Drug and Alcohol Housing Worker (Floating Support)

Inclusion; Basingstoke; Hybrid; GBP 23,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Inclusion is seeking a Drug and Alcohol Housing Worker to deliver intensive floating support across Hampshire, including Aldershot, Basingstoke, Winchester, Andover and East Hampshire. You will work with people who use drugs or alcohol to access housing, sustain tenancies and engage with treatment and recovery services.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will conduct home visits, carry out risk assessments, and maintain accurate case records, ensuring trauma-informed, harm-reduction

Qualifications

• Experience of working in the housing field.
• Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field or with those who use drugs and alcohol.
• Ability to work autonomously and maintain accurate, timely case records.
• Experience working in multi-agency environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver intensive floating support to individuals at risk of homelessness, including tenancy sustainment, arrears management, practical housing support and landlord liaison.
• Provide structured psychosocial interventions, including CBT-based approaches, motivational interviewing, harm reduction and solution-focused techniques.
• Support people to access treatment, healthcare, benefits, community services and wider social support that contributes to recovery and tenancy stability.
• Build strong relationships with housing authorities, supported accommodation providers, private landlords and homelessness services.
• Attend multi-agency meetings and represent Inclusion professionally with partners such as probation, police, healthcare and social care.
• Maintain accurate and timely electronic records, reports and performance data in line with audit requirements.

Skills

Autonomous working

Trauma-informed approach

Harm reduction

Multi-agency collaboration

Communication skills

Driving licence

Tools

Vehicle for business use

Job description

Drug and Alcohol Housing Worker (Floating Support)

Are you passionate about preventing homelessness and improving housing stability for people affected by drug and alcohol use? Following new investment, we are developing a new Drug and Alcohol Housing Support Service and are recruiting Drug and Alcohol Housing Workers to provide flexible, floating support to people across Hampshire.We are seeking applications from individuals who are able to work in Aldershot, Basingstoke, Winchester, Andover or East Hampshire.

In this role, you will provide intensive housing related support to individuals who use drugs and/or alcohol and are at risk of homelessness or struggling to maintain accommodation. You will work across Hampshire to help people access suitable housing, strengthen tenancy sustainment, develop independent living skills and engage effectively with treatment and recovery services.

Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will build strong relationships with local authority housing departments, supported accommodation providers and health and social care professionals. Your work will be trauma informed, recovery focused and grounded in harm reduction principles.

This is a varied role involving home visits, outreach, multi agency work and one to one interventions. You will make a meaningful difference by helping people secure safe, sustainable accommodation and supporting their journey toward recovery and improved wellbeing.

Main duties of the job

As a Drug and Alcohol Housing Worker, you will:

Hold a small caseload and provide personalised, intensive housing related support to people who use drugs and/or alcohol.

• Help individuals access appropriate accommodation, sustain tenancies, manage rent/arrears, set up utilities and maintain positive relationships with landlords and neighbours.
• Provide support that promotes engagement with treatment, including harm reduction advice, psychosocial interventions and attending appointments with individuals where required.
• Develop independent living skills such as budgeting, household management, benefits, healthy routines and community involvement.
• Advocate on behalf of service users with statutory and non statutory housing services to secure suitable and sustainable accommodation outcomes.

• Work collaboratively with local authorities, supported accommodation providers, criminal justice agencies, healthcare teams and Inclusion colleagues.
• Contribute to multi agency meetings, risk assessments, safeguarding discussions and coordinated support planning.
• Maintain accurate case notes, reports and data using ILLY Carepath and other systems.
• Ensure practice is trauma informed, recovery focused, culturally sensitive and aligned with Inclusion's values.
• Work flexibly across community locations, including delivering outreach and supporting individuals in their homes.

About us

Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Inclusion service offers psychological and drug & alcohol services, in the community, and in prisons, and has contracts across the country.

As an organisation we serve a population of 1.5 million and currently employ around 9000 members of staff.

We have a wide range of exciting opportunities for people looking to work in a truly integrated NHS organisation. By joining MPFT you will become part of a team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:

• Putting people at the heart of what we do
• Empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
• Delivering better health, better care in partnership

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job responsibilities

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. If it is identified that you require sponsorship to undertake this role your application may be withdrawn

For full responsibilities please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification. In summary:

Deliver intensive floating support to individuals at risk of homelessness, including tenancy sustainment, arrears management, practical housing support and landlord liaison. Provide structured psychosocial interventions, including CBTbased approaches, motivational interviewing, harmreduction and solutionfocused techniques. Support people to access treatment, healthcare, benefits, community services and wider social support that contributes to recovery and tenancy stability. Build strong relationships with housing authorities, supported accommodation providers, private landlords and homelessness services. Attend multiagency meetings and represent Inclusion professionally with partners such as probation, police, healthcare and social care. Maintain accurate and timely electronic records, reports and performance data in line with audit requirements. Work within safeguarding procedures, loneworking protocols, infectioncontrol standards and health and safety guidance.

Be flexible to travel across Hampshire to complete home visits, outreach and communitybased work, including occasional evenings or weekends where needed.

Please read the Person Specification below carefully before applying.The essential and desirable criteria will be used for shortlisting, so ensure your supporting information clearly demonstrates how you meet these requirements

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in the housing field
• Experience of working in the drug and alcohol field or with those who use drugs and alcohol
• Ability to work autonomously and maintain accurate, timely case records.
• Experience working in multi-agency environments

Skills

• A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business use (travelling between sites in the course of the role)
• Ability to deliver person-centred, trauma-informed and harm-reduction-based support
• Reliable, resilient and able to maintain professional boundaries.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.