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Floating Support Coordinator
Up to £17,370
We are seeking Floating Support Coordinators to join our highly motivated team.
You will be responsible for delivering housing related support, encouraging independence in the community, to vulnerable people who may have complex or multiple needs including old people and people with generic needs. You will be developing need assessments and support plans which focus on enabling the customer to secure and maintain their home and sustain their tenancy.
If you are adaptable, self-motivated and a great team player with plenty of initiative and good communication skills we want to hear from you. Experience in this area of work would be an advantage; however, full training will be given if aptitude for the role is shown.
You will be part of an on call rota for an out of hour’s service and will need to drive your car for work.
Excellent benefits include 28 days holiday and final salary pension scheme. Closing date for applications Wednesday 30 July 2008.
Application Form
If you would like to apply to work with us, click here for our Application Form and Diversity Monitoring Form . These are PDF files and will open in a new window.
If you wish to apply for a post you should complete the application form. It can then be emailed to our Human Resources team or sent to the HR Department, Maidstone Housing Trust, Whatman House, St Leonard’s Road, Allington, Maidstone, Kent, ME16 0LS. Please do not submit a CV as we prefer to consider all applications on the basis of the information provided on a common application form and interview process. It is therefore important that you complete the form fully.
Job Description and Person Specification
The relevant job description for the post sets out the main duties and responsibilities and the person specification describes the skills, knowledge and experience required to carry out the role.
Completing the Application Form
Please complete all sections of the application form.
Section 7, The Supporting Statement is your opportunity to tell us why you are suitable for the job. You should tell us how you meet each of the criteria in the person specification by giving details of all your relevant experience, (paid or unpaid) knowledge, skills and abilities. If you have been out of work for a long time, or have never been in work, you may have acquired relevant skills and experience from being involved in community or voluntary work, through school or college activities, or by running your home.
We are interested only in what you did and achieved personally, not the work and achievement of the group or organisation in which you worked.
Please ensure that you address as fully as you can each of the criteria set out in the person specification. By assessing the information you give us in your application form against the criteria on the person specification, we shortlist for the next stage of the selection process.
References
Referees must be able to provide information about your suitability for the post. One referee must be your current or most recent employer. If you have been self-employed or employed by an organisation which has ceased trading, you should give the name, business address and business telephone number of an official (such as an accountant or bank manager) who can vouch for the period when you were self-employed and the information you have provided.
Please remember to state on the form if you do not want us to contact one or both of them before the interview.
Declaration
You must read and sign the declaration. A false declaration will disqualify you from appointment.
Closing Date for Applications
Make sure you return the application form by the closing date. Late applications will not generally be accepted.
Positive About Disabled People
The Trust is positive about employing people with disabilities. You are invited to tell us on the application form if you have a disability which might affect your ability to carry out the full duties of the post. Please tell us about any equipment or adaptations which could assist you to do the job and therefore to meet the requirements of the person specification. Any candidate with a disability who, with or without additional equipment or adaptations, meets the requirements of the person specification will be interviewed.
If you require any assistance if called to interview please give details on the application form.
Decisions on Shortlisting
If you are not called for interview within two weeks of the closing date you should assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Documentary Evidence
If you are appointed, you will need to produce evidence such as your birth certificate or passport to confirm your identity
Evidence of any qualifications given on the form will also need to be provided.
Medical Clearance
If offered a post with the Trust we will ask you to complete a health declaration form which is returned to the Trust’s Occupational Health Advisor. You may then be asked to attend a medical examination.
CRB checks
Some posts may require a Criminal Records Bureau check to be completed - this will be made clear on the post advert.
date published: 18/07/2008