Housing First Worker

3 weeks ago

Salford, United Kingdom Great Places Housing Group Full time

**Salary: £27,490**
**Job Type: Full Time**
**Location: Salford**
**Benefits: Competitive pension, 26 days holiday plus bank holidays, increasing with service, cycle to work scheme, season ticket loans for public transport plus much more.**

Reporting to the Housing First Team Leader, the Housing First Worker is responsible for coordinating and providing a personalised, trauma informed support service to people with complex needs facing multiple exclusion in line with Housing First principles. This is a fixed-term contract until March 2025. You will be covering the Salford and Trafford areas.

**What you'll be doing**
- Delivering wrap around intensive, trauma informed support to people with multiple and complex issues within their own independence tenancies in the community
- Maintaining accurate up to date records on the chosen case management system of progress against individual support plans; safety plans and outcomes information
- Liaise with other agencies to facilitate access to support including Adult Social Care; Criminal Justice services; Health services; employment and training services
- Regularly review the person centred support plan to update, record and monitor progress of caseload
- Provide temporary cover for colleagues as required and participate in a rota of duties, to ensure that service delivery is available in the evenings; weekends and bank holidays
- Liaise with landlords to assist the person living in accommodation of their choice, including practical help with furniture, benefits advise and accompanied visits
- Perform robust assessments of referrals for the service to ensure the service is provided to those that meet the eligibility criteria
- Promote, and encourage peer involvement within the service
- Facilitate access to the personalisation fund via creative solutions to integrate people into the community and access accommodation
- To be part of a rota providing out of hours access to telephone support to people using the service
- To work flexibly to ensure that service delivery is available in the morning/evenings, at weekends and on bank holidays when required
- To adhere to good practice Safeguarding procedures with a positive risk taking approach to ensure the wellbeing of vulnerable people

**What you'll need**
- Qualified to minimum GCSE grade C or equivalent in English and Maths

**What we need from you**
- You will be required to attend a number of face to face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning this part of your role is vital and of equal importance as the day to day aspects.
- To have an understanding of the complex interdependencies of mental health and substance abuse and offending behaviour
- A creative approach to problem solving, getting and keeping people engaged
- Promote the rights, responsibilities and informed choice of the people receiving the service, acting as an advocate to promote independence
- Know when to seek assistance or supervision and how to engage meaningfully in planned supervisions
- Empathy; caring; acceptance; mutual affirmation; an encouragement of responsible risk taking; supportive and constructive challenge and positive expectation for the future
- An understanding of the Housing First model and belief in the values and principles
- Experience of data collection, administration and recording procedures with the ability to maintain accurate case notes and organise own case load to support the national evaluation
- Demonstrable coaching skills in promoting independence
- Professional and value led with integrity, inclusivity and respect for diversity
- Ability to quickly build rapport; being persistent, determined and resilient
- Ability and commitment to working with vulnerable customer groups and people with complex needs - at a pace and way in which they choose to work
- Ability to work across Greater Manchester to meet service delivery demands when required

**What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment**
- Pension |DC Scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleague and Great Places)
- WPA |Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available- option to increase & add on family members
- The Market Place |high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
- Annual Leave |Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays
- Savings Club | You can put aside money each month for 11 months to help you save for that special something (pays out in Novembers salary)
- Sharing Greatness | Our colleague incentive scheme where colleagues can earn £300 by helping the business achieve business targets.
- Help with transport | We offer season ticket loans, an affordable way to purchase season tickets for public transport at discounted rates .

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver to great services, all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.

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