Harris Hill is delighted to be working with a homelessness charity to recruit a Roma Outreach Worker for their Kingston-based team.
Salary: £34,391 per annum
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week (Monday–Friday, with early mornings and late nights required for outreach shifts)
Driving licence: Essential
This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact by engaging directly with Roma individuals experiencing rough sleeping, supporting them to access services, secure accommodation and work towards independent futures. The charity has been delivering homelessness services for over 35 years, and this role forms part of their vital outreach work across South West London.
The Role
As Roma Outreach Worker, you’ll provide a consistent point of contact for rough sleepers, conducting street outreach and engaging individuals who may face barriers in accessing services. You will deliver culturally sensitive, personalised support, ensuring clients can navigate housing, welfare and healthcare systems.
Key responsibilities include:
* Conducting regular outreach shifts to identify and engage rough sleepers
* Building trust and sustaining long-term engagement with clients
* Delivering tailored casework support, including accommodation referrals and tenancy preparation
* Advocating for Roma clients around welfare rights, immigration and access to specialist services
* Working in partnership with local authorities, multi-disciplinary agencies and pan-London outreach teams
* Maintaining accurate case records and ensuring safeguarding standards are upheld
About You
We’re looking for someone with:
* Experience of working in homelessness, outreach or social care settings
* Emotional resilience and the ability to engage people with complex needs
* Knowledge of housing, welfare, substance misuse services and safeguarding
* Strong IT and record-keeping skills (CHAIN/Inform systems experience desirable)
* A creative, solution-focused approach and commitment to continuous improvement
* Language proficiency in Romanian, Romany or Italian (essential for this role)
* A full UK driving licence
Values
The organisation is guided by values of working together, aspiration, respect, determination and vision. They particularly encourage applications from candidates with lived experience and from diverse backgrounds, recognising the importance of cultural insight and representation in tackling homelessness.
For more information, please submit your CV to.
Please note, CVs are being reviewed on a rolling basis, and only successful applicants will be contacted with more information.
As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp™, Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.