Link Worker – Home Presence
Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours. Part time hours options of 24 or 30 hours may be considered.
Pay: £20,552 per annum or pro rata
Job Type: Fixed term contract, initially for 12 months.
Do you want to work in a role where you can support people, helping them to help themselves?
Due to funding from the Reaching Communities Fund, Vennture is seeking additional link workers to expand its Family Mentoring Team. The Link Worker will work alongside families who are finding things tough and need support to overcome the barriers they are facing to reach their full potential. Using our high impact relational approach and with support from well-trained volunteers you will work directly with these people and will follow a proven process that helps them face their problems and realise their own resources. Our vision is to ‘Help people to help themselves’. You will be required to monitor progress towards the outcomes they have set for themselves and evidence their steps forward.
The role requires excellent communication skills, the ability to manage a demanding workload and most important of all – genuine hard-edged compassion and understanding. It requires a resourceful, creative approach to problem solving and the ability to stick with people through thick and thin. You will be working in a supportive team, with strong, appropriate professional supervision and clear ethos based on ‘Loving People Better’. We want to show them unconditional love, help them rediscover hope and support them in making different and often challenging choices for themselves
If you are an inspirational and committed individual with a real desire to support people, we want to hear from you.
Vennture works with people of all faiths, and none. Our employees and volunteers are drawn from all sectors of society. Regardless, a Christian vision, ethos and principles underpin the way Vennture operates, and it is expected that the successful applicant will have empathy with and be able to embrace our Venn values of Faith, Love and Endeavour. They will connect to our sense of purpose and vision and be able to integrate swiftly and successfully into our hard working and friendly team and enjoy being part of a challenging and ground- breaking initiative.
Further information can be found in the job description or for more details you can e mail hilary.thomas@vennture.org.uk. An application form and the job description are available to download from our website http://www.vennture.org.uk/working-for-vennture/ or you can e-mail julia.over@vennture.org.uk to request this or phone the office on 0330 20 20 730.
The closing date for applications for this post is April 22 at 4pm. Shortlisting will take place on April 26 and interviews are scheduled for May 5.
Vennture Application Form Link Worker
Street Based Link Worker
(with a specialist triage function)
Hours: Full Time 37.5 hours. Some unsocial hours may be required.
Pay: £20,552 per annum
Job Type: Fixed term contract, initially for 12 months.
Do you want to work in a role where you can support people to rebuild their lives?
Vennture believes that people can and do recover from the issues created by homelessness.
Covid -19 has led to an unprecedented opportunity to reduce the numbers of Herefordshire’s rough sleeping and sofa surfing community and for the first time, each ‘homeless person’ has been identified, located, and through Venntures’ initiatives, is being engaged through a process of care that puts them in the lead.
Vennture is now looking for a Street Link Worker with a specialist triage function, who can further progress the work and support the housed homeless by building positive relationships and providing a network of care that will play a part in bringing transformation to their lives, whereby they can begin to imagine a more positive future, have a sense of belonging and of dignity and feel safe and secure.
We are looking for a highly motivated person with genuine hard-edged compassion and great communication skills who share our vision that transformation is possible.
The role will suit someone who has experience in dealing with rough sleepers with multiple needs and the ability to work with challenging behaviour. You will understand the issues faced by homelessness or vulnerably housed and the difficulties they experience. You will also have experience of solid safeguarding practice and working in partnership.
If you are an inspirational and committed individual with a real desire to support people to rebuild their lives, we want to hear from you.
Christian vision, ethos and principles underpin the way Vennture operates, and it is expected that the successful applicant will have empathy with and be able to embrace our Venn values of Faith, Love and Endeavour. They will connect to our sense of purpose and vision and be able to integrate swiftly and successfully into our high-performing and friendly team and enjoy being part of a challenging and ground-breaking initiative.
Further information can be found in the job description or for more details you can e mail lisa.charles@vennture.org.uk. An application form and the job description are available to download from our website http://www.vennture.org.uk/working-for-vennture/ or you can e-mail julia.over@vennture.org.uk to request this or phone the office on 0330 20 20 730.
The closing date for applications for this post is Wednesday April 28 at 5pm and interviews are scheduled for May 11.
