Housing Support Worker Nights - Ravenswood

Housing Support Worker Nights

Ravenswood Service – Kirkintilloch, East Dunbartonshire

35 Hours per week | £21,933.60 per annum (pro rata) | Permanent

Closing Date: Thursday 21 December 2023

Job Reference: REQ00658

Do you want to make a difference by helping us to improve lives?

Can you be a great team member and be supportive, creative and excellent at what you do?

Then why not join our fantastic organisation and be part of a first-class team delivering quality care and support.

Here at The Mungo Foundation, we are proud to be one of the most diverse providers of social care and support for vulnerable people in Glasgow, West Central Scotland and beyond. At any one time across our fantastic projects, we are supporting up to 1,500 individuals, their families and communities helping them to live better lives.

Our Ravenswood Housing Support Service based in Kirkintilloch provides temporary supported accommodation and follow-on outreach support to homeless households with additional support needs.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a committed and self-motivated Housing Support Worker Nights who is enthusiastic with the ability to effectively ensure that they deliver safe, compassionate, and high-quality support to the individuals who use the service. The successful candidate will be a good communicator, enthusiastic and positive working towards addressing support needs such as health and well being, emotional and psychological trauma and crisis intervention.

Shift working, including weekends, is a requirement of the post. Flexibility and short notice working may be required.

You should possess excellent communication skills; have the ability to work as part of a team and on your own initiative.

Qualifications or experience are not essential. We offer excellent support, training and a salary of £11.10 per hour.  We also offer an £800 joiner bonus, after successful completion of probation.

If successful but unqualified, you will have to work towards a suitable qualification for a post at this level, in line with the SSSC Regulatory requirements but don’t worry we will support you with this.

We value our staff very highly.  Alongside competitive terms and conditions we also offer membership of a great employee benefits’ scheme – Mungo Money.  Joining Mungo Money provides full access to supermarket, fuel, cinema, restaurant discounts, discounts off your next family holiday, savings on gym memberships and equipment, Cycle to Work scheme and so much more.  We also offer access to a credit union and workplace pension plus numerous training and development opportunities, including SVQ registration level qualifications.

If you feel you have what it takes to fulfil the criteria, please complete and submit a My Profile Form which can be found at the below link;

https://www.themungofoundation.org.uk/join-our-team/my-profile/

Appointments are made subject to satisfactory membership of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme, SSSC registration and appropriate safer recruitment checks. We will guide you through this.