Details:
- Salary: £12.61 - Hour
- Location: Huddersfield (Clare Hill)
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
Support Coordinator (specialist)
Yorkshire - Kirklees homeless service
Permanent, full or part time (37.5 hpw), rota working
Pay £12.61 per hour (salary £24,664 per year) 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? Here at Kirklees Homeless Service (known locally at Clare House), we are a 24/7 service supporting our 22 customers who were homeless, to successfully move into permanent accommodation. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!
Typical shift as our Support Coordinator
Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
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 work together 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 Places to Work in the UK!
You bring
Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail.
Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children.
The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach.
Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs.
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
You'll be working for Karla, our Senior Clients Service Manager who enjoys cooking, walking, reading and netflix true crimes. We have a mixture of coordinators, support workers, Peer mentor and mental health lead so plenty of support from the team with your ideas.
Job details
Able to use technology to update support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
Working on a rota basis - 1 weekend in 3
You’ll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
A place where you belong
Great things happen when we can be ourselves at work. We want all our colleagues to be who they truly are here. Our internal diversity networks, peers and allies (Multicultural, LGBTQIA+ and Disability) support us all to be our best. !
What’s in it for you?
34 days annual leave (including bank hols and a “me day” to take anytime you fancy) increasing to 39, option to buy 5 more and time off for volunteering too!
Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We’ll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you’re ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
Colleagues really matters to us, that’s why we’re the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
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