Support Workers (Mansfield)

Job title: Support Workers (Mansfield)

Location: Mansfield
Hours: 14.8 - 22.2 hours per week (part-time)
Salary: £24,724 - £27,232 FTE per annum (Up to £14,834.40 – £16,339.20 per annum for 22.2 hours per week)
Contract type: Temporary until 31st March 2026
Closing date: 9th October 2024
Interview date: 14th October 2024

Our client has an exciting opportunity for Support Workers to join their project team, supporting people to reduce their financial pressures and stress - leading to improved mental health and wellbeing. The project will be delivered in Mansfield and London. They are looking for 2 Support Workers to work specifically in Mansfield.

Your impact:

You will deliver face to face 1-2-1 sessions and group workshops in a wide range of community venues in Mansfield, achieving a range of positive outcomes including: increased income; reduced financial pressures and stress; increased skills, knowledge and confidence around cooking, eating and heating in an energy efficient and healthy way; reduced energy use and savings on energy bills; increased awareness around energy safeguarding, gas safety and the dangers of carbon monoxide, contributing to improved safety at home; increased awareness of and engagement with other local support services.

Your skills (for details check the job description and person specification):

You will have experience of designing and delivering community based activities that achieve positive outcomes for individuals and their families. You will be able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and sustain relationships with colleagues, partners and stakeholders.

What will our client offer you?

They offer flexible working hours, a generous pension scheme and leave entitlements, eye care vouchers, a cycle to work scheme and other great benefits. They have an excellent wellbeing offer and will invest in your professional development with on-going quality training and career development opportunities. They have six staff diversity networks that offer peer support and contribute to the strategic development of EDI. You’ll join an established, supportive and high-performing service and have the opportunity to thrive in an innovative organisation that values your opinion, encourages learning and has the needs of children and families at its core.

They are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. They are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all they do and operates with mutual respect. If you share these values and behaviours and have the necessary skills, then they look forward to hearing from you.

Our client’s commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:

They are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that they do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because they are committed to increasing the representation of these groups. They know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for their workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities they support. They offer a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum scoring criteria and will reimburse any reasonable travel costs associated with attending an interview.

Appointments are subject to satisfactory Safer Recruitment checks, including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check where appropriate to the role.

Other organisations may call this role Workshop Facilitator, Community Workshop Co-ordinator, Workshop and Support Facilitator, Community Outreach Worker, or Community Engagement Facilitator.

So, if you’d like to join our client as a Support Worker, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.