Job Description
Working hours: As and When Required
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Founders House Lifehouse located in Whitechapel is looking to recruit an experienced Support Worker to join our Homelessness Service Team. We provide residential supported accommodation for up to 123 adult males who are experiencing homelessness.
Working as part of a team and being responsible to the Programme Manager, the successful applicant will have a caseload of residents, provide one to one / individual support programmes in a trauma sensitive and psychologically informed manner.
You will also be supporting and empowering residents through meaningful activities and to move through a structured resettlement programme, promoting choice and control, into the wider community and independence.
Successful candidates will be expected to embrace and exhibit behaviours that model our values of integrity; accountability; compassion; passion; respect and boldness working in a way that is trauma sensitive and strength based, within a psychologically informed framework.
Professional working proficiency in Bengali is desirable.
In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.
Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, a criminal record check (DBS: Enhanced with barred list DBS Disclosure Adult Workforce) and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK in line with Home Office requirements.
As we are not a licensed sponsor, applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Details on how to prove your Right to Work can be found here.
Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.
We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.
Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.
Benefits:
25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro rata for part-time) a contributory pension scheme; an employee assistance programme
The Salvation Army is a worldwide Christian church and registered charity, which has been fighting against social inequality and transforming lives for over 150 years.
The Salvation Army expresses its faith through charitable action by working at the heart of communities across the UK and Ireland.
We have 650 churches and community centres where we offer friendship, practical help and support to some of the most disadvantaged people in our communities.
Motivated by our Christian faith we offer practical support and services to all who need them, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
Our work includes: – Homelessness – Modern slavery – Poverty – Addiction – Campaigning and social policy – Older people – Community – debt advice, unemployment, isolation.
Your support allows us to respond to the people who need us most.
Across the UK and Ireland, we: – Provide over 3,000 places every night in 82 lifehouses – Supported over 13,000 people through our Employment service – Supported over 11,000 victims referred to our modern slavery services.
The United Kingdom and Ireland is part of the wider international Salvation Army, which changes lives in more than 130 countries around the world.