Service Co-ordinator Supported Housing
Salary £25,564 a year
Location Stoke-on-Trent
Hours per week 37.5
Contract type Fixed Term
As a Service Coordinator you'll support customers who have complex needs and/or are experiencing multiple disadvantage including: substance use, mental health, offending and rough sleeping/homelessness. You'll co-ordinate their access to a wide range of services and lead on the design and delivery of a service coordination plan alongside the customer and other essential agencies.
This is a fixed term role expected to last until March 2025 with the potential to last longer.
Job requirements
- Support customers with multiple and complex needs: - this may consist of homelessness or at risk of homelessness, substance use, offending, mental health, physical health.
- Lead on the customer's support package, coordinating essential services around that customer to ensure that the customer has the opportunity to engage.
- Develop and design individualised service co plans/support plans which involve internal and external services and the customer.
- Stay in touch with multi-agency team/support network, providing regular updates where necessary.
- Refer customers to appropriate services, encourage and support their engagement.
- Advocate for customer access into services and challenge barriers and exclusions that customers may face.
- Organise and chair multi-disciplinary team meetings with necessary services, striving to achieve fair access and positive outcomes for customers and to provide a positive platform for communication.
- Work closely with the Support Team Leader to promote their services, build positive relationships with the local community and help monitor and evaluate the service.
- Work flexibly to meet the needs of the customer and the service.
What they're looking for
- Educated to GCSE level and/or have a good level of Maths and English.
- Experience supporting adults with complex needs, such as substance misuse, homelessness and ill mental health (or transferable skills you can bring to the role)
- Experience working with confidential and complex information, following data protection laws.
- Great communication, problem-solving, organisation and time management skills.
- Basic understanding of Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel and Access.
- You'll have a passion for supporting those experiencing homelessness and other complex needs.
- You will have experience of risk assessing and support planning, including use of the outcome star.
- You will have advocacy skills and confidence to challenge decisions.
- You will have knowledge of necessary laws e.g. adult safeguarding, the Care Act 2014 and the Homeless Reduction Act 2017.
- Full UK driving license with own vehicle for work.
- DBS check.
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Who they are
They're part of a team of social-minded brands championing happy homes in their region by providing services and support that help people across Staffordshire and its surrounding areas feel secure, connected and confident.
Homelessness isn't a choice. It can happen to anyone.
Our client is a local charity, support network and campaigner leading the fight to erase homelessness within Staffordshire and its surrounding areas.
Through a community-led approach, they help those without a plan, without a voice and without a home build concrete futures by tackling the underlying issues that keep people from finding and securing a home of their own.
Join them on their fight to make homelessness history across Staffordshire and everywhere.