59 Social Services / Housing jobs in Potterne, Wiltshire

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer's life for the better? As our Lead Support Worker, you'll be at the heart of supporting our female customers who have experienced domestic abuse and/or homeless to develop their skills to live more independently in the community. You'll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know! Typical day as a Lead Support Worker (known by us as Coordinator)

• Provide emotional and practical support to women experiencing domestic abuse and/or homelessness.
• Empower women to rebuild their confidence, independence, and safety as well as advocate for women's rights and well-being.
• Work closely with partner agencies to ensure holistic support.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There's no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to collaborate with colleagues too.
Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You'll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Place to Work in the UK! You bring
• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working collaboratively with an eye for detail.
• Experience of creating person-centred support plans and supporting colleagues in working to work to the plans.
• Experience of coordinating and assessing customer referrals.
• The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach
Due to limits on our current certificates of sponsorship, we are not able to offer sponsorship to external candidates for this role. This remains under regular review Our team You'll join Christina and our Bath team, we're super passionate about what we do! We're really proud of services and the feedback we get from the people we help. We're a supportive bunch and inside and outside work. We have a reading club, and even tried running together! We are always up to try something new! Job details
• Where we're flexible with you, we do need to meet the needs of our customers. That may mean adapting your start or finishing times on occasion.
• Work pattern - Monday to Friday, office hours - you would manage your own diary
• Able to use technology for creating and updating support plans, complete online learning and to collaborate with colleagues.
• You'll need an Enhanced DBS check done and we pay for that.
  
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• 34 days leave (including bank hols and a "me day" to use for whatever you fancy) increasing to 39, the option to buy 5 more, and time off for volunteering too!
• Health cash plan saving you from £1140 per annum. We'll cover your costs (and kids if you have them) towards dental, optical, prescriptions, alternative therapies and lots more.
• Over 800 high street discounts on groceries, holidays and days out. Looking for a new phone, bike or car? Save money with us.
• We Grow Our Own colleagues (not literally of course!), when you're ready for the next step in your career, you can grow with us!
• Colleagues really matters to us, that's why we're the 10th Best place in the UK for Wellbeing. Our tools and support help you when you need them.
• Learn more about our benefits on our website.