Job description

Location: Logos House

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Contract: Permanent

Interview Date: To be confirmed

Logos House is a short stay service that supports people to achieve their long-term goals. We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our Support Team. As a Support Worker you will empower individuals to overcome the barriers they face, achieve their aspirations and support them to move on towards independent living.

Key Responsibilities: Using a person-centred approach and therapeutic alliance, you will support and empower individuals to sustain their journey of recovery from homelessness and achieve lasting change. The successful candidate will have a working knowledge of; causes of homelessness; addiction behaviour; the cycle of change; and understand the barriers people face in moving on. They will also be able to use excellent communication skills and initiative to support the needs of our vulnerable clients.

All Support Workers are required to fulfil Duty Management and on call duties on a rota basis.

The successful candidate(s) will be able to demonstrate:

  • Knowledge of the main support needs which are commonly faced by homeless and vulnerable clients
  • An understanding of working in a psychologically informed way
  • The ability to take the lead and make decisions
  • Ability to work in busy environment, be solution focused, show good time management skills and can demonstrate ability to prioritise and make decisions under pressure
  • Good verbal and written communication skills and proficiency in range of IT Packages including Microsoft