Homeless Hospital Advocate

**Full time (37 hours per week)**

**Temporary until April 2025**

Stockport Homes Group is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on building strong collaborative relationships locally, regionally and nationally. We are passionate about not only providing housing and building new homes in Stockport, but helping to transform the lives of our customers. We aim to provide comfortable and affordable homes and engage customers and communities.

We’re looking for a Homeless Hospital Advocate to join our Temporary Accommodation team to help ensure that no one leaves hospital homeless or without a suitable place to live

This is a varied and challenging role, working closely with health, substance misuse services, social care and housing providers, to offer practical support and advice to patients with accommodation issues, with the aim of achieving smooth discharge arrangements

In this rewarding role you will build strong working relationships with key partner agencies to promote the service across all relevant hospital teams. You will have the opportunity to work alongside and support a diverse range of customers, assisting them into accommodation and supporting them around health and housing related needs

This role is on Skylight terms and conditions.

**Closing date: 21st April 2024**

**Interview date: 1st May 2024**

SKylight is a Community benefit society established in 2018 and was set up as the charitable arm of Stockport Homes Group. As a Community benefit society, SKylight was set up for the benefit of the community with a social objective.

SKylight works closely with the people of Stockport to help transform lives in local communities including furniture recycling, providing accommodation and intensive support to people who are homeless, affordable holiday clubs for local children, and a network of community stores called Pantries to help people make their money go further.

SKylight are proud to be part of Stockport Homes Group and their contribution to making Stockport a great place to live and work.