Outreach Plus Worker

Homeless Link; Weymouth; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rewards Platform

Employee Assistance Programme

Health Cash Plan

27 days annual leave

30% staff discount

Pension scheme

Regular supervisions

Blue Light Card

Reflective Practice sessions

Job summary

Alongside is seeking an Outreach Plus Worker in Weymouth to proactively engage individuals experiencing homelessness across Dorset. You will build trust, assess needs, develop support plans, and link clients to housing, health and welfare services.

The role is frontline, fast-paced and community-based, requiring resilience and initiative. Based in Weymouth, you’ll work with partner agencies to reduce rough sleeping and improve client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Full driving license and access to own vehicle for work purposes.
• Experience working with vulnerable adults and/or people with complex needs preferred.
• Ability to work flexibly including early mornings, evenings and weekends when required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct outreach across Dorset to identify and engage individuals who are rough sleeping or at risk of homelessness.
• Build positive and trusting relationships with vulnerable individuals who may be reluctant to engage with services.
• Provide practical support including accessing housing, benefits, healthcare, and welfare services; continue support during accommodation.
• Advocate to reduce barriers and work with local authorities, health services, housing providers and partner agencies.
• Contribute to developing outreach initiatives to reduce rough sleeping and improve outcomes.

Skills

Driving license

Vehicle ownership

Engaging with vulnerable adults

Job description

Job Role: Outreach Worker

Salary: £26,200 per year

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Weymouth

Additional information

Valid driver's license and access to own vehicle – business insurance will be required for roles involving travel for work.

Ability to work flexibly, including early mornings, evenings, and weekends when required.

About Alongside

Alongside is the new name for Julian House. We work with people experiencing social exclusion across the South and West of England, providing outreach, accommodation and support. Our clients may be sleeping rough, fleeing abuse, rebuilding after trauma, leaving prison, recovering from addiction, or trying to settle safely in a new community. Whatever their starting point, we work alongside people to help build safety, stability and independence.

If you’d like a real sense of job satisfaction, great career prospects and a competitive benefits package, you could be who we’re looking for

About the Role

As an Outreach Plus Worker, you’ll be on the frontline providing proactive outreach and support to individuals experiencing homelessness, rough sleeping, or at risk of homelessness across Dorset. The role involves engaging individuals in the community, building trusting relationships, completing assessments, developing support plans, and linking individuals with accommodation, health, substance misuse, welfare, and other support services.

Based in Weymouth, you’ll work out in the community, building trust, tackling challenges head‑on, and helping people access the support they need. This is a fast‑paced, hands‑on role where resilience, initiative, and a proactive mindset are key.

If you want to join a passionate team, work alongside partner agencies, and help create lasting change that makes an impact, we want to hear from you!

What you’ll be doing

As an Outreach Plus Worker you will be conducting outreach across Dorset to identify and engage individuals who are rough sleeping or at risk of homelessness.

In this role you will need to build positive and trusting relationships with vulnerable individuals who may be reluctant to engage with services.

You'll be responsible for providing practical support to individuals, including assistance with accessing housing, benefits, healthcare, substance misuse services, and community resources and continue this support whilst clients are accommodated.

To be successful in this role you will be able to advocate on behalf of individuals to help reduce barriers to accessing support and work collaboratively with local authorities, health services, housing providers, voluntary organisations and other partnering agencies.

This is an exciting role for anyone who wants to contribute to the development of outreach initiatives, aimed at reducing rough sleeping and improving outcomes for vulnerable individuals

What we’re looking for

You will need a Full driving license and access to own vehicle for work purposes, with business insurance.

Ideally you will have experience working with vulnerable adults and/or people with complex needs and challenging behaviours.

There are many great reasons to join our team

At Alongside you will have access to our Rewards Platform, which includes an Employee Assistance Programme and Health Cash Plan

27 days annual leave, including an extra day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays - increasing up to 30 days after 4 years of continuous employment (pro rata for part‑time staff)

30% staff discount at Julian House charity shop

A generous and competitive pension scheme

A supportive culture where staff feedback is highly valued and regular supervisions with line managers are conducted

Great opportunities for career development and free monthly training sessions from experienced facilitators

For all the fantastic and valuable work, you’ll be doing, you’ll be eligible for the Blue Light Card which offers amazing discounts on thousands of brands

Reflective Practice sessions from objective, external facilitators

Our Ethos

As an Equal Opportunities employer, we have an Equality and Diversity Action plan in place showing our commitment in ensuring continuous improvement in creating an inclusive culture. We also have a committed group of Inclusion & Diversity champions who meet monthly to ensure progress is being made. We invite applications from people from all backgrounds and cultures, especially minority groups that are underrepresented in the workplace. We also welcome applications from those with lived experience. We embrace flexibility and are proud to be a Disability Confident and Mindful employer, as well as an Armed Forces Covenant Supporter.

If you have any special access requirements or other support needs throughout the application process (including interview), please contact us so that we can let you know how we can support you. We accept CVs and applications in all formats.

DBS Checks

We welcome applications from people with lived experience. All applicants working with our clients will be expected to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. A criminal conviction will not necessarily prevent you from becoming an employee, the decision will depend on the type of offence and its relevance to the role. If you would like to discuss any convictions you may have, please contact the person named in the advert. All information will be dealt with according to our Data Protection Policy.

We reserve the right to close our vacancies once the perfect candidate has been found. We recommend submitting your application as soon as possible so that you don’t miss out!