Outreach Practitioner

**Job Reference**

JOB00000537

**Location**

Camden and Islington

**Salary**

£29,124 - £32,946 per annum, including London Weighting where appropriate

**Vacancy Type**

Permanent/Full Time

**Working Hours**

37.5 hours per week

**Application Deadline**

Sunday, June 9, 2024

**Job Summary**

**Are you looking for a sense of purpose in your job? Would you like to support people who have experienced homelessness and addiction?**

**The Role**

Being an assertive outreach worker is varied and rewarding work. It also gives invaluable insight into health and social care systems for anyone looking to go into public health and policy work.

The main purpose of the role is to provide excellent quality/support with strong communication skills, you will be providing care to people who use our services who may be mentally unwell, have experienced trauma and who have struggled to engage with mainstream services.

You will be able to work flexible working pattens with partner agencies, to give the best possible care.

We are looking for self-motivated, dynamic, driven individuals and who are committed to providing assertive outreach in the community to engage or re-engage the homeless population into wellbeing services and drug and alcohol treatment. You will be able to work independently, but also part of a supportive team:

- Conduct street outreach to engage/reengage homeless individuals misusing substances.
- Deliver street-based interventions.
- Engage and build relationships with individuals who are rough sleepers/street active.
- Street-based needs assessments/harm reduction advice - including Naloxone distribution.
- Develop robust pathways between existing homeless and outreach service/housing services.
- Support access/re-engagement with local treatment provider.
- Support Opiate users with rapid prescribing access with use of virtual prescribing clinics.
- Manage a case load of people with complex needs including substance misuse. Working with partner agencies to support them to become stable and ready to engage with local treatment providers.
- Work in collaboration with housing teams, local authority, and other treatment agencies to minimise the prevalence of street drinking and anti-social behaviour by supporting people into treatment.
- To deliver drug and alcohol training to partner services.

Direct experience in substance misuse is not mandatory, although you must be able to learn on the job and be willing to undertake training.

**The Service**

Via Rough Sleepers Projects is an integrated community service which offers Intensive Recovery Outreach and Dedicated Support to Rough Sleepers in Camden & Islington. The project provides coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues. The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox.

This is a great opportunity to be involved with the delivery of a dynamic service and finding the most effective and creative ways to engage with service users with multiple and often complex needs. You will work as part of a dedicated multi-disciplinary outreach team to offer person centred support, and engagement into treatment.

**Location**

Camden and Islington.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package

**Interviews are likely to take place on Thursday 13 June.**

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.