Exciting Job Opportunity At New Start
Our consortium colleagues at New Start are seeking to employ a Weekend Support Practitioner to provide support to homeless people with some complex needs.
New Start’s Adult Services comprise of a range of supported accommodation projects across the Liverpool area in which structured, housing-related support is facilitated by Keyworkers, running parallel with service user tenancies.
This is a part-time role (14 hours per week) covering the hours of 8am to 10:30pm across a 2-week rota. The salary is £10 per hour (part- time) at Prospect Lodge. The closing date for applications is 25th of October 2017.
The main duties include:
- To oversee the safety and security of the building, staff and residents working and residing at the service between the hours of 8am and 10pm
- To provide support to residents if situations arise during shift which require support.
- To respond immediately to incidents, accessing the support of the emergency on-call worker if necessary.
- To respond to each incident effectively accessing support from the relevant emergency service if and when required.
- Working within the recording requirements of the Mainstay System, updating relevant case notes and events for residents when necessary.
- To complete nightly health and safety checks including risk assessments and incident reports.
- To carry out clear reporting notes of activities throughout the night relating to security of the building and the welfare of each client.
- To take responsibility for the Health and Safety aspects of the building and residents whilst on shift and report any necessary incidents to the Project Manager as appropriate.
- To carry out administrative tasks as requested by support workers, management and or senior support worker.
- To provide health and safety support to support workers i.e. safe handling/disposing of sharps bins and other equipment.
- To act as Named First Aider and Fire Marshall.
- To participate in a standby rota on rolling basis with other staff members
This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check and registration with the DBS Update Service. If you would like to apply for this job or for further information about the role, please go to https://www.newstarthomes.org.uk/weekend-support-practitioner
