Job Description

Brookstreet social care is hiring for Project Worker for one of the client based in Newhaven. It is a full time job paying £23,990.

More details as follows:

Main duties and responsibilities:
1. To provide individual service users with the best possible comprehensive supported
housing service whilst operating a psychologically informed environment.
2. To act as keyworker to a caseload of residents, enabling them to take ownership of their
journey with the company.
3. To carry out a strengths-based assessment with applicants, facilitating the co-production
of a person-centred plan, that enables individuals to achieve their goals and aspirations
and the opportunity to identify and develop their talents.
4. To deliver or facilitate group or one-one sessions with residents that provide
opportunities for them to develop their skills and strengths
5. To encourage and enable residents to engage in a variety of activities that provide a
platform for their skills and strengths to be developed and recognised.
6. To actively engage residents in developing and understanding the service and their
responsibilities under their licence agreement.
7. Support and facilitate our residents to take part in the development and running of the
service.
8. To deal with non-compliance issues in a proactive way, using restorative practices

9. To proactively ensure residents are empowered to keep up with their rent payments,
monitor rental income and keep renl arrears to a minimum in order to stay within the
target percentage.
10. To be responsive to instances of disrepair within accommodation
9. To proactively ensure residents are empowered to keep up with their rent payments,
monitor rental income and keep renl arrears to a minimum in order to stay within the
target percentage.
10. To be responsive to instances of disrepair within accommodation
11. To help ensure the speedy re-let of void properties within the target turnaround period
12. To develop and maintain good professional working relationships with internal colleagues
and external service providers creating close and productive partnerships in order to aid
the provision of good quality support services and create a professional image of the
service.
13. To work within service's safeguarding policy and procedures, ensuring a person-centred
and contextual approach to safeguarding and that appropriate action is taken in order to
safeguard the wellbeing of children, young people and adults at risk, protecting them
from harm whilst respecting their rights, wishes and feelings
14. To be consciously aware of and use our safeguarding and health and safety rules, dealing
with and / or reporting issues in accordance with local requirements
Maintain our system requirements for creating and storing client records, reports and
measuring outcomes
16. Participate in our shift rolling rota system over 7 days
17. The postholder is responsible for fulfilling duties in relation to health and safety, that are
relevant to their role, as set out in the Health & Safety Policy.

Related activities:
1. To participate in essential training, role related training and to work in accordance with
relevant regulations including, for example the Code of Conduct, Equality, Diversity
and Inclusion, Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Information Security.
2. To fulfil the role by being adaptable and flexible to the overall activity that is necessary
to be successful and effective.
3. To fully align with our values and behaviours and to adopt an 'advantaged thinking'
perspective through language, conduct and behaviour.

Aptitudes / Abilities:
➢ Proactive and self-motivated with a can do attitude
➢ Demonstrable empathy with the client group
➢ confident and capable communicator with the ability to inspire, engage and challenge
➢ Great verbal, written and influencing skills
➢ Ability to use a computer, eg Microsoft packages and capacity to successfully navigate
support packages used by us.
➢ Able to participate in the shift rolling rota system over 7 days

Experience / Interests:
➢ Experience of or knowledge related to working with homeless people
➢ Proven capacity to deal successfully with difficult and complex situations
➢ Understanding of wider support and funding facilities available for vulnerable clients
➢ Experience of supporting vulnerable people or groups

Values and behaviours:
To be successful in this job you need to be fully aligned with our values and behaviours. They
mean a lot to us. They help define how we should all work and this helps us to stand out from
other providers and employers. Please see overleaf

If you've worked with Children or young people for more then 6 months in last 2 years please apply.