Support Assistant - Cardiff Refuge
The Vacancy
Role overview:
- A service that is about much more than offering women a roof over their head. It's about giving them a safe and inclusive home and help to achieve their potential, transition into independent living, and engage in employment or education
- You’ll offer day-to-day emotional and practical support to motivate and empower women to gain independence and reach their full potential
- You’ll provide support and advice in line with support plans and as requested by the keyworker, working collaboratively as part of a team who embrace differences and creative thinking
What do you need to be considered for this role?
- The ability to engage and build strong relationships with women while understanding the impacts of homelessness, domestic abuse and trauma
- A forward-thinking attitude to crisis response
- The ability to remain calm and collected in challenging and traumatic situations
What’s in it for you?
- We are passionate about nurturing talent, our senior leadership team includes colleagues that have progressed through the business from entry level roles
- You’ll have access to a competitive benefits package including a maximum holiday entitlement of 40 days (including bank holidays)
- Enhanced Group Pension Scheme of 10% contributions (after qualifying period)
- You’ll also have free access to an internal wellbeing and counselling team
- You’ll have opportunities to diversify your skills and widen your experience across a range of services and niche roles including domestic violence service, employment support, training and skills tutoring
- You’ll have access to an extensive online training platform, as well as the chance to enrol on specific training in substance misuse, housing law, ACEs etc.
Reference: LLA962079
Contract: Part time, permanent
Hours: 23.5 hours per week, Support Assistants working a shift pattern including one night shift (4.45pm-9.45am) and one day shift (9.30am-5pm) per week. Between 11.30pm and 7am can be sleeping hours as long as the project is settled, otherwise it would be expected that these would be waking hours, as needed to support and safeguard our young people.
Location: Cardiff
This vacancy is open to females only (Exempt under the Equality Act 2010, pursuant to schedule 9, Part 1).
The Company
At Llamau we believe that no young person or vulnerable woman should ever have to experience homelessness. Our mission is to eradicate homelessness for young people and vulnerable women. But for thousands of the most vulnerable people in Wales, homelessness is a frightening reality.
30 years ago Llamau was founded to provide homeless teenagers with a safe place to stay. Since then, we have supported over 67,000 young people, women and their children who are either homeless or facing homelessness.
Many people think the job of a homelessness charity will be to provide accommodation - a safe place to stay. But it is very clear to us that for most people who are facing homelessness, their problems are far more complex than a lack of permanent shelter.
That's why we treat everyone who needs our support as an individual. We recognise their unique strengths and needs and make sure that they are supported to rebuild their futures.
Our Values
We are a values-led organisation which puts the people we support at the heart of the organisation. Our values mean that we can offer the highest quality support and empathy. Our values are:
- We Respect
- We Listen
- We Encourage
- We Learn
- We Don't Give Up
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