Specialist Housing Support Worker

The vacancy
Here at Peabody, we have an opportunity for a Specialist Support Worker on a Permanent part time basis (15 hours per week) covering the Braintree area.

As our next Specialist Support Worker, you will provide specialist housing support to customers who have a history of homelessness and rough sleeping as well as social exclusion and or disorderly lifestyles.

What we’re looking for:

* Do you have the right values and empathy to work with our customers?

* Do you have experience or a background of working with vulnerable people within a preventative, housing, or homelessness service?

* Are you able to engage with people who have experienced prolonged periods of homelessness and/or rough sleeping?

* Do you have knowledge or understand the causes of homelessness and rough sleeping?

* Do you have a background working with external agencies and other statutory organisations, particularly within the housing and social care sector?

If so, this role is perfect for you!

A bit about the role:
As a Specialist Support Worker, you will work with customers who have been housed by Braintree Council into our specialist accommodation services following a period of homelessness, unsettled accommodate or rough sleeping. Therefore, a good knowledge of statutory and community services across Braintree and mid Essex would be great!

Some of the key results for the role include:

* To deliver support and interventions to customers.

* To engage and encourage customers into treatment, health accommodation services.

* To enable customers to make informed choices about their lives and better manage their emotional and personal wellbeing.

This role will require an Enhanced DBS check a UK driver’s licence and access to a vehicle.

You will be lone working in and around the Braintree and mid Essex area at our services or in our customers accommodation.

The full-time equivalent salary for this role is £27,087 per annum.

Put simply, if you’ve ever wanted a job where you can really make a positive difference to someone’s life, this is it.

A bit about us:
It started over 160 years ago with one man’s desire to improve the lives of poverty-stricken Londoners. Today, we have 107,000 homes and 220,000 residents across London and the Home Counties and around 20,000 care and support customers. But the desire remains the same – to create homes and communities where people can flourish.

Here just a few of the benefits for working at Peabody:

* Up to 25 days’ annual holiday plus bank holidays

* Flexible benefits scheme, including options for Healthcare, Dental care, Critical illness cover, vouchers, technology scheme and access to a discount portal.

* 4 x Life Assurance

* Sleep in allowance (if applicable to role)

* Competitive salaries that are benchmarked regularly against current market rates

* Professional development by access to "paid for" apprenticeship programs and qualifications

* Two additional paid volunteering days each year

* Family friendly policies

* Up to 10% pension contribution matched 1:1

Are you ready to apply?

PLEASE NOTE: As an employer, Peabody does not provide sponsorship as a licenced UK employer.

To be considered for the position of Specialist Housing Support Worker, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button and submit both your CV and a bit about why we should consider you for the role.

Peabody reserves the right to close this advert before the advertised closing date, depending on the number of applications received.

Closing date: 24 May 2024
Contract type Permanent
Weekly hours 15 hours