Contract Type: Permanent Full Time (37 hours per week)
Persona: Site Based
Location: East London
Salary: £23,348 per annum (sleep in payments and overtime additional)
Care to work in a place where 78% of our staff told us it’s a great place to work and 92% said their manager treats them with respect? (GPTW survey 2022)
If you are caring, share our values and enjoy helping others, apply now to join our Beverley Lewis House team, providing a high quality personal welfare support service for women with mental health / learning disabilities and other associated support needs.
Our safe house is proud to be a leader in its field and an employer of choice with leading edge systems for supervision, quality management and development. You will be working with vulnerable women who may be fleeing violence, at risk of abuse or survivors of domestic violence including those at the point of crisis. You will conduct key work sessions on a regular basis and support the women in assessing and managing risk to themselves and their children’s safety. You will assist survivors in ensuring they are aware of their legal rights to protection and have access to the appropriate benefits such as housing.
We follow the ethos of Positive Behaviour Support, engaging individuals in active support and focussing on community participation. You will have experience in working with people with learning disabilities and mental health support needs and have previously demonstrated strong key worker skills with proven ability to undertake the duties outline below.
We follow the ethos of Positive Behaviour Support, engaging individuals in active support and focussing on community participation. The main duties for this post involve leading on key working duties:
- Completing and reviewing person centred support plans
- Completing and reviewing risk assessments, including positive risk-taking interventions
- Holding person centred reviews – including the monitoring and reviewing of people’s individual goals and evidencing outcomes
- Monthly key worker reports to reflect progress of goals and the delivery of person centred support
- Working alongside the Positive Behaviour Support Lead to review PBS plan and interventions
- Supporting people to maintain their independence and wellbeing, as well as accessing community activities, offering personal care and support with daily living tasks
No two days are the same at Beverley Lewis House but every day is as rewardable as the previous one.
As a requirement of the role you will be working on a rota basis weekends, early mornings, afternoon shifts, nights and sleep ins.
The ideal candidate will be someone who shares our values:
People - We care about the happiness and wellbeing of our customers and employees.
Passion - We approach everything with energy, determination and enthusiasm.
Inclusion - We draw strength from our differences and work collaboratively.
Responsibility - We own problems and deliver effective, lasting solutions.
Impact - We measure what we do by the difference we make.
Knowledge of the client group is required but this could have been gained at college or university. This isn’t just any job. This is a job where you can make a real difference and have a clear career path into management. Joining a large housing association also means that if you fancy a change of direction you can apply for positions across the organisation.
Why work for L&Q Living?
- We are committed to paying our staff the Real Living Wage.
- Free training up to diploma level 5
- We offer excellent benefits including 21 days annual leave (increasing to 27 days after 3 years continuous service), pension scheme and non-contributory life assurance, season ticket loan, employee discount scheme and a health and wellbeing program.
- You will have access to our spot bonus scheme for demonstrating how you embed our values. If you go way and beyond, we will reward you with a spot bonus of up to £1000
- You will also be joining an organisation where 78% of our staff told us it’s a great place to work (2022) and 92% of staff told us their manager treats them with respect
- The opportunity to grow your career with us or other departments within our business
If you are interested in this role and share our values, then apply without delay by clicking on the apply button below or sending your CV to recruitment@lq-living.co.uk
- Please note that due to the nature of this position, it is an occupational requirement that this role is carried out by women only. This is in line with Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR), Schedule 9 (Work; Exceptions), Part 1 (Occupational Requirements), of the Equality Act (2010) applies.
For this post the successful candidate will need to apply for an Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service certificate (DBS) to enable them to work within the team. Further information about the Disclosure scheme can be found at http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/dbs/
At the foundation of everything that we do are our corporate values and associated behaviours. Our organisational behavioural framework outlines the core expectations of all employees, which should be demonstrated at all times when representing L&Q. More information about L&Q’s values can be found on our website and a copy of our behavioural framework can be provided on request.
We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident (Committed) employer and have signed the Time to Change Employer Pledge to demonstrate our commitment to end mental health discrimination in the workplace.
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