Senior Support Worker - NPT PAWS

Location Neath Port Talbot
Job Category: Community Based Support Work
Job type: Permanent Role
Salary: £21,873.94 per annum
Contact name: Gia Stokes

Contact email: gia.stokes@thewallich.net
Job ref: 001422
Published: about 1 year ago
Start date: ASAP

Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, between Monday-Friday 09:00-17:00 with some flexibility

The Wallich is a leading homelessness and rough sleeping charity in Wales. For more information about our innovative work to support people across the country, visit The Wallich website. www.thewallich.com/about-us

Project Description

Neath Port Talbot Prevention and Wellbeing Support provides generic floating support to the residents of Neath Port Talbot. Addressing housing, financial and personal difficulties, building the service users skills and confidence, improving their ability to maintain their accommodation, increasing their independence to achieve agreed goals.

The project is funded through the Supporting People Programme Grant and is required to meet the Welsh Government’s National Outcomes Framework. The Framework’s four main aims are:

* Promoting Personal and Community Safety

* Promoting Independence and Control

* Promoting Economic Progress and Financial Control

* Promoting Health and Wellbeing

Purpose of Role

To coordinate and provide floating support that enables and empowers Service Users to address housing and/or personal difficulties, build their skills and confidence, and ultimately improve their ability to maintain their current or future accommodation. The support will not create or increase dependence. It will ‘do with’ rather than ‘do for’ to enable people to improve their control, understanding and involvement in dealing with the issues that affect them, and assist Service Users to achieve their preferred outcomes.

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS check

No Agencies.

We do not accept unsolicited agency referrals for this position and do not consider any applicants, to have been introduced to us via agency.

Please follow this link to view the full job description and person specification. Please refer to this information when completing your application:  **  Job Description Link **

This vacancy closes 27th March 2023 at 9am