Support Coordinator

Lead Support Worker

Railway Terrace - North Tyneside

Temporary, full time (37.5 hpw), rota working

Pay £12.61 to £13.36 per hour (£22,500 to £26,123 per annum) [pro rata] and great benefits including Health Cash Plan

Home, a place where you belong

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better?  As our Lead Support Worker, you’ll be at the heart of supporting our customers who have complex needs to develop their skills to live more independently in the community.  You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations.  Amazing we know!

Typical day as a Lead Support Worker (known by us as Coordinator)


* Creating support plans with your customers and coordinating our small team of Support Workers working to the plans. 


* Customer group - Mental health, drug and/or alcohol addiction, offenders.


* Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.


* Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.


* Cuppas, chats and catch ups.  There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here!  Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.    

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK! 

You bring


* Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail. 


* Experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting colleagues in working to work to the plans.


* Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.


* The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
 
 

Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role.  This remains under regular review 

Our team

Looking for a job where you really belong? Where you can be, well you!  Bring your uniqueness, brilliant skills and awesome experience to deliver amazing things for our customers.

You’ll join our team, who come from different walks of life and are here to support you as you make yourself at Home!  

Job details


* Where we’re flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers.

That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.


* Work pattern is on a 3/4 day rota 8am-8pm - some weekends
 


* Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.


* You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.

A place where you belong

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