Project Worker
29 days ago
Grays
Project Worker 3 Charles Street, Grays, Essex, RM17 6DX £14.01 per hour 37.5 hours and 30 hours per week available Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for Project Workers at our Homelessness Service, Charles Street, Essex. At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible. We're a national organisation, but we're not-for-profit and we think locally by putting our customers at the heart of what we do. We're committed to being our best and helping customers to be their best, as we support them on their pathways for independence. No matter your job - delivering support directly or working in our offices to support our frontline teams - your work makes a difference every day. And working with us isn't just another job. It's rewarding, inspiring, exciting and it provides an opportunity to make a real, positive impact on people's lives. Plus, we'll support you in reaching your aspirations and career goals, through comprehensive training and benefits. The role of Project Worker will include: • Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potentialand independence, • Assessing customers' needs by writing and updating support plans, • Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries, • Developing relationships with customers, ensuring that customers maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity, • Liaising with external support links to improve customers' confidence, health and wellbeing and offer training and encouragement towards employment and education • Handling occasional emergency situations, • Keeping accurate and high-quality written records Skills and experiences: • Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness, • Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong "can-do" attitude, • Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative, • Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy, • Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets, • NVQ3 in Health and Social Care, or willingness to work towards is essential Are you ready to be your best? Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are just some of the ways we'll reward you: • At least 25 days paid holiday, rising to 30 days after 5 years' service (plus public holidays) pro rata for part time, • A pension scheme with employer contributions, • A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers, • Health and well-being plans, • Life assurance, • Family friendly arrangements, including opportunities for flexible working, • Tax efficient savings through our Cycle to Work scheme We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK. If you are applying internally, don't forget to use your internal careers account to submit your application. We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Don't miss out, please apply early. Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers' needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary's commitment to our Disability Confident employer status. Building Equality and Diversity Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for. Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities. Job Segment: Home Care, Part Time, Healthcare
