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Your new role

• To engage with a range of individuals who have adopted ‘ street-based
  Living’, including rough sleepers and beggars with a view to engaging them
  In appropriate services and moving them into more settled lifestyles.

• Increase service user choice, service user involvement and empower
  Service users to maintain sustainable change; working collaboratively and
  Proactively to ensure that services are fully co-ordinated and are working
  Collectively towards the achievement of goals and positive outcomes for
  Each individual client.

• To build and develop service users’ personal strengths and social networks
  In the UK and/or in the individual’s country of origin.

• To provide a range of flexible and effective interventions to engage with
  Hard to reach service users.

Key Duties

• To identify and establish contact with rough sleepers and beggars, working
• Within protocols to rapidly assist service users through street outreach shifts at a
• Variety of times and a range of locations.
• To identify and establish contact with entrenched rough sleepers, including
• Those unwilling to engage with services, providing assertive outreach.
• To assist homeless service users in being discharged from hospital at an
• Appropriate time by moving them into appropriate accommodation as quickly

What you'll need to succeed

• Understanding of the needs of people who are rough sleeping and/or begging

• In-depth knowledge of at least one of the following: substance misuse, alcohol
  Misuse, mental health

• Understanding of service users who have multiple and complex needs.

• Understanding the importance of multi-agency working within a strength
  Based on an asset-building approach and maintaining professional boundaries

• Experience of facilitating multi-agency meetings

What you'll get in return

• Full time hours

• Weekly competitive pay

What you need to do now

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.

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