Housing Support Worker Cardiff, Wales
Job description
Cadwyn is a community housing association based in Cardiff. We are a diverse business with experience in social housing management and development, social lettings, market lets and sales, commercial regeneration and an amazing recycling project.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Housing Support Worker to join our Housing Services team, which is a multi-functional team and is responsible for an number of areas including lettings, tenancy management, financial and digital inclusion, tenant engagement, support and neighbourhood services.
As a Housing Support Worker, you will be expected to want to look after the well-being of people in their daily lives, to help them settle in their home and support them to be an inclusive part of their community. Your support means the people you support have choice and control in their lives. This could be by helping them to feel settled in their home, aiding their hobbies and interests, connecting them with suitable community groups, enabling them to attend college or encouraging them to develop a new life skill such as cooking or money management. Youll enable people to overcome their fears and challenges whilst helping them to build confidence and self-esteem. To achieve this, understanding how the person understands the work, how they communicate and knowing their likes and dislikes is an important part of the job.
Being a support worker can be a very rewarding job. Even though the role can be hard and often challenging, making a positive difference to someones life and helping them become more independent brings feelings of accomplishment and satisfaction. Its a great career choice for those who enjoy a varied job role and lots of interaction with others. Some of the best parts of the job are sharing new experiences together, creating new memories and celebrating successes.
At Cadwyn the majority of our staff work in an agile way, working mostly at home (if appropriate to the role) with the ability to hot desk at one of our three sites across Cardiff or to work from any other suitable/convenient location.
What we offer:
- The chance to work for an organisation with strong values: Kindness, Honesty, Fairness and Respect
- A great permanent opportunity, with a working week of 35 hours
- 25 days holiday per year (increasing to 30 with length of service), plus bank holidays
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Agile and flexible working opportunities
- Ongoing training and development at a pace to suit you
- Access to a great Pension Scheme
- Medicare health cash plan
- Health and wellbeing support
- An annual flexible cash benefit
- A cycle to work scheme
What we need:
- Someone who can help people to reach their potential by forming meaningful connections and bring about opportunities to help them grow and thrive.
- Someone who has patience and sees the value people can bring if given time.
- A professional who is also a coach and community bridge-builder.
- Willingness to support Cadwyn's values.
Other useful information:
- Please click link to download the job description - Housing Support Worker - Job Description.docx
- Please click link to download the person specification - Housing Support Worker - Person Specification - May 2023.docx
- Please click link to download Cadwyn's values - cadwyn values square.pdf
- Closing date: 5.00pm Wednesday 17th May 2023
- Interviews: 24th May 2023
- Other: A basic DBS check will be required for this post
Want to find out more? Please get in touch with Stacey Anastasi, Neighbourhood Housing Manager via email [email protected]
Please note that once you begin your application you will not be able to save your progress and return to this at a later date. We therefore recommend you have your CV and covering letter (outlining how you meet the requirements of the role) prepared prior to starting the process as you will be required to attach these. You will also be asked for your personal details and equality information as part of the application process.
If you have any questions please contact the HR Team via [email protected], we're delighted that you're interested in joining Cadwyn and wish you the very best of luck with your application.
Cadwyn is committed to the Principles of Equal Opportunities, Tenant Participation, Professionalism, Openness and Accessibility and welcomes applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, colour, disability, ethnic or national origins, marital or parental status, nationality, political belief, race, religion or sexual orientation.
All Black, Asian and ethnically diverse applicants, LGBTQ+ applicants, candidates with disabilities and tenants who meet the minimum requirements of the job as set out in the Job Description and Person Specification will be guaranteed an interview.
