Housing Advice Worker - Domestic Abuse Support & Move-On

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Gravesend; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave up to 30 days with length

Pension contribution up to 8%

Life assurance up to 3x pensionable

Job summary

Look Ahead Care, Support and Housing Ltd invites applications for a Housing Advice Worker in Kent. The role focuses on building supportive relationships with customers in refuge and helping move them to permanent accommodation.

You will support Sanctuary Scheme clients to stay in properties and pursue personalised move-on plans. The post covers assessing risks, promoting positive risk-taking and ensuring move-on welfare paperwork is completed on time.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 2 or equivalent experience in the social care/charity sector.
• Full Driving Licence and access to use of vehicle.

Responsibilities

• Building supportive, trusting relationships with customers who are currently in refuge to make the transition to permanent accommodation smoother.
• Supporting community customers who have accessed the Sanctuary Scheme to remain in their properties and manage the risks associated with that.
• Supporting key customers to set personalised goals in the form of a move on Support Plan
• Ensuring ongoing assessment and management of risks associated with customers within an attitude of 'positive risk taking.'
• Ensuring customers have full access to any move on welfare support by completing move on paperwork prior to customers move on date

Skills

Full Driving Licence

Education

NVQ Level 2 or equivalent in social care/charity sector

Job description

Look Ahead Care, Support and Housing Ltd invites applications for a Housing Advice Worker in Kent. The role focuses on building supportive relationships with customers in refuge and helping move them to permanent accommodation.

You will support Sanctuary Scheme clients to stay in properties and pursue personalised move-on plans. The post covers assessing risks, promoting positive risk-taking and ensuring move-on welfare paperwork is completed on time.