Street Outreach Worker

Manuele Praktijk Open Hart; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading charitable organization as a Street Outreach Worker in Sheffield. This fulfilling role involves directly engaging with vulnerable adults, supporting their journey away from homelessness, and contributing to community wellbeing through dedicated outreach efforts. Training and career progression opportunities are provided.

Benefits

Career progression and training

Wellbeing support

Employee assistance programme

Stakeholder pension

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid DBS and Update Service

32 days holiday

Loyalty awards

Non-contributory life insurance

Qualifications

• Willingness to learn and engage with vulnerable adults from all backgrounds.
• No experience necessary.

Responsibilities

• Assess individual service user's skills and needs.
• Support rough sleepers in resettlement to long-term accommodation.
• Build the skills and confidence of service users.

Skills

Compassion

Proactivity

Engagement with diverse populations

Job description

STREET OUTREACH WORKER– SHEFFIELD, PERMANENT, 23.5 HRS, GRADE 3, £25,235, FTE

Street Outreach Worker - Sheffield

Do you want a rewarding satisfying job?

Do you want to help people less fortunate than yourself?

Are you compassionate and proactive with a willingness to work in partnership with a variety of agencies to deliver the government's goal to end rough sleeping?

We're looking for passionate and dedicated people with a talent to work with vulnerable adults with a wide range of issues.

We give support to street homeless people, actively going out onto the street to engage with individuals throughout Sheffield who have fallen on hard times and found themselves sleeping rough. We provide free signposting advice to people with all kinds of housing problems who contact our service so we can help them to help themselves.

Experience in this field is not necessary, just a willingness to learn and the capability to engage with people from all walks of life.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To assess individual service user's skills and needs and to work positively with risk
• To support rough sleepers to engage with a process of resettlement into appropriate long term accommodation
• To ensure safety and security of the client
• To build the skills and confidence of service users to empower them in maximising their independence
• To work in partnership with other agencies to maximise service delivery.

Why Join Us?

• We invest in you and encourage career progression – providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
• Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
• Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
• 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays – increasing with service.
• Paid DBS and Update Service.
• Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
• Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures, and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. As one of Nottingham’s few Disability Confident Leaders, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

As an organisation we do not offer sponsorship for overseas candidates as our roles do not come under the Shortage Occupancy List (SOL) for the scheme. Any non-UK citizen who wishes to apply for a role within Framework would need to be able to provide valid RTW in the UK without the need for support from us.