Outreach Worker - Needed across London

Morgan Hunt

  • London
  • Temporary
  • Full-time
  • 12 days ago
Outreach Worker - Needed across various London locationsHours: 37.5 per weekLocation: Across LondonPay £15.86-£20Rota: 37.5 hours Monday - FridayHours: Mixture of shifts - 3x 09:00-17:00 shifts and 2x 05:00-13:00 plus one street count shift a month (21:00-02:00)Being a car driver is desirable but not a requirementWe are building on our Outreach Worker candidate pool as we are seeing various positions come through all across London Working within the Outreach Team will give you the opportunity to make a huge impact to the lives of rough sleepers. This is a challenging but rewarding role that requires you to assess rough sleepers, advising them around their available options and link them in with external services in accordance with their needs.As an Outreach Worker you will:
  • Work in pairs to cover the outreach shift responsibilities and lone work with risk assessed service users to attend appointments in the community
  • Supporting rough sleepers to access appropriate social care services and accommodation options
  • Be a first response to referrals, carrying out needs and risk assessments with new rough sleepers
  • Update assessments on rough sleepers already known to the team
  • Regularly update the CHAIN database
  • Find the best cause of action for each client's scenario
  • Work alongside other agencies including, local authorities, health services, housing providers, the police, and drug & alcohol services
To be successful you will need to:
  • Have excellent interpersonal skills
  • Be flexible and responsive to meet the needs of rough sleepers
  • Have the confidence and ability to manage a caseload of complex clients
  • Have the necessary IT skills to collect, collate and interpret data
  • Be confident in representing our client at external meetings and with outside agencies
  • You must have an enhanced, adult and child DBS check to apply for this post, if you need one, get in touch
To be Successful as an Outreach worker, you will have:
  • Excellent communication skills, and the ability to build strong effective working relationships.
  • The ability to empower individuals to make positive changes and a willingness to develop on these skills.
  • The ability to work flexibly on a shift rota basis with people on the streets and in different locations within the borough.
Our Hillingdon based clients is willing to look at candidates who do not have direct outreach experience, but you must have experience in dealing with homeless people in a social care settingThis is a fantastic opportunity within a great team. If this sounds of interest to you apply today!Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to temporary vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer, job suitability are assessed on merit in accordance with their skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.

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