Job Description
Are you looking for flexible hours to fit around your lifestyle?
We have an opportunity for you to become a difference maker as a Scheme Support Officer in a variety of locations that suit you. Shift patterns can be varied, and we predominately have hours to suit people who wish to work waking nights, and the occasional days shifts on weekends.
Each service offers something a little different and is tailored to meet the needs of the people we support. Our incredible teams work with our clients to get them settled in, identify their initial support needs, engage them with other support services where required, and teach tenancy management skills. The aim of our services is to positively move our clients into their tenancy where they can live independently and prevent them from becoming homeless again.
How it works:
Being part of the relief bank as a Relief Scheme Support Officer, means that you have the flexibility to choose when you work and are under no obligations to work a set number of hours a week.
If you have other commitments and need a better work life balance or want to try something new and gain experience, then this is the perfect position for you.
These positions are ideal for individuals with other commitments or someone who wants to try something new. It gives you the chance to feel you are making a difference on a daily basis. Your manager will offer shifts in your preferred location with as much notice as possible but you might be contacted on an ad-hoc basis when shift cover is needed. As such, the hours may not be guaranteed.
Shift patterns can be varied and can include waking nights, evenings, weekends and day shifts.
Lone working may also apply in some of our services, but we provide all training required to successfully deliver the role and you will have access to a bespoke learning pathway with the support of an experienced Learning & Development team.
Pobl is a company that offers great support that make a difference to people's lives. Working together as a team across the business, we support people to live happy, independent lives, providing great support.
Key Information:
* Hourly rate of pay is £9.50
* 12.07% relief holiday payment top up
* Sleep in Rate £34.54
* Weekly pay
* Access to all our internal opportunities.
The role:
As a Scheme Support Officer, you work alongside Project Workers in delivering a housing related support service to our clients residing within Pobl projects.
You will work in our supported accommodation schemes giving 1 to 1 and group support with our Project Workers. You will be the first point of call for our clients to offer advice and guidance to them with issues such as homelessness, younger people support, substance misuse, mental health, offender services & complex needs. You will also be involved in daily activities with teaching the people we support essential life skills.
Every day is different and every day you would learn new skills and have the opportunity to work with a variety of agencies such as social services, health visitors and community nurses.
You would be delivering the crucial support to our clients within a 24-hour setting and will be a fundamental part of ensuring a positive move on for them.
The locations you can choose to work in are:
Our Areas:
* Newport
* Torfaen
* Monmouthshire
* Caerphilly
* Blaenau Gwent
* Cardiff
* RCT
* Vale of Glamorgan
* Merthyr Tydfil
* Bridgend
Who we are looking for:
We look for individuals who demonstrate how their values relate to the Pobl Group core values, Positive, Connected and Considerate.
We also look for:
* Knowledge & understanding of issues facing vulnerable people
* Effective relationship building & teamwork
* Positive & pro-active 'can do' attitude
Pobl Benefits include:
* Opportunity to develop your skills within the organisation
* Access to our learning portal with over 200 courses available
* Pobl savings scheme
* Pobl give as you earn
* Where applicable entitlement to SSP will apply
* Pobl Wellbeing Team
* Career Progression within the relief bank and company for contracted positions with access to our Internal vacancies
* DBS certificate for which we will pay
To begin your journey with Pobl, click "apply now"
Pobl is an organisation with equality, diversity, and inclusion at its heart, and we are pleased to have recently been accredited with Stage 2 Investors in Diversity. We welcome applications from all areas of the community; however we particularly encourage applications from members of the BAME community as well as individuals with disabilities, who are currently under-represented within our workforce.
Pobl are required by law to check a candidate's eligibility to work in the UK. The successful candidate will be expected to provide their documentation to us in person at our offices prior to the start of their employment with Pobl. A socially distant appointment system and COVID safe environment will be in place and in line with the Welsh government guidance.
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Reference ID: 506329
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Temporary
Salary: £9.50 per hour
Benefits:
* Flexible schedule
Schedule:
* 10 hour shift
* 12 hour shift
* 8 hour shift
* Day shift
* Holidays
* Monday to Friday
* Night shift
* Overtime
* Weekend availability