Recovery Support Worker

Overview

Creative Support are looking to recruit a support worker who is experienced in working with people who have mental health support needs, for our Gateshead based service.

You will be working with an outcome-focused floating support team for people over the age of 18 who are experiencing homelessness, or who are at risk of homelessness and have housing related support needs. The service is commissioned by Gateshead Council and will provide a time-limited support service from an office in Gateshead.

• Provide support in people's own homes
• Offer drop-in sessions and activities/courses at our office
• Signpost services to ensure people have the support they need to find and maintain tenancies in the local community.
• Manage a caseload and provide direct support to service users in accordance with their holistic support plans.
• As a recovery worker, support service users who have complex and multiple needs, taking a multi-agency approach that ensures people have access to appropriate services that meet those needs.
• Work with service users who require longer term support with the aim of stabilising their lives by helping them develop skills and confidence for finding and managing a tenancy.
• Promote inclusion, independence and wellbeing with the aim of enabling service users to become active and productive citizens.
• Support service users by providing one-off interventions and longer term support, devising clear exit strategies that take into account opportunities to build resilience, local connections and knowledge of local service provision.

• Resettlement & tenancy sustainment
• Prevention of tenancy failure or homelessness
• Maximised income
• Financial management and resilience
• Meaningful activity including volunteering, training and employment
• Improved health and wellbeing including smoking cessation, reduction in alcohol consumption and substance misuse, increased physical activity, improved diet and greater engagement with primary and specialist health care services
• Improved engagement with probation and rehabilitation services, and criminal justice agencies
• Improved self-reported quality of life and self-reliance
• Improved connections to local community activities and leisure opportunities

This role offers unique and challenging opportunities bringing great job satisfaction to those who are looking to make a positive difference to the lives of others. You will be required to work in a flexible manner on a rota which may include evenings, weekends and nights. In addition to opportunities for personal and career development, we offer good conditions of service and a supportive, hands-on management culture.

Vacancy Reference Number: 92282

Full training is provided, as is the opportunity to work towards QCF Diploma in Health and Social Care. Benefits of working with Creative Support include a probationary bonus, pension contributions, 28 days Annual Leave and company paid enhanced DBS.

We are a passionate, inclusive, and anti-racist organization - Stonewall Diversity Champion, Disability Confident Employer who have recently received Investors in People Gold award.

Applications are reviewed as they are received. We can only accept applications from candidates who are located in and eligible to work within the UK.