Job Title: Support Assistant
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary : £25,673.65 per annum
Working Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Working Pattern: 4-week rolling rota, with shifts 7am-3pm and 2pm-10pm. This includes every other weekend and some bank holidays.
Location: Regent House, Chatham, Kent

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone with:

• Experience of working with people in a customer facing environment
• An understanding of supporting vulnerable people – this could include having your own lived experience of homelessness or drug or alcohol addiction

We use Psychologically Informed approaches and Trauma Informed Care principles to support our customers to make positive choices, develop new ways of thinking and take steps towards independence, by:

• Assisting in the planning and delivery of a range of personalised support and move-on plans
• Understanding the risk management process and assisting the team to organise and undertake regular reviews of support and risk
• Inspiring and motivating customers to meet agreed outcomes and develop life skills
• Assisting customers with day-to-day support and tenancy-related matters
• Assisting the team to identify and promote opportunities for employment, education and training and support customers to access them
• Signposting customers to appropriate external support services, such as food banks and other community resources
• Supporting customers to be ‘tenancy ready’, enabling successful move on
• Supporting customers to be financially independent through budgeting plans and maximising income
• Supporting and monitoring customers’ healthcare needs, ensuring appropriate contact with healthcare professionals
• Empowering customers to move towards self-management of their medication by following Riverside’s medication procedure
• Maintaining and updating clear, accurate and strengths-based records on the appropriate digital platform
• Assisting in the promotion of customer involvement and consultation
• Assisting with the delivery of a range of group work sessions