Social Interest Group

Social Interest Group (SIG) believes good care and support improve lives. We are a leading UK charity providing health and social care services.

Our values of ambition, empowerment, transparency, and inclusivity drive everything we do. Our mission is to empower people who are marginalised by building powerful partnerships and creative solutions that bridge gaps in provision and aid recovery, reablement and resettlement.

We work with people facing, living, or recovering from challenging life circumstances.

Our services are centred around the individual and developed around their needs and aspirations. We help with reablement, provide independent living, residential supported living and rehabilitation.

Employing around 500 colleagues, with over 40 different services around the UK, we deliver mental health services, complex care and support with issues like substance use. We offer community and residential services, some of them are bedded services.

We work collaboratively with hospitals, carers and councils.We provide thousands of people with support and care in temporary supported accommodation, drop-in centres, prisons, community floating support, criminal justice settings and hospitals awaiting discharge.

Our locations include bases in London, Kent, Sussex (Brighton), Luton, Bedford, Nottinghamshire and Liverpool.

Services provided

• Mental health
• Substance use
• Women services
• Criminal justice
• Homelessness and complex needs
• Personality disorder pathways

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Careers at SIG

We believe good care, support and well-planned services make a difference and improve lives. Our people and values of ambition, empowerment, transparency, and inclusivity drive everything we do. We work to high standards within external and internal regulatory frameworks.We believe in the people we support, empowering them to take ownership of their recovery plan and how we deliver their support to ensure treatment and care options meet their needs in a flexible and tailored way.

Support workers

For our support worker jobs we are happy to take on people who may not have direct working experience of the role. We do look for applicants to have had either work or lived experience of helping people with complex needs.Jobs available include ‘Support Mentors’. These provide an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of those in need. Support Mentors deliver intensive, trauma informed support and interventions to enable people to stay safe and make and sustain positive changes. You’ll be supporting people with complex needs and will be working in partnership with the local authority and street outreach teams.

‘Recovery Workers’ rehabilitate and reintegrate our Residents and Participants back into the community. You’ll be providing pathways, support, and appropriate interventions that will enable successful resettlements. Recovery Workers work closely with mental health services, other partner agencies and carers to improve living skills, increase social inclusion, and help individuals understand and manage their mental health in order to improve their quality of life. You’ll be engaged in personalized support around daily living skills such as budgeting, shopping, cooking, reminders to take medication and developing a structured weekly routine.

Our ‘Housing Support Worker’ jobs provide housing related support to vulnerable adults and those from various and complex backgrounds, to support them with independent living, providing a low-level preventative service, with support to improve their skills, resilience, and pathways to independence. Housing Support Workers are involved in providing effective outreach support to vulnerable adults to assist with tenancy sustainment, independent living, and promoting self-reliance.

Occupational therapists

Our jobs for Occupational Therapists support individuals with specific needs, and provide occupational therapy assessment through a level of contact, support, and supervision to enable and empower our residents to achieve their maximum levels of functional independence and enhance their sense of wellbeing. There are jobs for OTs in bedded residential properties where we deliver psychologically-informed housing and resettlement programmes as part of a step-down service for high and medium support for men and women.

Psychologists

We hire Forensic Psychologists for jobs often based in our bedded residential properties which specialise in forensic mental health, complex needs and dual diagnosis. Forensic Psychologists support individuals with specific needs, and offer a level of contact, support, and supervision to support our residents to reintegrate within society. They provide psychological assessments and support residents who have multiple and complex needs that need support from our staff teams to meet their personal goals.

Our Lead Psychologists shape, and enhance psychological practices across the organisation by working closely with various teams across SIG to foster the development and support of psychological interventions. Lead Psychologists manage a team of psychologists, clinical leads and nurses to provide comprehensive support and care to individuals of all ages facing a diverse array of psychological challenges in both mental and physical health realms.

You will help manage adults within acute and forensic mental health community based services and residential community based accommodation, as well as people residing in their own homes, in the community and prisons. The spectrum of conditions and illnesses includes people with trauma, anxiety, depression, psychosis, personality disorders, eating disorders, addictions, learning disabilities, autism, Korsakoff syndrome, alcohol related brain damage, and challenges related to social isolation, family dynamics, and relationships.

Career development

We pride ourselves in creating an open, nurturing and transparent working environment that offers growth.

Our People & Culture team can help you fulfil your career goals and thrive within your chosen role at SIG. Our P&C Team is responsible for building and embedding a positive and inclusive workplace culture that promises to help you fulfil your career goals and thrive within your chosen role at SIG.

Whether you’re an accomplished professional, a promising new talent, or just starting on the career ladder, you’ll find a sense of purpose, a supportive team, new challenges and varied work within your role at SIG.

Our comprehensive Learning and Development Programme offers training opportunities that allow you to advance, improve, and document your professional skills.We are confident that we pay men and women equally for doing equivalent jobs across our organisation. We continue to take action to address gaps and ensure our policies and practices are fair.

Culture and values

Our vision
A transparent caring world in which people have equity of access to a good home, health care, social support, and employment.

Our employee values

• Ambition
• Empowerment
• Transparency
• Inclusivity

SIG aims to create and sustain a workforce that reflects the people we support. We are therefore committed to ensuring that our workforce is diverse and that we embed equality and diversity as a core part of who we are.

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

At Social Interest Group, we aim to develop a genuine and meaningful approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion and to ensure an inclusive workplace is shaped.We’re committed to creating opportunities and reducing barriers for everyone, especially under-represented groups.

We are committed to providing non-discriminatory processes, whether at a recruitment level, through performance reviews, or promotional and remuneration areas.

SIG fosters a culture where every voice is welcomed, heard and respected and embeds inclusivity throughout our service delivery, programmes and day-to-day activities.

During induction periods, staff undertake mandatory online EDI training and complete cultural competence and unconscious bias awareness training.

Find out about our Pathways to Independence facility in Rochester.