Prison Resettlement Outreach Worker
We are recruiting for a Prison Resettlement Outreach worker to work for a charity based lient that is dedicated to supporting some of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged people in society through their services and projects across the South West.
The Prison Resettlement Outreach Worker will meet clients in prison, taking a person centered approach to encourage engagement with substance misuse services, mental health services, and probation. They will take an assertive approach to prevent losing contact with rough sleeper’s post-release, ensuring they have suitable accommodation for their support needs.
Main Responsibilities;
To undertake assertive outreach and hot spot visits across the locality area including during unsocial hours, maintaining a regular street presence
To track the progress of the referrals made in respect of identified rough sleepers
To build relationships with people who are rough sleeping, using inter-agency outreach sessions and regular visits to agencies/venues visited by people who are rough sleeping
To give clients advice, information and provide an enabling service so that they can access appropriate services
To carry out risk assessments and complete Housing Benefit forms for rough sleepers moving into designated accommodation services
To recognise indications of substance misuse, mental health needs, personality disorder behavioural issues and make appropriate referrals to relevant agencies
To promote and facilitate effective multi-agency and joint working to address begging, street drinking and other street-based activity
The focus of this role is to support rough sleepers who are imprisoned, by staying in contact during their sentence, identifying and arranging appropriate accommodation in advance of their release date. As a result, this post will see a reduction of homeless reoffending, and rough sleepers returning to prison.
The successful post holder will work closely with substance misuse services, mental health services, Probation, HMP Bristol and HMP Eastwood Park, and Avon and Somerset Police.
The Prison Resettlement Outreach Worker will work as an integral part of the Outreach team, contacting new, repeat and entrenched rough sleepers in Bath, implementing a locally agreed approach to No Second Night Out.
To Be Successful You Will Have The Following Experience:
Work flexibly towards creative solutions in a person-centred way with individuals who may have seemingly intractable problems
Build effective relationships with clients and services in order to develop pathways to enable clients to make positive changes
Set boundaries, challenge appropriately and manage conflict constructively
Ackerman Pierce calls upon over 15 years’ worth of experience in recruiting directly into the public sector. We can offer a unique experience within recruitment where you have your own personal consultant, a DBS and Compliance service with a quick and easy registration process. We pride ourselves on a guaranteed weekly payment process.
