Homeless Support Worker (Specialist)

LOCATIONS: Kensington & Fulham

SALARY: £12.46 inclusive of holiday

DURATION: Temp to Perm

HOURS: Up to 40 hours per week (Rota Basis)

Daily Duties

  • Provide care to customers living within the homeless sector. Supporting both male and female customers with complex needs. This includes health, mobility, alcohol dependency, mental health and substance misuse
  • Assess customers over a 12 to 13-week period with the aim of identifying their support and housing needs. Carrying out a detailed assessments to ensure that the recommendation for move on into supported housing is captured correctly.
  • Support those with complex needs including learning difficulties, substance misuse, mental health conditions and homelessness
  • enable vulnerable people living in a variety of different tenures to manage their tenancies/ licences and move towards greater independence within the community by providing a flexible and individually tailored support package
  • Liaise with partner agencies in regard to the assessment process seeking advice and guidance as to specialist input and clinical input as part of multi disciplinary assessment process
  • Create support/ action plans for providing appropriate services based on the assessment and reflecting the services and resources available
  • Empower customers to be part of the local community and active participants in the local community as part of a Recovery Capital model
  • Liaise with partner agencies in regard to making referrals where an unmet need has been identified via the multi agency assessment
  • Ensure that referrals are chased proactively so that properties which can be used to house those in need are filled as efficiently as possible
  • Undertake key-working responsibilities for a caseload
  • Support customers to undertake all domestic tasks as past of the assessment of daily living skills, including practical assistance where they have not yet developed the skills, to ensure customers enjoy a high quality of accommodation

Essential requirements

  • DBS within the last 12 months (must have original copy)
  • Previous residential support
  • Caring and compassionate towards people in need of care and support