Support Worker - Homelessness And Prevention Team

Are you a target driven individual who has a passion for supporting people? Do you want to be a part of a charity who are striving to prevent homelessness?

About the Service/Department

Hestia's homelessness Prevention Service provides support to single adults who are homeless or at risk of being made homeless within 56 days. This is a payment-by-results scheme where we aim to achieve specific outcomes and prevent homelessness through mediation and sourcing new accommodation.

In this role you will manage a caseload of service users over an 8 month period, this is to ensure they settle in to new accommodation and can go on to sustain their tenancies independently. This a hybrid position where you will work up to 3 days per week in our Central Office in Aldgate.

About the Role

• Liaise and negotiate with local lettings agents, private landlords, family/friends and other agencies, both statutory and non-statutory to find the best solutions to clients housing needs
• Meet weekly outcome targets
• Manage a caseload of service users, assisting them to retain their existing accommodation or secure alternative housing when all other housing options or solutions are exhausted
• Undertake assessments and ongoing reviews of Service Users' needs, options and opportunities by creating focused and co-produced Personal Housing Plans and agreeing actions to improve their housing options
• Develop and maintain effective working partnerships and arrangements with all statutory, voluntary and commercial organisations

About You

• Experience or relevant qualifications of working with housing and homelessness
• Have knowledge and an understanding of housing and homelessness legislation
• You have previously worked in a target led environment
• You thrive in negotiating and accomplishing daily outcomes
• Be solution focused, proactive and results driven

Please noteif offered a role with Hestia, you will be issued a conditional offer based on satisfactory references and a Basic or Enhanced DBS check.

Disability confident
Hestia is a disability confident employer, committed to the employment and career development of individual with disabilities. As part of this commitment, we operate a guaranteed interview scheme for all applicants with disabilities who meet the minimum criteria for the role they have applied for. We will also accommodate reasonable adjustment during the selection and interview process and throughout your employment with us.

Hestia positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity. But we particularly welcome individuals from an ethnic minority background and those with disabilities to apply. As an organisation, we are committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the skills, abilities, talent and experiences, different people and communities bring to our organisation