Part Time Support Worker: Women Experiencing Homelessness

Part Time Support Worker: Women Experiencing Homelessness

A leading homelessness charity in London have approached Morgan Hunt to recruit a Support Worker on a Part Time basis, 3 days a week, for their service supporting Women Experiencing Homelessness in south west London. You will be supporting clients that are homeless with a range of complex support needs to progress to independent living.

Candidate requirements:

• Previous experience working within a supported housing setting ideally with former rough sleepers
• Keyworking experience of clients with a variety of support needs including homelessness, drug and or alcohol abuse, mental health and offending histories
• Ability to offer advice on tenancy sustainment and income maximisation via the housing and welfare benefits system
• An enhanced DBS check issued within the last 12 months or registered to the online update service

Responsibilities Include:

• Keyworking a caseload of clients with complex support needs including substance misuse, mental health, learning and or physical disabilities and offending histories
• Providing tenancy sustainment advice and advice around housing and welfare benefits
• Updating and creating needs and risk assessments
• Creating person centrered wellbeing plans
• Liaising with a range of specialist agencies on behalf of clients around a range of support issues

If you are interested in this position, please contact us immediately.

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