss any convictions you may have beforehand, please contact info@emergingfutures.org.uk. All information will be dealt with according to the Emerging Futures Confidentiality Policy.

Data Protection

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