Job Title: Homeless Support Worker
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Industry: Social Care - Homelessness - Asylum Seekers & Young People
Key responsibilities of a Homeless Support Worker
In this Homeless Support Worker job, your responsibilities will include:
- To provide dedicated housing support to keep service users within their tenancies and improve long term goals
- As well as housing knowledge you will need to have specialist knowledge around drug and alcohol, mental health, domestic violence and provide support to people in their homes to improve their engagement in treatment services.
- To utilise case managements skills to provide coordination of interventions and activities to empower the recovery of individuals accessing services.
- Deliver activities and interventions which may be alongside peers in line with personal budgets.
- To work collaboratively with external partner agencies to provide support to Service Users that meets their needs through all stages of their individual recovery journey
- To carry out duties in line with organisational policies and procedures
Skills & experience of a Homeless Support Worker
- Proven track record of working In a homeless service or substance misuse before - dealt with a caseload and support sessions
- Car driver is necessary as travel around Chesterfield is essential
- Holds an enhanced DBS child and adult cleared - Issued In the last 12 months or on the update service
- Available to work on a temporary on-going basis - potential to be temporary to permanent
If you feel you meet the above criteria please apply within, anything other questions you can call the office on and ask for Alisha.
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