Complex Needs Housing Support Worker

Building Recruitment Co Ltd; Coventry; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Building Recruitment Co Ltd is recruiting for a Complex Needs Housing Support Worker in Coventry. You will join a small team supporting individuals with complex needs including substance misuse and mental health conditions, delivering person-centred, trauma-informed support.

We offer permanent and temporary contracts, a full-time 40-hour week, and a salary of £30,500 per annum. DBS may be required, and a driving license is essential for travel between sites.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting vulnerable individuals with complex needs.
• Experience within a trauma-informed/psychologically informed framework.
• A valid UK driving license (company car provided).

Responsibilities

• Build trust with residents using strength-based, trauma-informed approaches to create outcome-focused support plans.
• Identify risks and design mitigation strategies to promote independence.
• Engage residents to overcome barriers and co-create plans for success.
• Uphold safeguarding and apply local policies and procedures.
• Collaborate with service managers and leaders to maximise outcomes.
• Manage a caseload to provide appropriate support.
• Support rent management and money advice to prevent arrears.
• Complete regular accommodation inspections and ensure H&S compliance.
• Assist residents to gain independent living skills and tenancy knowledge.

Skills

Driving license (UK)

Experience with complex needs

Trauma-informed framework

Job description

• Role Type: Permanent and Temporary
• Salary: £30,500 per annum
• Hours: Full-Time

Complex Needs Housing Support Worker

Role Type: Permanent and Temporary Contracts Available

Salary: £30,500 per annum - £16.43 per hour PAYE (including holiday pay)

Hours: Full-Time 40hrs per week (8am – 8pm, approx. 1in4 weekends)

Location: Coventry

ROLE OVERVIEW:

• We are currently recruiting for Specialist Housing Support Workers to join a small team working for a large national organisation who partner with local authorities to tackle homelessness throughout the UK. You will be providing support to a caseload of individuals with a variety of complex needs including substance misuse & a range of mental health conditions.
• Immediate starts are available for candidates with a DBS certificate already in place but we are also still keen to hear from candidates who require a new DBS or have a notice period.
• Team leader positions are also available for candidates with experience of leading a small team within a supported housing environment.

SUPPORT RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

• Employ a strength-based and trauma-informed approach to building trusting relationships with residents, using that to help create accurate, realistic and meaningful (outcome focused) support plans.
• Use your knowledge and experience of working with those experiencing multiple disadvantages to identify and capture risks, using that to help design mitigation strategies and inform coping mechanisms.
• Engage pro-actively and effectively with residents to help them identify barriers which are preventing them gaining greater levels of independence, then working collaboratively to build (and achieve) a plan for success.
• Uphold the highest levels of safeguarding awareness and protection for individuals, residents, colleagues and the wider community. Working within local frameworks to ensure policies and mechanisms are applied correctly.
• Work with the service manager and senior leaders to engage pro-actively with local multi-disciplinary and network groups, seeking to maximise outcomes for individuals and build added value into the service as a whole.
• Manage your caseload of residents in an effective and dynamic way, ensuring all residents receive and engage with appropriate amounts and types of support for their needs.
• Work in a non-risk averse and non-judgemental way, helping residents understand the negative impact of their behaviours, then providing harm reduction information and advice where necessary.
• Act as a positive role model for residents, using a strength-based approach to helping them set realistic (but aspirational) goals, prompting, encouraging and motivating them to make them a reality.

INTENSIVE HOUSING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES & DUTIES:

• Work with colleagues at service and organisational level to ensure maximum levels of service utilisation, including the processing and review of referrals in a non-risk averse and balanced community way.
• Support in the process of referral management and support / needs / risk assessment, recording all relevant findings accurately in our digital support management system.
• Support residents to understand and complete all necessary tenancy documentation and service entry requirements, recording them as required in our various housing management systems.
• Take ownership of any rent management matters for your residents, helping them to understand the importance of appropriate money management and to take necessary action to avoid arears.
• Support residents to understand their benefits and money management skills, using that to identify knowledge gaps which can be added into support plans and future engagement activities.
• Complete regular accommodation inspections, using the opportunity to help residents develop further independent living skills (e.g. reporting of repairs) whilst ensuring all necessary compliance and H&S requirements are met.
• Proactively support residents to identify knowledge gaps in terms of their ability to manage a tenancy and live independently, building that into support plans and helping them acquire the skills and knowledge required.

REQUIREMENTS:

• A valid UK driving license (a company car will be provided)
• Experience supporting vulnerable individuals with complex needs.
• Experience of working within a trauma informed / psychologically informed framework.
• A basic understanding of housing benefits.

TEAM LEADER REQUIREMENTS:

• As above but with the addition of having experience managing / leading a small team within a supported housing environment.