POST: Housing Support Worker
LOCATION: Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire - Long Eaton & Swandlicote
Industry: Social Care - Homelessness
RESPONSIBLE TO: Service Manager
JOB PURPOSE:
To improve the lives of people using our services by providing direct support services to individual or groups of individuals. This includes being a point of contact with referring agents and partnership agencies to ensure effective liaison arrangements concerning individual support are continued and enhanced.
Key responsibilities of a Housing Support Worker
In this Homeless Support Worker job, your responsibilities will include:
- To provide dedicated housing support to keep service users within their tenancies and improve long term recovery outcomes.
- As well as housing knowledge, floating support workers will have specialist knowledge around drug and alcohol issues and provide support to people in their homes to improve their engagement in treatment services.
- To utilise case managements skills to provide coordination of interventions and activities to empower the recovery of individuals accessing services.
- Deliver activities and interventions which may be alongside peers in line with personal budgets.
- To work collaboratively with external partner agencies to provide support to Service Users that meets their needs through all stages of their individual recovery journey
- To carry out duties in line with organisational policies and procedures
Skills & experience
- Proven track record of working In a homeless service or substance misuse before - dealt with a caseload and support sessions
- Must have a sound understanding of the support needs of people in service
- Ideally need a car driver
- Holds an enhanced DBS child and adult cleared - Issued In the last 12 months or on the update service
- Available to work on a shift rota basis - 5 days over 7 including evenings and weekends
If you feel you meet the above criteria please apply within. For more details please call the office on 0121 631 5930 and ask for Alisha.
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