Rough Sleeper Recovery Worker

Location:

Canterbury

Salary: £26,000 per annum

Are you passionate about supporting people experiencing homelessness to make positive changes and move towards a safer, more stable future? Do you have experience working with people affected by substance misuse and complex needs, and the commitment to engage with individuals who may face significant barriers to accessing support?

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Rough Sleepers Initiative in Canterbury as a Rough Sleeper Recovery Worker, supporting adults aged 18 and over who are experiencing homelessness and drug and alcohol issues.

Working alongside outreach workers within a multi-agency setting, you will provide specialist, person-centred support to individuals sleeping rough or at risk of homelessness. Your focus will be on helping people move away from the streets and into suitable accommodation, while preventing street homelessness wherever possible. You will work with individuals experiencing complex challenges, building trusting relationships and helping them access the treatment, healthcare and wider support they need.

You will manage a small caseload of individuals with the most complex needs, providing intensive, tailored support to help them engage with services and work towards recovery. Using both harm reduction and abstinence-based approaches, you will deliver interventions that reflect each person's circumstances, needs and goals.

• completing comprehensive assessments, developing risk management plans and implementing SMART care plans.
• providing appropriate harm reduction advice and guidance, delivering structured one-to-one interventions and facilitating group-work sessions to encourage engagement, reduce risks and support positive change.
• working collaboratively with outreach workers and partner agencies to develop effective pathways into treatment and support services for people who may be difficult to engage.
• sharing your specialist knowledge by providing advice, guidance and training to other outreach workers, helping to strengthen their confidence and effectiveness in supporting individuals with complex needs.
• coordinating with healthcare services, Probation, Housing Options Teams and other community organisations to promote continuity of support.
• ensuring that individuals receive joined-up support to address their substance misuse, health, housing and wider wellbeing needs.
• contributing to achieving the targets set by Forward and the Rough Sleepers Initiative, with a particular focus on measuring outcomes and demonstrating positive progress for the people you support.

Through effective partnership working with healthcare services, Probation, Housing Options Teams and other community organisations, you will help coordinate care and promote continuity of support. You will play a key role in ensuring that individuals receive joined-up support to address their substance misuse, health, housing and wider wellbeing needs.

The role will cover the Canterbury District, with occasional travel outside the area where necessary to support clients placed in emergency accommodation elsewhere. Flexibility is essential, and working hours may include early mornings, late evenings and weekends.

This is a rewarding opportunity to make a meaningful difference to some of the most vulnerable members of our community, helping people move away from rough sleeping, access treatment and take steps towards lasting recovery and stability.

You will be an enthusiastic, empathetic and resilient practitioner with experience in substance misuse services and a genuine commitment to supporting people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantages. You will understand the complex challenges faced…