We're looking to recruit a Housing First Practitioner in the Wirral area to join a specialist homelessness and housing support service on an ongoing, temporary basis. This is a 35 hour per week (Monday to Friday), required to work 1 in every 6 weekends.
You'll provide wrap‑around, flexible, and open‑ended support to people who have experienced homelessness or rough sleeping, helping them to sustain tenancies, accessmunity services, and work towards personal goals. The role involves a blend of outreach, home visits, office‑based work, and home working.
Your new role
1. Build trusting, professional relationships with people experiencing homelessness or insecure amodation.
2. Deliver intensive, strengths‑based and person‑centred support.
3. Provide practical tenancy sustainment support (benefits, budgeting, appointments, amodation).
4. Identify and manage risks through dynamic risk assessment.
5. Work collaboratively with landlords, health services, support agencies andmunity partners.
What you'll need to succeed
6. Experience supporting vulnerable adults facing homelessness, rough sleeping or multipleplex needs.
7. Knowledge of substance use, mental health, welfare benefits, housing pathways or homelessness law.
8. Strong understanding of trauma‑informed and strengths‑based practice.
9. Confident in assessments, support planning, risk management and safeguarding.
10. Ability to manage challenging behaviour with empathy and professional boundaries.
11. Experience helping individuals sustain tenancies and engage with services.
12. Confident lone working, organising a caseload and working in themunity.
13. Strong partnership‑working skills with multi‑agency partners.
What you'll get in return
14. Weekly pay
15. Hybrid working, both out in themunity and from home
16. Mileage reimbursement