Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker

**Single Homeless Project** has** **an opportunity for a **Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker **to join and work in our Lewisham Vulnerable Adults Accommodation Service based in **London.** You will join us on a** full time, permanent basis** **and in return, you will receive a **competitive salary starting at £30,342.85 and rising incrementally to £33,228.99 per annum.**

**Single Homeless Project** is a London-wide charity. Our vision is of a society where everyone has a place to call home and the chance to live a fulfilling life.

We help single Londoners by preventing homelessness, providing support and accommodation, promoting wellbeing, enhancing opportunity, and being a voice for change. From supporting people in crisis to helping people take the final steps towards independence and employment, we make a difference to 10,000 lives every year across all 32 boroughs.

**About the Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker role**:
As a Specialist Multiple Disadvantage worker, you will have experience of intensively and skilfully managing a small caseload of clients.

In the role of Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker, you will be expected to work in conjunction with the Team Manager to manage all referrals and assessments in a timely manner to ensure all assessments are conducted in a skilled and sensitive way to encourage potential clients to openly discuss their strengths as well as their deficits.

As a Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker, you will be responsible for the delivery, and evaluation, of a range of Life Skills, and Recovery workshops and activities to support our clients' skills acquisition. To give support and guidance to project workers in relation to best practice standards for supporting homeless people with multiple disadvantages and complex needs.

The Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker will have skills in effectively liaising and building good relationships, with external and internal stakeholders to keep a satisfactory level of appropriate referrals.

**Skills and experience we're looking for in our Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker**:

- An understanding of best practices in supporting people with complex needs and an ability to support and guidance colleagues.
- The ability to effectively and intensively case management a small case load of client with complex needs. Also, can create SMART support plans and effectively assess risk.
- Experience and commitment to working flexibly and creatively to response to changes in sectorial best practice, external environment, organisational requirements, etc.
- Experience of working with or supporting vulnerable people with support needs around any of the following issues; rough sleeping, mental ill-health, physical health, neuro diversity, problematic substance misuse, ex
- offending.
- To have a non
- judgmental approach to working with clients who have multiple disadvantages, to promote a strength -based approach and an understanding of and commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
- To have formidable team working skills and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work collaboratively with external and partners, and stakeholders.
- A willingness to work outside standard office hours as and when requires.

**Our attractive benefits package includes**:

- A salary increase after successfully completing six month's probationary period
- A 37.5 hour working week including flexible working hours (core hours are 10am - 4pm) in non-accommodation services
- 25 days annual leave, increasing annually to the maximum 30 days (plus paid Bank Holidays),
- A contributory pension scheme: Single Homeless Project will contribute the equivalent of 5% of your annual salary
- Staff Health Cash Plan and discounts scheme
- Comprehensive and integrated training programme designed specifically to develop the skills and knowledge involved in our work

**Closing Date**:Sunday 12th May at Midnight

**Interview Date**:Wednesday 21st or Thursday 22nd May

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team - please click **‘apply’ **now to become our **Specialist Multiple Disadvantage Worker **-** **we'd like to hear from you
- Single Homeless Project is actively committed to equal opportunities and the promotion of diversity and inclusion, in all of our services and workplaces. We are also Disability Confident Committed and are IIP Silver accredited._