Outreach worker

Job Description

Outreach worker – Rough sleepers – Coventry City

Onsite

£14.82 ph

Job Purpose:

• To provide support through outreach and street intervention working with support services and agencies to improve pathways for individuals who are street homeless to access suitable accommodation and services.
• To work as part of a team providing additional outreach capacity in order to work collaboratively with new or entrenched rough sleepers in Coventry. The outreach workers will be responsible for co-developing and monitoring support plans for rough sleepers on their caseload.  
• To work with a defined agreed case load of up to 10 individuals at one time (up to 20 individuals over a year) providing intensive support that focusses on recovery

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• As part of a team to provide outreach support and intervention to rough sleepers in a positive, persistent, proactive and assertive way to secure meaningful engagement to bring about sustained and improved behavioural change/outcomes for them
• Contribute to holistic assessments of the needs of rough sleepers and contribute to the development of support plans accordingly
• Work in partnership with existing agencies including police, housing providers, benefits agency, drug and alcohol services/workers, sex worker services as well as mental health and wellbeing services
• Make referrals to external agencies to meet the needs of those service users who need/ require additional input from other services

To find out more information please contact Abbie at abbiek@4recruitmentservices.com

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. We are an equal opportunity agency.