Waking Night Worker

Waking Night Worker

£27,007.50

Southwark

About Us

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing is one of the UK`s leading providers of affordable hous-ing and care and support services. We employ over 1900 people to manage and develop our large portfolio of nearly 56,000 homes serving over 75,000 customers across London, the East Midlands, Southern and the East of England.

About the role of Waking Night Worker

This is a Fixed Term role with end date on 31/03/2026.

As a Waking Night Worker you will join our team, providing support to vulnerable adults, living with forensic mental health and/or complex needs in London Borough of Southwark.

Our service provides accommodation for adults with forensic mental health and/or complex needs. Our service’s aims are to enable people to return to and remain in the community and function at optimal levels of independence by providing high support. Within this, the service

-Assesses, addresses and maximises skills required for daily life in the community

-Reduces social isolation, promotes self-esteem and self-reliance

-Provides stable medium to long term housing accommodation

-Works with individuals and their circle of care to prepare for a move to longer term more independent living.

Customers may have a forensic background and be on a Mental Health Act section or subject to other formal restrictions.

You will be closely working with our customers, enabling them to live as independently as possible, whilst supporting them to lead an active and fulfilled life.

This is a full-time position working around a rota, including work during weekends and bank holidays.

What you'll need to succeed

To be successful in this role you will have a passion for working closely with people with forensic mental health and/or complex needs and want to constantly promote and support our customers’ well-being.

You will need the following skills and experience to the role:

-Experience of delivering support to vulnerable individuals, with forensic mental health and/or complex needs.

-Experience in creating, reviewing and implementing support plans and risk assessments.

-Good verbal and written communication skills.

-As all of our records are recorded on a central IT system, confidence at learning new IT skills is also required.

-Ability to conduct reports within a deadline.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers we will complete an enhanced background check with the Disclosure and Barring service, which will include a check of the Adult Barred list, once an offer of employment is made. A new check will be completed every three years.

What you need to do now

If you`re interested in this role, take a look at the attached Job Description for more details and if it`s the ideal job for you, click `apply now` to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV.

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra a day off
Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
Cycle2work scheme
Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation
About us

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-

Gender
Ethnicity
LGBTQ+
Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

For a full breakdown of company benefits, please see the attached Benefits Digital Booklet