Lead Worker

Description:

Single Homeless Project has an opportunity for a Lead Worker to join us in Westminster. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £28,247.60 rising incrementally to £30,342.85 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 Lead Worker role:

As our RSAP (Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme) Lead Worker, you will provide support to individuals, who have a history of Rough Sleeping, following them being accepted into the RSAP ‘move-on’ programme

Provide intensive, holistic, strengths-based, trauma-informed, flexible and responsive support to individuals accessing this service as well as work alongside external agencies to help ensure they are linked into the local community such as activities and groups which offer health, wellbeing and Education, Employment and Training (ETE) opportunities.

Provide support to the Team Manager to manage referrals coming into this element of the service and lead on assessing the individual. Working within SHP’s policy and procedural framework, the worker will carry out a comprehensive assessment of needs and risks in agreed timescales.? On-going high quality support plans & risk assessments will then be drafted and reviewed on a regular basis.?

You will be working to upskill the client to manage their accommodation and feel ready to move on from the RSAP property into fully independent housing, within 2 years where possible.

Skills and experience we're looking for in our Lead Worker:

A level of experience and understanding of provision of services to people within the areas of offending, mental health, homeless people with complex needs & a history of substance use;

A good and current understanding of safeguarding issues and procedures;

Experience of effective liaison with social care, health, housing and criminal justice agencies;

Experience of writing client records, completing monitoring materials and contributing to project evaluation;

A significant level of experience, practise and understanding of the principles of risk and needs assessment, planning, goal setting, and reviewing;

An understanding of the importance of professional integrity in relationships with clients, peers and other relevant professionals.

The ability to find ways to develop relationships with people who find it difficult to engage, and to engage and work with clients who may have a low level of interaction with services and who may be sceptical about their value;

Engaging with a wide range of professionals, some of whom may have very different approaches to problem solving through a multi-agency approach, and advocating to agencies on behalf of the service and its clients;

Providing information and advice to clients about the options available to them, with the aim of empowering clients to make informed decisions;

To be self-servicing in the use of the computer to create letters, minutes and key work notes and to send and receive emails;

Familiarity with relevant housing, health and social justice legislation, policy and best practice relevant to systems change and people with multiple needs;

A resilience and determination to overcome obstacles and find creative solutions.

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: Midnight 9th July 2024

Interview date: 18th July 2024

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to join the Single Homeless Project team – please click ‘apply’ now to become our Lead Worker - we'd like to hear from you!

This post will require an Enhanced DBS check to be processed for the successful applicant.

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