Support Worker - Employability, Social Skills, Budgeting and Life Skills

Support Worker - Employability, Social Skills, Budgeting and Life Skills
London (with extensive travel within Inner London)

About Us

At Family Action, we transform lives by providing practical, emotional and financial support to those who are experiencing poverty, disadvantage and social isolation. We have been building stronger families since 1869, and today we work with more than 60,000 families in over 150 community-based services, as well as supporting thousands more through national programmes and grants.

We are currently seeking a Support Worker to join our team on a permanent basis. Full-time and part-time hours are available, working 25 - 35 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £24,724 - £27,232 per annum FTE (pro rata according to hours worked) + Home Working Allowance
- Annual paid leave entitlement of 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays
- Up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- Enhanced paid sick leave
- Enhanced paid family leave provisions
- Eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- Cycle to work scheme
- Investment in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities

This is an incredible opportunity for an empathetic individual with experience working in services that deliver positive outcomes and a background in health, social care, education or counselling to join our dedicated organisation.

In this vital role, you will get to see the direct impact your work has on the welfare and development of individuals as you provide compassion and support to help them tackle their problems and become happier and healthier.

So, if you want to begin a rewarding role with an organisation that will make a positive difference to, not just the lives of the families we support, but yours too, then apply today!

The Role

As a Support Worker, you will identify and provide intensive support to individuals with complex needs who are further away from employment or training as part of our LifeSkills Plus Programme.

Using a strengths-based approach, you will deliver a range of face to face support, activities and interventions to increase confidence and improve mental health. You will also provide support to widen social networks, help with budgeting and enable individuals to seek training, work or volunteering opportunities.

Activities will vary between home visits and informal and structured support groups and you will ensure risks are managed to cover the safeguarding of service users, colleagues, volunteers and partners.

Additionally, you will:

- Respond to any safeguarding concerns
- Increase opportunities for others to influence the way services are designed and delivered
- Ensure case recording is of a high standard and uploaded within timescales
- Support the monitoring and reviewing of the delivery of the service
- Work with service users to complete application forms for small LifeSkills grants

About You

To be considered as a Support Worker, you will need:

- Experience in health, social care, education or counselling
- Experience working in services that deliver positive outcomes
- Experience giving advice, guidance and support and signposting to appropriate services
- Experience carrying out 1:1 sessions, running groups and evaluating their effectiveness
- Knowledge of health and safety and safeguarding issues
- An understanding of mental health and disability, drug and alcohol use, domestic violence, worklessness, poverty and the way these impact individuals and family life
- An understanding of the impact of discrimination and social exclusion
- A professional qualification equivalent to at least NVQ 3 in health, social care, education or counselling

Please note, this role will involve working flexibly to support the success of the programme as well as working occasional evenings and weekends and undertaking national travel with overnight stays when required.

The closing date for this role is 6th May 2024.

Other organisations may call this role Family Support Worker, Family Services Co-ordinator, Social Care Practitioner, Social Worker, or Family Support Practitioner.

Webrecruit and Family Action are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you want to make a real difference as a Support Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.