Your new company
You will be joining an established organisation which places the service user at the heart of everything they do. This organisation is focused on supporting vulnerable people in the community. This organisation primarily supports service users whose lives have been held back by a range of social deprivation.
Your new role
The post holder will work in the community as part of a multidisciplinary team, and in close partnership with rough sleeping and street-based services, to proactively engage with individuals with physical and/or mental health issues and involved in drug and alcohol use and rough sleeping.
* To co-ordinate and lead a proactive solution focused approach to clients with a view to engaging them in appropriate services, moving them away from rough sleeping, and preventing their return to street-based living.
* To identify and establish contact with people who rough sleep and/or beg, working within protocols to rapidly assist service users through street outreach shifts at a variety of times and a range of locations.
* To identify and establish contact with individuals who have experienced multiple exclusion homelessness rough sleep and have been rough sleeping for a long term, including those who have not been able to previously engage with services, and provide them with outreach services.
* To carry a case load of complex clients and develop personalised action plans (identifying goals, aspirations and recovery focused interventions) that ensure clients are discouraged from rough sleeping.
What you'll need to succeed
Must have worked in an "Outreach worker role" previously.
Also worked for a substance misuse service.
What you'll get in return
Full time hours
Competitive rate What you need to do now
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