Rough Sleepers Co-ordinator

Job Title: Rough Sleepers Co-ordinator
Location: Waltham Forest
Salary / Pay Rate: £200 per day umbrella
Job Type: Contract (2 months+)

The Role:

As the Rough Sleeping Coordinator you can make a powerful contribution to our Housing Options and Support Service. You will work alongside friendly, highly skilled and collaborative colleagues who share your commitment to improving services for vulnerable people who are homeless. Together, the Rough Sleeping Team ensures support and accommodation pathways are person-centred, accessible and high quality. You'll discover an environment in which people are ambitious and inspired to meet challenges by embracing new ways of working.

A personalisation approach to support for people who are rough sleeping experienced or are homeless is at the heart of our mission - you'll work with service providers and commissioners to develop this approach. You'll also collaborate with them to find solutions for delivering enhanced services and support a wide take-up of our accommodation offer. Crucially, you'll support our Housing Options Operations Managers to ensure our delivery models meet the diverse physical and mental health needs of people who are sleeping rough in the borough.

The Candidate:

You'll demonstrate a personal passion for being part of the Housing Options and Support service and have the drive to help make change happen. You will have demonstrable experience of supporting vulnerable people in a busy environment. A team player, you have great communication and relationship building skills, whether face-to-face, on the phone or in writing. You'll bring to the role excellent organisational skills, a flair for identifying and resolving problems and experience of delivering results within challenging timeframes. Experience of working with computerised record keeping is also vital. A self-developer, you're keen to learn and grow along with our services. And you share our total commitment to equality and diversity.

How to apply:

Please submit your application via the contact details provided and you will be contacted with further information about this opportunity or call me on; .