Trauma-Informed Outreach Support Worker

Oldham; Chadderton; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

LGPS pension

Gym discount

Staff discount scheme

Cycle to Work

Wellbeing support

Peer support groups

Job summary

Oldham Council is recruiting for an Adult Support Worker within the Changing Futures service. This fixed-term 3-year role, based at Oldham Council, Spindles Shopping Centre, Oldham, offers a hybrid working pattern and delivers intensive, relationship-based support to adults facing multiple disadvantages, including homelessness and substance misuse.

You will work in a traumainformed team, providing outreach-based services, coordinating with a MDT, and developing personalised support plans to help

Responsibilities

• Provide intensive, outreach-based support to adults experiencing multiple disadvantage, working flexibly across community settings, homes, and partner organisations
• Build trusting, consistent relationships with individuals who may be disengaged from services, using a traumainformed and strengths-based approach
• Lead on and contribute to Team Around the Adult (TAA) meetings, ensuring coordinated multiagency support
• Work in partnership with the MEAM Hub MDT, contributing to shared decision-making, risk management and planning
• Develop and review person-centred support plans, focused on individual goals and meaningful outcomes
• Advocate on behalf of individuals to challenge barriers within systems, ensuring access to appropriate services
• Work closely with partners across Adult Social Care, health, housing, substance misuse, VCSE and criminal justice services
• Identify and escalate risk and safeguarding concerns, ensuring appropriate action is taken in line with policy
• Support individuals through periods of instability while maintaining engagement and continuity
• Contribute to the identification of system barriers, service gaps and patterns of disengagement, feeding into service development and improvement

Job description

Oldham Council is recruiting for an Adult Support Worker within the Changing Futures service. This fixed-term 3-year role, based at Oldham Council, Spindles Shopping Centre, Oldham, offers a hybrid working pattern and delivers intensive, relationship-based support to adults facing multiple disadvantages, including homelessness and substance misuse.

You will work in a traumainformed team, providing outreach-based services, coordinating with a MDT, and developing personalised support plans to help