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Outreach Worker
Job summary
A dedicated support service provider is seeking a compassionate Outreach Worker to join their team in Reading, focusing on helping individuals experiencing homelessness and substance misuse. The role includes engaging with rough sleepers, offering support, and collaborating with various agencies to ensure access to services. Candidates should possess experience in similar fields and have strong communication skills. This is a temporary position with flexible working hours available.
Benefits
Qualifications
- Previous experience in outreach work, homelessness services, or substance misuse support.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and harm reduction approaches.
Responsibilities
- Identify and contact rough sleepers and beggars through outreach.
- Assist homeless service users in adapting to accommodation.
- Collaborate with agencies for mental health support.
Skills
Outreach Worker - Reading Service Care Solutions are recruiting for an Outreach Worker to join a homelessness and substance misuse service in Reading.
Pay Rate: £23.00 Ltd per hour
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM) or part-time (22.5 hours per week)
Contract: Temporary (6 months) with potential for extension
Start Date: Immediate
We are seeking a proactive and compassionate Outreach Worker to engage with individuals living a street-based lifestyle, including rough sleepers and beggars. The goal is to connect them with appropriate services and support them in moving towards more settled and sustainable lifestyles.
- Identify and establish contact with rough sleepers and beggars through street outreach shifts at various times and locations.
- Provide assertive outreach to entrenched rough sleepers, including those unwilling to engage with services.
- Assist homeless service users in being discharged from hospital promptly by securing appropriate accommodation.
- Work closely with drug and alcohol teams to ensure substance misusers and problem drinkers can access treatment.
- Offer advice on substance misuse using recognised models such as Motivational Interviewing, supporting individuals to explore concerns and decide on actions.
- Collaborate with mental health agencies to ensure service users have access to appropriate mental health support.
- Ensure service users have access to ongoing healthcare and support for immediate needs.
- Build and develop service users' personal strengths and social networks in the UK or their country of origin.
- Empower service users to maintain sustainable change through choice, involvement, and coordinated services.
- Previous experience in outreach work, homelessness services, or substance misuse support.
- Strong communication and engagement skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multi-agency team.
- Knowledge of safeguarding and harm reduction approaches.
- Dedicated consultant support
- Weekly payroll
- Free compliance assistance
- Access to training and professional development
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