Assistant Support Worker

St Mungo's•Camden, NJ

About The Position

Are you looking for an opportunity to start your career supporting vulnerable adults? We have two exciting opportunities for Assistant Support Workers (known internally as Duty Worker) to join two of our fantastic services. You can develop valuable skills and experience while playing a key role in providing support to St Mungo’s clients. Available vacancies: 1 x Haringey Complex Needs Service, Haringey, N15 1 x Chichester Road Care Home, North Camden, NW6 This is a great opportunity to develop your skills in supporting service users with multiple or complex needs including in substance use and mental health. Our aim is to support people who have recently been sleeping rough, or who may be experiencing long term homelessness and work with them to develop the skills, networks and confidence to live independently in the community. In these roles you will jointly manage the safe day to day running of the project with other members of the team and provide basic support and advice to clients. About you These are fantastic roles for people looking to develop a career in the sector; a number of current Managers started their career as Duty Workers.

Requirements

Some experience of dealing directly with the public and/or clients or customers in a busy service environment and good communication skills.
Personal experience of homelessness and/or an understanding of; and empathy with the issues faced by homeless or vulnerably housed people.
A genuine interest in helping vulnerable people to make positive changes in their life, and the willingness to develop these valuable skills.

Responsibilities

jointly manage the safe day to day running of the project with other members of the team
provide basic support and advice to clients

Benefits

Agile working model for suitable roles.
Supportive flexitime and toil arrangements.
28 days annual leave rising to 31 after five years’ service.
Family friendly leave policies including - maternity, adoption and parental leave.
Carers leave, and fertility treatment leave.
Financial wellbeing platform offering loans, advances and saving options.
Auto-enrolment to pension scheme after six months service with an employer contribution of 6%.
Employee Assistance Programme and access to SmartHealth app – 24/7 GP appointments, health checks and nutrition advice.
Cycle to Work scheme and interest free season ticket loans.
Discount vouchers including gym, retail, food & drink, travel, electricals and more.
Highly praised internal training courses and access to external learning to build your skills and meet your professional development goals.
Steps into Management programme to support colleague progression.
Commitment to continued professional development with access to career development forums, internal mentoring and internal secondment opportunities.