Mental Health Housing First Worker

CITY OF YORK COUNCIL; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in York seeks a committed individual to provide support for individuals experiencing rough sleeping or mental health challenges. This role involves direct assistance, coordination of housing solutions, and collaboration with local services. Candidates must demonstrate competency in spoken English and management of risk, and a basic criminal record check is required. Benefits include annual leave, pension scheme, health initiatives, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous annual leave allowance

Access to Local Government Pension Scheme

Health & Wellbeing initiatives

Flexible working practices

Continuous Learning & Development

Qualifications

• Can express themselves fluently and spontaneously in spoken English.
• Demonstrated ability to manage risk effectively.

Responsibilities

• Assist in reducing rough sleeping and single homelessness.
• Provide direct support to individuals with multiple needs.
• Coordinate creative accommodation solutions.
• Deliver intensive, trauma-informed support.
• Make referrals to specialist agencies as needed.
• Adhere to safeguarding procedures.

Skills

Competency in spoken English at CEFR level C1

Managing risk for self and others

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit a highly committed and enthusiastic individual to provide high quality support to a caseload of individuals who have either extensive experience of rough sleeping or have spent a significant time within the mental health services due to having complex needs, supporting their engagement with local services in a coordinated approach.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the reduction of rough sleeping/single homelessness in the city.
• Provide direct support to a caseload of individuals facing multiple needs and exclusions and work closely with external partners to influence change in the way that local services coordinate responses for this group.
• Use housing first principles to coordinate creative accommodation solutions for customers who have typically struggled to maintain previous tenancies and who find shared living arrangements difficult to manage.
• Deliver wrap‑around intensive, trauma‑informed support to people with multiple and complex issues within their own independent tenancies in the community.
• Coordinate support packages and make referrals / signpost to specialist agencies as appropriate and accompany customers to services.
• Adhere to safeguarding procedures with a positive risk‑taking approach to ensure the well‑being of the individuals, identifying and managing risk for self, colleagues and customers being supported.
• Demonstrate competency to converse and provide advice and guidance to members of the public in spoken English to CEFR level C1 at interview.

Qualifications

• Competency in spoken English at CEFR level C1: can express themselves fluently and spontaneously, almost effortlessly.
• Ability to demonstrate managing risk for self, colleagues and customers being supported.
• Required to undertake a basic Criminal Record check (unspent convictions only) via the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Benefits

We can offer a generous annual leave allowance, access to the Local Government Pension Scheme, comprehensive Health & Wellbeing initiatives and a reward package which recognises your contribution. Flexible working practices, community engagement and volunteer activities, continuous Learning & Development, and a growing range of discounts, rewards and savings are also available.