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Job Description
- Req#: REQ0022944
- Experience of working with vulnerable and diverse client groups
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding
- Ability to identify individuals and family needs and recognise the required support packages to maintain independence
- To communicate effectively with colleagues and clients.
- Ability to work under your own initiative.
- You will be supportive, trustworthy, a good listener, approachable and empathetic to others
- Full UK driving license
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
- Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
- Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
- Family friendly policies
- Company Vehicle and Fuel Card
- Access to EAP which includes counselling sessions
- Access to additional training such as mental health first aid/fire marshal training/ safeguarding level 2
- Mentoring for progression
- Overtime available
- Opportunities to be part of staff forums
- New starter welcome pack
Annual salary: up to £27,000.00Welfare Support Officer
East Ridings of Yorkshire
Full time, Permanent, 40 hours per week Monday to Friday
Salary up to £27,000 per annum, plus, company vehicle & fuel card.
Mears provides temporary accommodation to asylum seekers whilst their claim is being assessed in three regions: Northwest, Yorkshire and Humber, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. At the end of May 2021 Mears had over 19000 service users across the three regions. Mears work in partnership with central and local Government, registered providers, tenants, landlords and investors to find solutions to homelessness, provide more social and affordable housing and create specialist housing for people with care needs.
About the Role:
As a Welfare Support Officer within Mears, you will be working alongside our Housing business, within the Asylum Accommodation and Support Contract. This role forms part of the front-line delivery to our service users who may potentially be vulnerable or have a special housing need. Your role is to ensure service users are assessed at various stages, support needs identified and follow through to meet their needs.
As a Welfare Support Officer within our East Ridings branch your main duties will be to ensure service users are supported at various stages of their Asylum application process including any safeguarding and welfare issues. The role is to provide practical and emotional support to service users, monitoring service users’ wellbeing and support needs and ensuring all records are updated and accurate for home office audit purposes. It is essential to maintain boundaries and being resilient to ensure a professional and a well-defined service is provided to always meet the needs of the service users.
There is an expectation that any candidates will need to undertake OOH duties. This includes being on ‘standby’. This is paid at £30 per weekday and £50 weekend day. They may be a requirement to attend properties / service users during OOH. This is paid at x 1.5.
Role Criteria:
All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.
Benefits we can offer you
Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact Beth Dunford on beth.dunford@mearsgroup.co.uk
Mears Group is a Disability confident employer and recognises our people as our greatest asset, we hire individuality, recognising and valuing everyone is individual and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all regardless of social economic background or individual make up.
As part of the recruitment process for this role, we will carry out a DBS & BPSS check, as well as Security Clearance. For these checks to be completed, we will require from you the relevant identification, including Proof of Address, References, a valid passport and proof that you have lived in the UK for the last 5 years.
About the company
Mears Group plc is a housing and social care provider.
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