Link Worker Homeless Service

You Matter; Liverpool; On-site; AUD 46,000 - 57,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & development

Equal opportunities employer

Supportive team environment

Job summary

You Matter is seeking a part-time Link Worker to support individuals with complex needs. Based in Lister, you will build therapeutic relationships, run activity-based interventions, and help residents resettle into their communities while supporting housing benefit processes.

The role emphasizes proactive engagement, organisation, and psychological-informed care within a supportive team. 25 hours per week, fixed-term until 1 November 2027, with multiple team-based activities and community

Qualifications

• Ability to build meaningful relationships with service users.
• Proactive and compassionate approach with complex needs.
• Collaborative work style with staff and external agencies.
• Creative problem solving, organized and able to stay calm under pressure.
• Willingness to work in a psychologically informed environment.

Responsibilities

• Build supportive and therapeutic relationships with service users through dialogue.
• Deliver activity-based interventions to promote wellbeing and independence.
• Assist in preparing service users to resettle into their community of choice.
• Ensure housing benefit applications are completed in a timely manner.
• Work with the support-worker team to meet daily needs of residents.
• Maintain accurate records and contribute to risk assessments and handovers.
• Engage service users in community activities and co-produce service plans.

Skills

Relationship building

Compassion

Collaboration

Creativity

Organisation

Calm under pressure

Job description

Salary: £26,996.84 (pro rata to 25 hours)

Hours: 25 hours per week (Mon – Fri 3pm – 8pm)

Job Type: Fixed Term until November 1st 2027

Shortlisting: 16th November

Interview: 20th November

Why this role would be great for you

If you’re someone who thrives on building meaningful relationships, enjoys helping others overcome challenges, and has a passion for empowering people to live independently, this role could be perfect for you.

You’ll be a great fit if you’re proactive, compassionate, and confident working with individuals who have complex needs. If you’re a natural collaborator who can think creatively, stay organised, and remain calm under pressure, you’ll find this work both rewarding and impactful.

Based in Lister your role will be to:

• To ensure that Intensive Housing Management tasks are completed in a timely way and to a high standard
• To build supportive and therapeutic relationships with Service Users through dialogue
• To deliver activity-based interventions
• To support in preparing Service Users to resettle into their community of choice
• To ensure that Housing Benefit applications are completed in a timely manner.
• To work alongside the support-worker team in ensuring that all daily tasks are completed and that residents’ needs are met

What your week may look like

Your week as a Link Worker might include:

• Supporting new residents as they move in, helping them settle and complete housing benefit applications.
• Building trust through one-to-one conversations and group activities that promote wellbeing, independence, and engagement.
• Collaborating with support workers and external agencies to create personalised support plans and risk assessments.
• Encouraging service users to take part in community activities and helping them re-engage if they’ve become withdrawn.
• Keeping accurate records of interactions, updating risk assessments, and contributing to team handovers.
• Responding to incidents, conducting welfare checks, and ensuring the environment is safe and welcoming for all.
• Attending team meetings and contributing to service development through feedback and co-production with residents.
• Intensive Housing Management and Risk Assessing
• Assist the Practitioners with the induction and management of their case load taking direction as required
• Update and communicate service user risk assessments in line with You Matter policy and procedure
• Assist in the planning of workshops to individuals and groups that inform/ teach service users around how to manage a tenancy, manage a home and live independently.
• Creatively engage service users that have a wide range of complex and challenging support needs
• Encourage service users to take part in activities
• Offer a creative but assertive approach in order to seek to re engagement
• Assist Practitioners in the management of personalized behaviour / support agreements
• Provide clear, comprehensive and accurate information on handovers to the team making recommendations where appropriate
• Assisting service users in the cleaning of their room
• Complete void checks and get rooms ready for letting
• Maintain accurate up to date electronic and written records
• Post holders must be willing to support clients whose behaviours we may find challenging using our CAT /psychologically informed approach
• Service User Involvement and Engagement
• Encourage involvement, participation and co-production from service users in the running and development of the service
• Provide a safe, welcoming environment with excellent standards and an ethos of service delivery that encourages service users to engage
• Health and Safety
• Liaise with all emergency services
• Ensure at all times the safety of yourself and others on the premises in which you work

What We Can Offer You

Working with You Matter comes will a whole host of benefits. We hope that people will find personal fulfilment and purpose by working with alongside people in our services. Our teams are compassionate and supportive, fostering a strong sense of community. With opportunities for professional growth, You Matter offers training to support your role and personal development. For a full list of benefits see here: Careers Page | You Matter.

You Matter is an equal opportunities employer, values diversity and is strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. We welcome and encourage applications from everyone, regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.

The skills we are looking for:COMMUNICATIONExcellent communication, fostering a respectful, collaborative and professional approach to the people who you work alongside ensuring confidentiality at all timesEMPATHY and RESPECTThe ability to empower people to make positive changes, showing empathy whilst maintaining professional boundariesCOMMITMENTThe ability to work in an innovative and solutions focused way, including reflecting and learning as you go, and a willingness to flex and adapt approaches as needed. Ability to work within and have commitment to You Matter ethos, philosophy and SHREK values, Strength, Humility, Respect, Empathy and Kindness.ORGANISATIONStrong time management and the ability to manage to prioritise tasksCOMPUTER LITERACYYou will be IT literate and have experience of working with multiple software programs such as Microsoft Office and Outlook.What is a nice to haveQualification or working experience in homelessness, mental health or offendingExperience of working within a psychologically informed working environmentKnowledge of housing management and IT databasesAwareness of benefits and how they work including Universal Credit and other welfare systemsEven if you don’t feel that you have all the relevant skills and “nice to haves” we would still like to hear from you and invite you to fill out our application form.