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Job Title: Homeless Support Officer
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Derbyshire and Nottingham
Industry: Social Care - Homelessness and Substance Misuse
*You will need to be a car driver for this role as travel is required across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire*
The organisationIn this Homeless Support Officer opportunity in Derbyshire, you will join a charity providing temporary accommodation to adults as week as well as supporting them with housing queries.
Key responsibilitiesIn this Homeless Support Officer job, your responsibilities will include:
- To provide dedicated housing support to keep service users within their tenancies and improve long term recovery outcomes.
- As well as housing knowledge, floating support workers will have specialist knowledge around drug and alcohol issues and provide support to people in their homes to improve their engagement in treatment services.
- To utilise case managements skills to provide coordination of interventions and activities to empower the recovery of individuals accessing services.
- Deliver activities and interventions which may be alongside peers in line with personal budgets.
- To work collaboratively with external partner agencies to provide support to Service Users that meets their needs through all stages of their individual recovery journey
- To carry out duties in line with organisational policies and procedures
- Proven track record of working In a homeless service or substance misuse before - dealt with a caseload and support sessions
- Holds an enhanced DBS child and adult cleared - Issued In the last 12 months or on the update service
- Flexible to work shift work basis - 5 days over 7
If you feel you meet the above criteria for a Homeless Support Officer please apply within, for more details you can call the office on .
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