Specialist Support Worker (Compass)

Working hours: 40 hours per week on a rolling 3 week rota (includes evenings, weekends and be part of the duty manager rota and on call

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Job Summary and Key Responsibilities:

Ty-Gobaith Life House provides various services to individuals who our homeless and in need including accommodation, assessment and support.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individual, to take on an exciting opportunity in the role of Specialist Support Worker with our complex needs service - Compass.  

As a Specialist Support Worker you will support the establishment of a dedicated specialist compass project to support individuals who have multiple issues, which create significant barriers to accessing and sustaining housing and in turn perpetuate the cycle of homelessness.  This cycle can include the repeated entering and exiting of hospital, prison, homeless accommodation as well as homelessness and rough sleeping. This has been built around the following set of principles:

• Provide a safe secure environment to build trusting working relationships.
• Promote stability.
• To offer personalised, flexible and intensive support.
• Support to be shaped around The Trauma Recovery Model.
• Creating an integrated response across health, housing and social care.
• Improvement on their own sense of wellbeing and quality of life.

The support will be based on a personalised trauma informed model, working intensely 121 with each person daily, providing sessional group work and will build on the current partnerships between statutory services such as health and substance misuse to develop and strong working and understanding between the two sectors.

The programme will offer transitional support model with a strong focus on a move into the community and independent living and will use a number of established person-centred monitoring and evaluation tools to monitor progress in displaying improvements in areas such as physical and mental health, decrease in criminal activity and ability to undertake accredited learning with the view to further education and employability.

Successful candidate will have:

• Motivation towards supporting vulnerable clients to achieve focused and positive life outcomes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Specialist knowledge and experience in the required field with strong previous experience of successfully supporting socially excluded and vulnerable people
• The ability and willingness to work within, be empathic with and promote the Christian ethos and values of The Salvation Army Mission

In order to complete your application please download and read the job profile and any other attachments.

In the job profile you will find the criteria required for the role please make sure that you address this in your supporting statement as this forms the basis of our shortlisting.

Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, a criminal record check (DBS: a satisfactory Enhanced DBS Disclosure with Barred List Check of the Adult Workforce) and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK in line with Home Office requirements.

As we are not a licensed sponsor, applicants must already have the right to work in the UK. Details on how to prove your Right to Work can be found here.  

The Salvation Army actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and we welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records. 

Please note that any Salvation Army employees who are under notice of redundancy and apply for this position will be given priority consideration.

We reserve the right to close this advert earlier if we feel that we have received sufficient applications.

Promoting equality in the workplace and as a disability confident leader scheme employer, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet all the minimum essential criteria for the vacancy.