Our client, a homeless charity based in South West London, is currently seeking a P/T Housing Outreach Worker to join their team based in Tower Hamlets. In this crucial role, your focus will be on the service delivery of the charities housing model. You will work with staff and management teams to deliver this innovative model of housing to the most vulnerable people, you will help us drive forward a collective vision of inclusion and participation across the organisation.
Responsibilities include:
To contact, build and maintain pro-active working relationships with clients on the case load.
To be responsible for the day to day delivery of the project in accordance with agreed service delivery objectives, policies and procedures.
Arranging and carrying out assessment interviews with clients and other relevant parties
Negotiating support plans with each client; motivating clients to identify and work towards individual goals consistent with sustaining their tenancy and using the outcome to monitor goal achievement.
About you:
Experience of working with people that are homeless and/or rough sleeping working on shifts with outreach teams. Must have a good understanding of the risk management and planning needed when working in an outreach environment.
Have a creative, solution-focused approach to overcoming challenges.
Experience of multi-agency work, assessment of needs, and delivery of evidence-based interventions to support and empower people who are experiencing problems with substance misuse, poor sexual health, unhealthy relationships and hidden harm including unresolved trauma
Experience of assertive engagement with entrenched complex needs, able to work alongside outreach teams to build positive relationships with clients.
We are seeking applications from experienced Outreach Workers who are passionate about supporting vulnerable individuals and helping them achieve stability and independence. Please contact Langton N4P for further details on this position.
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