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This is exciting opportunity to join us as a Mental Health Housing First Worker within housing services to assist in the reduction of rough sleeping/single homelessness in the city.
We are looking to recruit a highly committed and enthusiastic individual to provide high quality support to a caseload of individuals experiencing who have either extensive experience of rough sleeping or have spent a significant time within the mental health services due to having complex needs, supporting their engagement with local services in a coordinated approach.
You will provide direct support to a caseload of individuals facing multiple needs and exclusions and work closely with external partners to influence change in the way that local services coordinate responses for this group.
Using housing first principles you will coordinate creative accommodation solutions for customers who have typically struggled to maintain previous tenancies and who find shared living arrangements difficult to manage.
Other Responsibilities Will Include
* delivering wrap around intensive, trauma informed support to people with multiple and complex issues within their own independent tenancies in the community.
* coordinating support packages and making referrals / signposting to specialist agencies as appropriate and accompanying customers to services.
* adhering to safeguarding procedures with a positive risk-taking approach to ensure the well-being of the individuals.
* responsibility for the identification of risks and be able to demonstrate managing risk for self, colleagues and customers being supported.
This role is community based and requires outreach and client facing work across multiple locations in the City of York however your main base will be within the Union Terrace Hostel.
This post is not suitable as a job share opportunity.
The duties of this post require the postholder to undertake a basic Criminal Record check (unspent convictions only) via the Disclosure and Barring Service.
The Council is committed to investing in the talent and wellbeing of our staff and can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. We can offer flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities and, as part of our commitment to you, promote continuous Learning & Development. In addition we also offer a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings.
For further information or an informal discussion please contact Scott Canham, Housing First Senior Practitioner at Scott.Canham@york.gov.uk or on 07736158332.
Closing date: Monday 7 July at 12 midnight
Interview date: 15 July 2025
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