Support Worker

Would you like to work in a rewarding job helping others whilst having access to a wide range of training options to further your personal and professional development?

If so we are looking for Support Workers to deliver high quality support at our Grimsby service. You will join our dedicated floating support team in providing assistance to individuals who are homeless or at risk of homelessness, people who are at risk of offending and individuals with mental health conditions.

The focus of this work is to support people to develop the necessary skills to maximise their independence in the community and lead a more fulfilling life, by providing additional help such as learning life skills such as cooking or budgeting and providing emotional support and befriending.

Our Grimsby service encourages individuals to get support in a group settling, as well as identify their own goals and priorities. We enable and empower tenants to find sustainable, long-term accommodation in the local community.

As a Support Worker your duties will include:

• Liaising with other community groups/agencies to drive the project forward and enable us to offer a wide variety of activities within the groups
• Supporting individuals accessing the service in financing and budgeting, benefit maximisation, as well as general health and wellbeing and living skills

Whist experience providing support/other services to vulnerable adults is desirable, it is not essential. We welcome applications from warm, caring, well-motivated individuals who can show that their ethics match up to our person centered model of care.

We provide full ongoing training in all aspects of the job. Our training is provided by the Creative Academy who recently received the Investors in People GOLD award for the wonderful work that they do.

Due to wider travel across the Grimsby and Cleethorpes areas for our floating support service a clean, valid driving license with access to a car is essential for this Support Worker role.

“What I enjoy most about this role is seeing the outcomes and progression for individuals we support on a daily basis. You can really see you are making a difference by providing life changing support for people.” – Michelle, member of our North East Lincolnshire support team

Benefits of working with Creative Support:

We offer all employees competitive pay and a pension contribution in addition to 28 days annual leave. As an employer that is committed to the professional development of our staff we also support our care staff to complete the nationally recognised Care Certificate and pay for your enhanced DBS. Additional benefits include enhanced maternity leave, employee support programmes and an additional day of leave each year on or around your Birthday.

Creative Support is a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer, who have recently received Investors in People Gold award. We actively encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds and cultures, however we can only accept fully completed applications from those located in and eligible to work within the UK – Please be aware we are currently at full capacity with our Visa Sponsor Licenses, therefore we are not accepting applicants who are seeking sponsorship.

We are also not accepting applicants who are currently on a Skilled Worker Visa, seeking secondary employment, as we are unable to actively track the hours worked with the primary sponsor.

We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed. We do not notify unsuccessful candidates of their outcome at application stage, previously unsuccessful applicants must wait six months before reapplying.