• LinkLiving - Support Worker (Short Term Housing Support)

  Created: 23/07/2024
  News/Events Category: Job Vacancies
  
  
  

  Post: Support Worker (Short Term Housing Support)

  Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday, and Saturday on a rota basis)

  Location: The office base of the position is West Bridge Mill, Kirkcaldy but the location is West Fife

  
  Are you passionate about helping people to live a better life? Do you want to work for a charity where your health and wellbeing matter just as much as the people you support? Do you want to be part of a trauma-informed team where you will be supported to develop creative and flexible ways of working? You don't need to have previous experience or qualifications in this field. If you share LinkLiving's values, this could be the role for you!

  LinkLiving's values and people are at the heart of everything they do including how they recruit our staff. It is important for them to find people who share their values, which are: empathy (listen to and understand an individual's needs and circumstances), respect (treat others the way they wish to be treated), integrity (be honest and have strong moral principles), and caring (show kindness and concern for others).

  LinkLiving is a Scottish health and wellbeing charity that supports people to manage or overcome the effects of negative life experiences (including trauma, mental health challenges, poverty, and inequality) so that they can build on their strengths and aspirations in order to live their best possible lives. They support people through a range of models including: 

  • Personal development and employability programmes 
  • Self-help coaching
  • Supported accommodation
  • Care at home
  • Housing support
  • Befriending
  • Social cafes

  The Service

  The Fife Visiting Support Services, Short Term Housing Support work with people in their own homes, sheltered housing, and temporary accommodation in the community throughout Fife to help them live independently, therefore access to a car and a full driving licence are essential. The Job Support Workers in the Fife Support Services, Short Term Housing Support are responsible for delivering a housing support service for up to 6 months to enable people to sustain their tenancy and live as independently as possible in their own homes. It is the Support Workers responsibility to develop effective relationships with people affected by a range of challenges, support them to cope in difficult times and enable them to live a good life. In doing so, to provide emotional, practical and social support to help people to live as independently as possible and make informed choices in all aspects of their lives.

  As a Support Worker in this service, you will support and assist service users to achieve outcomes in the following areas:

  • Income maximisation
  • Managing/sustaining a tenancy
  • Improved independent living skills
  • Accessing specialist support 
  • Reducing isolation 
  • Improved mental health and wellbeing

  What's in it for you?

  The benefits of being a LinkLiving employee (subject to the policies and benefit terms and conditions) include:

  • Competitive salary, reviewed annually, and opportunity for annual performance related salary increases and discretionary non-consolidated pay awards
  • Subject to terms of the scheme 35 days' holiday per year (inclusive of public holidays) pro rata plus additional three days' pro rata after three years' service, plus opportunity to buy and sell holiday
  • Enhanced company sick and family-friendly pay
  • Access to paid SVQ qualifications and a wide range of learning and development opportunities
  • Funded Disclosure Scotland and Scottish Social Services Council memberships
  • Defined contribution pension scheme with generous employer contributions plus salary exchange and additional voluntary contribution options
  • Access to an electric vehicle leasing scheme
  • Subject to the terms of the scheme life assurance scheme providing death in service benefits to named beneficiaries
  • Healthcare cash plan for employees (and dependents) to support health and wellbeing plus discounts on shopping, restaurants, and other services
  • Employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate household dependants to support health, mental and financial wellbeing
  • Annual flu vaccination
  • Access to a savings and borrowing scheme
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Monthly bus pass scheme and season/travel ticket loan

  For a full list of benefits available to employees, please see the following link - https://www.linkliving.org.uk/work-with-us 

  Successful applicants will be required to apply for registration with SSSC within three months of their start date and be registered within six months. This post is subject to Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme registration. Link will meet the cost of any new PVG scheme membership or scheme record update.

  If you have any questions about the role, please e-mail [email protected] and they'll arrange to have an informal chat.

  To find out more about what LinkLiving do and to view the generous pay and benefits package, please visit their website at https://www.linkliving.org.uk 

  How to apply 

  Find out more and complete an application online.

  Link offer alternative methods to apply if requested. You can request this by e-mailing [email protected] 

  Please note should an internal applicant be successful in applying for this position on either a seconded or permanent basis, they will move to the terms and conditions associated with the role for the duration of the time they are in post. The terms and conditions are outlined in the job information pack. Link aim at all times to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and from anyone who shares their commitment to inclusion. Their offices are fully accessible to wheelchair users and, as a Disability Confident Leader, they will interview all disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria.

  The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 11 August 2024. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed at Link's office in Kirkcaldy.

  
  
  

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