Night Support Worker

Night Support Worker
Homelessness Service
East London, E2
3 Months Temp-to-Perm
40 Hours
£27,360
One of London's most prominent housing associations is recruiting for a Homeless Support Worker for their Homelessness focussed Services in East London on a temp to perm basis
The Service
This Homeless Support Worker role is based within a homelessness hostel service for service users under the age of 65, with active alcohol and substance misuse support needs. Support Workers provide support on a 24/7 basis with key work sessions fortnightly.
The Role
The focus of this Homeless Support Worker role is to engage and stabilise chaotic homeless individuals with substance misuse issues and link them to appropriate services in order to manage and reduce their substance intake and improve health and wellbeing .The ultimate aim is to prepare individuals for move on to lower support accommodation or more independent living.
This will include the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Create a Safe and Welcoming Environment: Collaborate with the staff team to establish a psychologically informed environment that is safe and welcoming.
• Referral Management and Service Engagement: Interview and assess new referrals, ensuring the project can meet their needs; engage with service users, fostering supportive relationships, particularly those with dual diagnoses or complex needs.
• Assessment and Support Planning: Conduct needs assessments, identify skills and abilities, and develop holistic user-led support plans; regularly review progress using the outcomes star framework.
• High-Quality Support Delivery: Provide high-quality support to a caseload of key clients, offering practical assistance with life skills, activities, and appointments; initiate and support group activities.
• Collaboration, Reporting, and Safety Compliance: Liaise with internal and external partners; anticipate, respond, report incidents, and share relevant information while adhering to data protection and confidentiality policies; actively contribute to team activities and ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies, including monitoring vulnerable residents and assisting with medication management.

The Candidate
To be considered for this Homeless Support Worker role, you will require previous homelessness and supported housing experience including:

• Understanding and willingness to work with homeless people with drug or alcohol issues and behaviour that can be challenging
• Able to respond to challenging behaviour calmly and safely.
• Basic understanding of health and safety including lone working
• Understanding of adult abuse and how to report it.
• Be able to deal with emergency situations (overdoses, etc)
• Be able to support with personal care if required
• A good listener, able to understand and communicate clearly in English
• Ability to assess needs, risks (within a framework of positive risk taking) and develop user led support plans.
• Awareness of and ability to identify and address health and care issues with partners, especially substance misuse, mental health, dementia etc.
• Knowledge of and commitment to service user involvement, self-empowerment, equalities, diversity and service improvement
• Basic understanding of the principals of delivering support within a Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) and commitment to working within this model
• Robust knowledge and practical application of adult safeguarding requirements.

As the role is working with vulnerable individuals, you will also require an Enhanced DBS check.
The Contract
This is a full time Homeless Support Worker role, working shifts on a on a seven day rota, working every other weekend.
Shifts are either early (08:00-16:30) or late (14:00-22:30).
This is a temp to perm role, initially for 12 weeks, offering a salary of £27,360.
How to Apply
To apply for this Homeless Support Worker role, please email a copy of your CV to lee . mcmillan @ servicecare . org. uk or call on to discuss the role in more detail!
If the role is more suited to someone you know, we offer a £250 referral bonus for every successfully referred candidate!