Barnet Mencap is an organisation based in Finchley who are committed to make difference to others lives.
We are passionate about helping people with autism or learning disability. We are seeking a motivated and compassionate individual to join our team as a team player. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in the role.
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: ADMINISTRATION
• Updating, and agreeing with service users, relevant reviews and assessments
• Recording and updating significant and relevant information on individual service users’ files
• Liaising with relevant staff regarding the completion of all benefit applications and rent payments made on behalf of the service users
• Writing letters and reports
• Liaise with other agencies and organisations
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: TENANTS
• Promoting and facilitating service user involvement in the running of Equality Housing, including decision making for future developments of the project and Barnet Mencap as an organization
• Taking account of service users’ views on all aspects of the service
• Using the time with service users to assess and monitor their individual needs
• Planning and implementing appropriate support and action plans to meet the needs of the service users
• Planning and implementing with the service users appropriate interaction to maintain and promote their individual development and to reach their full potential
• Encouraging service users towards responsibility for their physical well-being, safety of self and others in and outside their homes
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of service users’ situations, needs and progress
• Maintaining regular contact with specified service users as agreed
• Compiling, with service users, necessary reports
• At the direction of the Manager, assisting and covering in all areas of Equality Housing in times of colleagues’ absence due to sickness and holidays and to be part of an out-of-hours advice line and cover arrangement
• Encouraging service users to participate in local community events, to use local facilities and transport
• Knowledge on benefits and services current
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: MEETINGS
• Attending and participating in all meetings
• Keeping accurate records
• Follow agreed action plans
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: LIAISON & WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
• Maintaining constructive working relationships with the service users to promote their welfare and development
• Maintaining constructive relationships with colleagues, families, officers and members of Barnet Mencap and other professional agencies to promote the welfare and development of the tenants
• Assisting service users in communication with benefit offices, job applications, social workers and others as relevant
• Working with other professional agencies e.g., psychologists and social workers, and to attend meetings at the direction of the Manager to promote the welfare and development of the service users
ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: PROPERTIES
• Reporting to the Manager or Deputy Manager any repairs or defects in service users’ homes relevant to own areas of responsibility
PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy is for a Mencap affiliated Network Partner and not for Royal Mencap Society. Network Partners sign up to a terms of membership and pay a membership fee to subscribe Royal Mencap Society’s Network and each local group is a separate and independent charity within their own right. As part of the group’s membership, they have the opportunity to advertise their vacancies on the Royal Mencap Society jobs website.
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