* Employer: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
* Salary: £33,470 - £35,369 (plus shift allowance and weekend allowance)
* Location: No 1 Mann Island
* Contract: Temporary, fixed-term until 31 March 2028
* Hours: 35 hours per week
* Working Pattern: Evenings / Full Time / Weekends
* DBS Check: Enhanced
* Closing Date: 28/05/2026 23:59
* Reference: LCRCA/26/337292
About the Role
The Housing First Practitioner is responsible for coordinating and providing personalised, trauma‑informed support in line with the Housing First Principles to individuals with multiple complex needs. The focus is to provide intensive support and practical help to enable clients to maintain their tenancies and clarify goals.
Key Responsibilities
* Establish open and trusting relationships with individuals who are or have been homeless or in temporary/insecure accommodation, and who are experiencing complex issues.
* Support individuals to achieve their goals through intensive, strength‑based case management, ensuring a client‑led plan of support that includes professional rationales.
* Enable service users to access community resources, removing barriers to engagement within mainstream services.
* Provide positive, practical and emotional support to improve engagement.
* Develop an enabling partnership approach that supports all people using the service to attain rights and entitlement.
* Actively identify strengths, assets and aspirations of individuals and enable, encourage and empower access to relevant opportunities and services.
* Work across the whole of Wirral and occasionally cover other parts of the Liverpool City Region.
Key Qualifications & Experience
* Understanding and experience of working in a trauma‑informed way and the ability to establish open, trusting relationships while working assertively and empathetically with people who have enduring and complex support needs.
* Ability to adapt and work responsively with service users, supporting them to articulate goals and aspirations.
* Ability to develop working partnerships to gain the most positive outcome for the person you are supporting.
Eligibility & Equality
We offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates who have declared that they are a disability, Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background, care‑experienced, a reservist or have close family links to a member of the Armed Forces.
Benefits
* Local Government Pension Scheme contributions between 5.5% and 12.5%
* Generous holiday entitlement of 29 days, rising to 34 days after 5 years, plus bank holidays and the option to buy 10 additional days
* Free travel around the Liverpool City Region with an All‑Zone Metro card worth £1,450 per year, plus an All Zones Off Peak Trio ticket for your spouse/partner
* Flexible and hybrid working
* 24/7 access to an Employee Assistance Programme for you and your family, plus free counselling service
* Automatic enrolment to the Westfield Health Programme
* Corporate discounts at council‑owned gyms
* Bike to Work Scheme
* Coaching, mentoring and professional qualification support (paid membership fees and an interest‑free learning loan for non‑job‑related learning)
Other Information
We actively promote diversity and inclusion. Please note that this role is unlikely to meet the eligibility requirements for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. We recommend that you assess your eligibility before applying for this position. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa.
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