Job Description
Ashberry Recruitment are please to be recruiting for a Floating Support Worker, to be based on The Wirral.
Carrying a small caseload, you will work as part of a small, dynamic team, including a locality manager who will provide supervision and support. The role may involve working with people on their journey from rough sleeping (via outreach work) through to finding and sustaining accommodation.
You will deliver high quality person-centered support:
* Establish open and trusting relationships with people who are/have been homeless or in temporary/insecure accommodation, and who are experiencing complex issues.
* Responsible for a manageable case load
* Support individuals to achieve their goals and outcomes through intensive strength-based case management and ensure everyone has a plan of support that is led by the individual. This is updated using 'every contact counts’ methodology.
* Enable service users to access community resources, support the removal of barriers to engagement within mainstream services. Provide positive, practical and emotional support to the individual to encourage and improve engagement.
* Develop an enabling partnership approach that supports all people using the service to attain their rights and entitlement.
* Actively participate in achieving defined outcomes for service users either in a 1-1 setting or through a multi-disciplinary approach. Leading on joint plans of support and joint safety and inclusion planning.
* Actively identify the strengths, assets and aspirations of individuals and enable, encourage and empower them to access relevant opportunities and/or services.
* Be responsible for the identification and recording of risks and be able to demonstrate you have considered risk mitigation through your own dynamic risk assessment and considered positive risk taking. To ensure safety and inclusion plans are shared with colleagues, and the individual being supported.
The role is Monday-Friday, with 1 weekend in 6 worked on a rota.
An enhanced DBS is essential for this role. If you do not have one, Ashberry Recruitment can process one for you.