Housing and Support Officer

Your new company
You will work with people facing multiple and complex barriers including homelessness, mental health, substance misuse, offending behaviour and unemployment. You will work alongside the partners to ensure a multi-agency approach to support people into accommodation and support them to address the causes and consequences of their homelessness. The key focus is intensive person-centred coaching building on each person's unique strengths and aspirations, so they can transition out of their situation with dignity. You will collate appropriate monitoring data to measure and report on the success of the service.
Your new role
Some of your main roles and responsibilities will include but are not limited to :

• Provide an intensive housing management, general support and resettlement service.
• Process referrals and undertake assessments to identify persons' suitability for services.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of statutory and voluntary sector service providers
• Efficiently manage a caseload to ensure effective use of time and resources.
• Complete risk assessments and adhere to the safeguarding policy
• Ensure the right mix of residents in any of the Company's shared housing to balance behaviours.
• Work one-to-one with individuals facing multiple and complex challenges who are going through the toughest of life transitions, through face-to-face meetings, phone calls and text messages, using non-collusive and non-coercive supportive conversations that create a sense that change could be beneficial and possible
• Work towards the individual's Housing/Support Plan through a client centred support plan to address needs around accommodation and sustaining accommodation. Ensure these are regularly reviewed and outcome/solution focused.

What you'll get in return
This opportunity is a temporary to permanent post. The hourly rate is £11.54 per hour and the working hours are 8:30am-17:00pm, Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week. You will be based in Derbyshire and therefore must be able to drive to be considered for this opportunity.
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