Housing Support Worker
Required
A well-established support provider in Bristol are currently looking for a Housing Support Worker to provide high quality accommodation and housing related support to clients with complex needs.
Location: Bristol
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 35 hours Monday to Friday with occasional weekend and on-call cover
Salary: £24,348 - £25,971
Vacancy number: J66582 / 67794
Day-to-Day Duties:
- Use Housing Support Register (HSR) to identify clients eligible for the housing services
- Provide comprehensive assessment of housing support needs, ensuring clients meet eligibility criteria, needs are identified, and support plans developed
- Undertake client admissions, ensuring that they understand their licence/tenancy agreement, explaining health and safety information, completing benefit claims and other admissions processes
- Develop risk management plans and share information as appropriate in the best interest of the client
- Adhere to safeguarding policies and procedures
- Develop housing support plans that meet the identified needs of the client for the complete recovery journey
- Link in clients with Peer Mentors to enable and support them to access and attend appointments
- Identify next steps and move on for clients, recording these steps and developing implementation plans and identifying resources to enable clients to complete their recovery journey
Essential skills:
- Full UK drivers licence and use of a car (Desirable)
- Enhanced DBS
- Experience working with clients with complex needs such as homelessness or substance misuse issues
- Good knowledge of health and safety, safeguarding and data protection policies
To apply for this role or to find out about other Supported Housing jobs, please contact Ashleigh Clarke or Paulo Davis from the Bristol Housing Recruitment team on 0117 930 8760 or aclarke@venngroup.com
Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.