Care Support Worker - Homelessness

Care Support Worker – Homelessness
Location: Glasgow, G20 8PB
Salary: Salary of £12.00 per hour will be backdated to 1/4/24 upon receipt of funding from the local authorities. Salary payable until then is £11.00 per hour.
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Benefits: Excellent learning and development opportunities and strong support & leadership, Eligible in work travel payments, Opportunity to shadow and observe from experienced Support Workers and Competitive rates of pay!
Aspire is an employee owned, award winning social care provider, winning prestigious awards at the Scottish Care National Awards every year in the past decade.
All our efforts are focused on helping the people we support have to the most fulfilling and self-directed lives possible. We help people develop their confidence and skills and to realise their potential.
To be an organisation that can consistently evidence that it keeps its promise: in doing everything possible to put the interests of the individuals with whom we work first in all that we do; an organisation that can be trusted to continually deliver flexible and effective support that makes a positive difference to those persons’ lives, benefitting their families and local communities.
The service is designed to provide emergency accommodation and support to people, many of whom may be going through periods of crisis.
The service will be highly flexible and provide high quality accommodation and support to individuals and potentially couples, who urgently require those provisions at any time (365 days of the year, 24 hours per day).
In partnership with external agencies, the service will work alongside people to help to stabilise their situations, empower them to achieve positive outcomes and enable them to return to or move on to tenancies or other appropriate accommodation.
We are looking for inspiring individuals to become Support Workers based in Glasgow with similar values and whom are keen to fulfil the following support:
* Delivering and arranging high quality person centered support, care, daily living and personal development opportunities.
* To support and enable individuals to maintain their accommodation; develop budgeting skills, cook nutritional meals and managing their home.
* Signposting and sourcing appropriate services such as Health Care, Housing
* Associations, Case Workers, Addiction/Recovery Services.
* To carry out assessments and reviews of support needs as and when necessary due to the changing needs and aspirations of individuals.
* To carry out Risk Enablement Plans as and when necessary due to the changing needs and aspirations of individuals.
* Working with individuals to achieve their desired Support & Development Goals through use of an Outcome Measurement Framework called Better Futures.
* To support individuals to improve their quality of life.
Additional desirable qualities, qualifications and experience of the post holder include:
* Hardworking, flexible, motivated and driven to do the right thing by the people we support;
* SVQ 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care or a commitment to undertake a SVQ; and
* Registration with the Scottish Social Service Council (SSSC) or a commitment to become registered.
PVG checks will be required for the successful applicant, as are two references; one being from the most recent employer.
If you feel you have the necessary skills and experience to be successful in this role click on “APPLY” today