Support Coordinator

Description:

Want to be part of a team that really cares and empowers you to help change a customer’s life for the better? Here at Kirklees Homeless Service (known locally at Clare House), we are a 24/7 service supporting our 22 customers who were homeless, to successfully move into permanent accommodation. You’ll make a big difference each day as you help our customers achieve their hopes and aspirations. Amazing we know!

Typical shift as our Support Coordinator
 

• Assisting customers with practical, daily living tasks to develop their independence, helping them to achieve the goals, aspirations and outcomes documented in their support plans.
• Helping customers with daily living activities such as making meals, shopping, budgeting, maintaining their tenancy and moving onto independent accommodation if they are able.
• Carrying out risk assessments, support planning, goal setting and regular reviews.
• Cuppas, chats and catch ups. There’s no rushing from one customer to the next here! Plenty of time to work together with colleagues too.
   

Fancy going home each day knowing that you have helped change our customers lives for the better? You’ll do that here, working for one of the top ten Great Places to Work in the UK!

You bring
 

• Passion to support our customers to live their best life, working together with an eye for detail.
• Experience of caring for others, you may have worked in care before or have experience of caring for others such as family members or children.
• The ability to work on your own initiative, remain calm under pressure and have a resilient approach.
• Recognise every customer is different and you’re able to adopt a flexible, personal approach, listening to customers to understand their needs.