Health and Wellbeing Outreach Worker

4 weeks ago

SouthendonSea, United Kingdom The Forward Trust Full time

Overview:
We are The Forward Trust (formerly RAPt and Blue Sky), the social enterprise with charitable status that empowers people to break the often interlinked cycles of crime and addiction to move forward with their lives. For more than 25 years we have been working with people to build positive and productive lives, whatever their past. We believe that anyone is capable of lasting change. Our services have supported thousands of people to make positive changes and build productive lives with a job, family, friends and a sense of community.

What you will be doing?:

- To engage with a range of individuals who have adopted ‘ street-based living’ including rough sleepers and beggars with a view to engaging them in appropriate services and moving them into more settled lifestyles.
- To use a range of interventions to support service users with low level mental health and overall health and wellbeing issues. Day to day you will be responsible for managing a caseload, providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, assessments, and care plans; you will deliver structured 1:1 and groupwork sessions on both Substance Misuse and Low Level Mental Health topics.
- Increase service user choice, service user involvement and empower service users to maintain sustainable change; working collaboratively and proactively to ensure that services are fully co-ordinated and are working collectively towards the achievement of goals and positives outcomes for each individual client.
- To build and develop service users’ personal strengths and social networks in the UK and/or in the individual’s country of origin. To provide a range of flexible and effective interventions to engage with hard to reach service users.

What we are looking for?:
Understanding of the needs of people who are rough sleeping

and/or begging

In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following: substance

misuse, alcohol misuse, mental health.

Understanding the importance of multi-agency working

Experience of and a commitment to, working positively in

partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies.

Knowledge of safeguarding procedures applicable to children

and vulnerable adults.

Knowledge of Supported Housing

The ability to work with confidence and patience with clients

unwilling to engage with services and those that exhibit

challenging behaviour.

The ability to work unsociable hours as and when required.

What we offer:

- Training opportunities and career development
- Flexible working
- Season Ticket Loan Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- 25 days (rising to 30 with length of service) Annual Leave plus Bank Holidays
- Contributory Pension Scheme - Employer matched contributions of up to 6% in the first two years’ service and up to 9% thereafter
- Death in Service Payment (2x annual salary)

Person specification:
JD Health and Wellbeing Outreach Worker

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