Floating Support Worker

Position – Floating Support Worker

Employment type – Permanent

Location – Covering Exeter, Dorset, Somerset and Basingstoke

Salary – £27,000 p.a Monday to Friday

Hours – 37.5 hours per week with the ability to work out of hours if required

Benefits:

Career development

Employee Assistance Programme

27 days annual leave, including an extra day off for your birthday, with an additional day’s annual leave each year up until 4 years on continuous employment.

30% staff discount at charity shops

20% staff discount at bike workshops

Generous and competitive pension scheme

Simply Health Scheme

A supportive culture

Why work here – This charity is dedicated to improving the lives of vulnerable adults. Each year, they help thousands of people who are at risk of homelessness or domestic abuse. They have an Equality and Diversity Action plan in place and ensure continuous staff improvement. They also have a group of Inclusion & Diversity champions. They invite applications from people from all backgrounds and cultures. They embrace flexibility and are a Disability Confident and Mindful employer.

About the role – As a Floating Support Worker, you will be essential support for services across Exeter, Dorset, Somerset and Basingstoke that required additional help. The services you’ll attended will specialise in a variety of different things from domestic abuse, refugee support, outreach, criminal justice and supported housing. These services are temporary bolt holes for people in crisis or release from prison and you will help the staff teams deliver their objectives to ensure service users are helped and moved on to more independent living solutions. You will be sign posting, giving help with tenancies, giving therapeutic care, help accessing the community and relevant agency support.

Qualifications and Experience required – We are looking people who are genuinely interested in a variety of social issues with a background in supporting vulnerable people with multiple and complex needs people in a none judge mental and caring manner. You need to be flexible and able to plan and willing to move around where needed. The role requires you to have a UK driving license and access to your own vehicle.

If this Floating Support Worker role looks of interest, please click apply. PLEASE NOTE, WE UNFORTUNATELY DON’T OFFER SPONSORSHIP

Prospero Health and Social Care is acting as an employment business/social care recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy. The successful candidate will be required to register with Prospero Health and Social Care in order to fill this vacancy.

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