Outreach worker - Rough sleepers - Coventry City
Onsite
£14.82 ph
Job Purpose:
* To provide support through outreach and street intervention working with support services and agencies to improve pathways for individuals who are street homeless to access suitable accommodation and services.
* To work as part of a team providing additional outreach capacity in order to work collaboratively with new or entrenched rough sleepers in Coventry. The outreach workers will be responsible for co-developing and monitoring support plans for rough sleepers on their caseload.
* To work with a defined agreed case load of up to 10 individuals at one time (up to 20 individuals over a year) providing intensive support that focusses on recovery
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
1. As part of a team to provide outreach support and intervention to rough sleepers in a positive, persistent, proactive and assertive way to secure meaningful engagement to bring about sustained and improved behavioural change/outcomes for them
2. Contribute to holistic assessments of the needs of rough sleepers and contribute to the development of support plans accordingly
3. Work in partnership with existing agencies including police, housing providers, benefits agency, drug and alcohol services/workers, sex worker services as wel...