Your newpany
We’re looking for a passionate and proactive colleague to join the Barnet Service as an Outreach Worker. This is a fantastic opportunity to build on your experience supporting people and make a meaningful impact on their lives.
Your new role
1. To engage with a range of individuals who have adopted ‘ street-based living’, including rough sleepers and beggars with a view to engaging them in appropriate services and moving them into more settled lifestyles.
2. Increase service user choice, service user involvement and empower service users to maintain sustainable change; working collaboratively and proactively to ensure that services are fully co-ordinated and are working collectively towards the achievement of goals and positive oues for each individual client.
3. To build and develop service users’ personal strengths and social networks in the UK and/or in the individual’s country of origin.
4. To provide a range of flexible and effective interventions to engage with hard to reach service users.
Key Duties
5. To identify and establish contact with rough sleepers and beggars, working
6. Within protocols to rapidly assist service users through street outreach shifts at a
7. Variety of times and a range of locations.
8. To identify and establish contact with entrenched rough sleepers, including
9. Those unwilling to engage with services, providing assertive outreach.
10. To assist homeless service users in being discharged from hospital at an
11. Appropriate time by moving them into appropriate amodation as quickly as possible.
What you'll need to succeed
12. Understanding of the needs of people who are rough sleeping and/or begging
13. In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following: substance misuse, alcohol misuse, mental health
14. Understanding of service users who have multiple andplex needs.
15. Understanding the importance of multi-agency working within a strength based on an asset-building approach and maintaining professional boundaries
16. Experience of facilitating multi-agency meetings
What you'll get in return
17. Full time hours
18. Weeklypetitive pay