Housing Support Worker

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom Kineara Full time

Job description

Kineara has a two new vacancies for experienced Housing Support Practitioners to join our small and dedicated team for our Private Renters Project in Southwark.

**Housing Support Practitioner**

**Contract and term**: Self-employed 12 month contract, with a 3-month probation
**Hours**:35 hours per week Mon - Fri with some occasional evenings when needed
**Location**: Flexible, with time split between home, our Southwark office 3 days per week

**About the project**

In an innovative partnership with Southwark Council, Southwark Law Centre, and Impact for Urban Health, we’ve been supporting close to 200 private renters over the last 3 years who have been threatened with eviction by their landlords, or are living in temporary accommodation, to sustain their tenancies and/or find onward housing in the social or private sector that is suitable for their health, needs and aspirations.

We’ve already delivered crucial crisis support to vulnerable renters and are looking for a passionate housing support worker to be part of the next phase of the project.

**About Kineara**

Kineara is a unique community interest company and charity that supports people in poverty across London who facing barriers to housing, employment and education. We break down barriers, provide holistic support for families, vulnerable adults, and school pupils, and deliver intensive one-to-one interventions to those in need of extra help through challenging times. We use holistic, trauma-informed methods, partnership working and a flexible, non-judgemental approach that puts the needs of those we work with first.

**About the role**

We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and energetic support worker to take up a full-time role within our organisation as a Housing Support Practitioner in our small and dedicated team. The role will be based mostly in Southwark, and you will be working in partnership with the Council’s housing officers, solicitors, community services, social prescribers, and mental health support workers to coordinate tailored support for each client to avoid eviction and sustain tenancies, mediating with landlords where necessary and providing advice for onward housing when needed with the support of the Housing Link Worker. The objectives of these programmes are to avoid evictions, sustain tenancies or move to a better suited property, increase employment opportunities, improve wellbeing, and increase educational outcomes. You will be working in partnership with other stakeholders such as schools and health professionals to improve family health, build relationships and engage families and individuals and their networks of support.

**About you**

You will have experience of working with individuals with complex needs. You will be an enthusiastic person who is self-motivated, confident and thrives when working independently with a passion to support change. You will have excellent interpersonal skills, experience delivering holistic support, be a solution-minded thinker, have a good understanding of strength-based approaches and be able work sensitively and empathetically with people in vulnerable circumstances. You will also have experience working in a systemic and therapeutic way.** **It is also important to us that you have the competency to work with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds. To work as part of a team and independently, the roles require you to think creatively and use the resources around you effectively.

**Job description and main responsibilities**
- To deliver Kineara’s intervention supporting those in the private rented sector whose tenancy is at risk or needing to find alternative accommodation. Provide practical and emotional support to improve security and sustainability of the tenancy and the client's overall wellbeing.
- Use a holisict flexible approach to support families and individuals with regards to their specific individual support needs, while working towards overall project objectives and personal, tailored client outcomes.
- To communicate efficiently with our partnership organisations regarding the delivery of the interventions. Attend regular update/ review meetings with stakeholders.
- Liaise with our in-house Housing Link Worker to help the clients find new accommodation and explore their housing options.
- Work alongside Housing Officers, Southwark Law Centre, Social Workers and other professionals with the aim to build a working support network for the family.
- Communicate with landlords and property agencies about properties and viewings to support the client finding a new home.
- Refer families to other suitable organisations such as counselling, substance misuse treatment, educational/employability courses, Mental Health Services (CAMHS, SLAM)
- Record case work data for monitoring.
- Overall be the voice of the family and the individuals who need your commitment and support.
- Presentations to introduce the service/programmes within d

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