Housing Support Coordinator
Location: Darlington
Salary: £24,020 - £30,790 per annum
Our client’s vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. They tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.They have almost 200 services around England - and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year their services support around 125,000 people.
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The Role
As a Support Coordinator with Darlington Support For All you will have the opportunity to support clients around their housing needs, this includes Applying for housing, multi-agency working, signposting, setting up gas and electricity, completing risk assessments and more. This role is based in Darlington and involves supporting clients from Darlington through drop-in appointments as well as managing your own caseload. Appointments take place within the office and in their accommodation during outreach support.They believe in providing comprehensive training to ensure that their team members have the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfil their roles. So, if you have a passion for making a positive impact on people's lives but lack some of the necessary skills, they encourage you to apply.Key Duties:As part of their integrated team, you will:
- Support clients to live independently in their own accommodation and progressing towards sustained independent housing.
- Manage a caseload of service users as allocated by the Team Manager and complete high quality and comprehensive needs assessments and risk assessments for those service users.
Benefits
- Generous annual leave entitlement (27 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 32 after 1 years’ service)
- Annual leave purchase scheme
- Enhanced occupational sick pay
- Enhanced employer contribution to your workplace pension
- Death in service benefit
- Free Will writing
- Eyecare vouchers
- Blue light card discount
- Fantastic learning and development opportunities, including free training courses
- Work-life balance- flexible working and family friendly policies
- Happy, Healthy You! - their wellbeing offers for the workforce
- Employee Assist Programme and company Support Networks
To Apply
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