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Project Worker - South Camden

Reference: OCT20171626
Expiry date: 2017-10-27 10:00:00.000
Location: London
Salary: £24,135.00 - £27,648.00 Per Annum
Benefits: Pension scheme, voucher schemes, initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance and commitment to learning and professional development
Duration:Fixed-term contract up to 1 December 2018
Attachments: PW-SouthCamdenOct17.pdf

Project Worker – South Camden Mental Health Accommodation Services

Fixed-term contract to 1 st December 2018

£24,135 - £27,648 per annum

37.5 hours per week

South Camden Mental Health team provides an accommodation based support service to clients with mental health support needs. We provide housing and support for our clients who have a combination of enduring mental health needs and other support needs. We provide therapeutic environments that consider the client's needs beyond medication and housing. In line with St Mungo’s recovery approach, the service places the client’s aspirations at the heart of its work.

The support service has a combination of 24/7 accommodation projects, projects with offices staffed 24 hours a day, and step down accommodation without offices on site.

We're looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dedicated project worker to join the service. As the post-holder, you will be working in partnership with a multidisciplinary team of support staff, specialist staff and external partners and will be responsible for supporting the working shift pattern of the hostel, whilst holding a case load of clients from the hostel. Flexibility is required, as you’ll be working a shift rota that includes weekends and public holidays.

The successful candidate will have previous experience within a similar environment and an understanding of the needs of homeless people, especially those with complex needs. Enthusiasm, a team player and a can do and a non - judgemental approach are essential for the successful post holder. In order to be able to establish an effective working relationship with clients, you should also possess good interpersonal and listening skills. Good numeracy, I.T and written communication skills; which will include report writing and producing support plans are also required.

In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and flexible working to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities; in support of their personal and professional development.

If you believe that you have what we are looking for, and have an interest in working for a charity which makes a real difference to the lives of people who are homeless, we would love to hear from you.

To find out more and apply please go to www.mungos.org/current_vacancies

Closing Date: 10am, Friday 27 October

Interview and Assessment Date: tbc

Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.

At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2017, we are also proud to have been awarded BITC 2017 Race Equality Award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.