Rapid Rehousing Support Worker

**Closing date for this post is 4 April 2025 / Interview Date: 15 April 2025**

**Role Purpose**

Rapid Rehousing’s role is to ensure that young people 25 and under who sleep rough in Sheffield can access local support systems. The role will coordinate with support services, and work with stakeholders to provide support, encouragement and advocacy to enable young people to navigate Roundabouts Rapid Rehousing service, engage in support and move away from living on the streets.

Working closely with homeless services in Sheffield and providing outreach support, actively managing a ‘caseload’ of young people who are ready to move away from living on the streets From the first point of contact with service-to-one one to one with young people who are sleeping rough, giving a continued single point of contact and support through Roundabouts Rapid rehousing service and support them in their recovery to find employment, undertake training, cultivate positive social circles and develop the necessary skills to maintain accommodation and independence avoiding a return to the streets.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Using psychologically informed techniques, offer personalised, creative, innovative and effective ways to support to build trust with young people.
- Help to build young people’s confidence, resilience, personal worth, motivation, and emotional well-being.
- Work in an inclusive way, empowering young people to achieve
- Ensure all paperwork is completed and all systems are updated with accurate information and in line with general data protection regulations (GDPR).
- To use risk assessments to understand and manage risk, ensuring the quality of support plans, emphasise the assessment of needs and achieve positive outcomes.

To support the move-in process for young people into Roundabout properties and facilitate the transaction from homelessness to being housed, this includes handing over to allocated key worker and ensuring the initial risk assessment is completed.

To have an understanding of the key principles working under the Housing First model, how this differs from conventional key working, what skills do you have to work in this way.

**Other duties**

This will include some cleaning of properties, collecting stock for the accommodation and supporting the setting up of homes for young people. Supporting the team when needed.

**Person Specification**
- Ability to manage concurrent projects and work under pressure
- Excellent attention to detail and a highly organised approach to work
- Experience supporting a chaotic client group who may have experienced homelessness
- Positive working relationships across statutory and non-statutory services citywide
- Working knowledge of issues faced by people who have a history of rough sleeping.
- Experience of needs assessments, support plans and working in a strength-based way to support individuals to set goals and reach their aspirations

**Personal Attributes**
- Ability to be emotionally resilient, adapting in the face of challenging circumstances
- Ability to work flexible hours, online or in person, where applicable
- Ability to clearly communicate with a range of audiences
- Demonstrating a positive approach and understanding of a range of lifestyle choices
- The ability and skills to support the building of young people’s confidence, resilience, personal worth, motivation, and emotional well-being through strength-based support.
- Be able to work in an inclusive way, empowering young people to achieve

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £32,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sick pay

Work days:

- Monday to Friday

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RRSW-03.25