Overview
Support Worker – ,
Salary: £26,326 per annum (plus London Weighting Allowance £4,425 per annum) pension and excellent benefits
Job Type: fulltime
Are you a natural Support Worker with strong people skills? Keen to make a positive difference to people’s lives?
We have a fantastic opportunity for 2 enthusiastic and compassionate Support Workers working a minimum of 40 hours per week (some of which will be unsocial) to join our team based at our Supported Housing Service in Croydon and Wembley on a permanent basis. Dorado is a housing service that provides housing and tenancy services for males with convictions. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £26,376 per annum and £4,425 PA London Weighting plus excellent benefits. Langley Trust gives you support and free training to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day.
REWARDS PACKAGE
- SmartHealth – free online GP service 24/7.
- Up to 30 days annual leave (after 2 years’ service)
- Pension scheme, matched up to 8%
- Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
- Eyecare vouchers
- Flu vaccine vouchers
- Paid DBS and renewals
- Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
- Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice
- Chaplaincy and pastoral support
- Funded Health Cash Plan
- Flexible benefits package, including Holiday Trading and Cycle Scheme – can be tailored to meet your individual needs
- Menopause support
- Enhanced Maternity Pay
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Long Service Awards
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Key work and support clients generally within your service, and act as the Key Worker to designated clients as required.
- Ensure clients meet their weekly MoJ purposeful activity requirements.
- Support the Housing Officer to facilitate monthly house meetings and encourage client attendance.
- Take an active role in the assessment and management of risk including the operation of physical and situational security measures to control the level of risk posed to all relevant parties and liaising with other stakeholders as appropriate.
- Maintain a clear and calm manner whilst managing client risk through assessment, planning, client knowledge and de-escalation as required.
- Work with the allocated Housing Officer to collate Intensive Housing Plans for clients and to implement support plans.
- Regularly utilise the Trust ‘Client File’ with designated clients to ensure that they are supported, empowered to achieve appropriate outcomes and this is documented in the ‘Client File’ on and Eclipse.
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Closing date: 1st July 2025
About LANGLEY TRUST
For over 65 years Langley Trust has been supporting people with convictions to transform their lives. As a Christian charity working across England, we believe everyone deserves another chance. With a wide range of services – including complex needs care, supported housing, and specialist advice services – our work prevents crime, promotes rehabilitation, and reduces the risks of re-offending.
Diversity and Inclusion is integral to Langley Trust. We’re committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
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Still curious about how we do it, click What We Do
DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Level 2 Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.
We’re proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.
If you want to join our team, please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
A satisfactory Enhanced DBS with adult barred list check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
