Working hours: 40 hour per week
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Crichton House provides various outreach services to homeless people including outreach support, accommodation and floating support.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, compassionate and motivated individual to take on an exciting opportunity in the role of part-time Housing First Specialist Support Worker. Housing First provides permanent housing directly to street homeless individuals with ongoing assertive but flexible support, with a strong focus on harm reduction and sustainable tenancy within the community.
The Housing First Specialist Support Worker will work intensively with rough sleepers who have transitioned from the street into independent tenancies of their own as part of the Housing First Project. Support is life-long and provided intensively for as long as is required. You will work as part of a small, experienced team, empowering clients to achieve improvements in all areas of their well being, enabling them to make positive life choices and ultimately empower them to lead more sustainable lifestyles.
The service adheres to the following Housing First principles:
1. People have a right to a home
2. Housing and support are separated
3. The service is targeted at rough sleepers and those who demonstrate a repeat pattern of disengagement
4. Flexible support is provided for as long as it is needed
5. Individuals have choice and control
6. A harm reduction approach is used
7. An active engagement approach is used
8. The service takes a psychologically informed, trauma informed and gender informed approach
9. The service is based on people’s strengths, goals and aspirations
10. The widest range of services are involved