Housing First Practitioner (Wirral

About the Role:

This role is subject to an Enhanced DBS Check.

This role is fixed-term until 31/03/2029.

Please note- previous applicants need not apply.

We welcome applications from people with lived experience of homelessness or any of the other issues affecting our service users. We are therefore willing to consider applicants who have acquired the knowledge, experience and skills required from either their work experience, lived experience, volunteering experience, academic study, or any combination of those sources.

The Housing First Practitioner is responsible for coordinating and providing personalised, trauma-informed support. Providing support in line with the Housing First Principles to individuals with multiple complex needs.

The focus is to provide intensive support and practical help to individuals to help them maintain their tenancies and work with them to clarify their goals.

Housing First Practitioners have much smaller caseloads of individuals to support, and the role may involve working with people on their journey from rough sleeping (via outreach work) through to finding and sustaining accommodation.

The Housing First practitioner will provide flexible, open-ended step up and step-down packages of support, advice and assistance to people who are/have been homeless, so that they are able to access and maintain a safe and secure home of their own, in line with Housing First principles.

You will work as part of a small, dynamic team, including a locality manager who will provide supervision and support.

This is a role where the successful candidate will be expected to work across the whole of Wirral and may occasionally be required to cover other parts of the Liverpool City Region.

Deliver high quality person-centered support in line with Housing First principles including:

• Establish open and trusting relationships with people who are/have been homeless or in temporary/insecure accommodation, and who are experiencing complex issues.
• Support individuals to achieve their goals and outcomes through intensive strength-based case management, ensuring each individual has a plan of support that includes professional rationales and is led by the individual.
• Enable service users to access community resources, support the removal of barriers to engagement within mainstream services.
• Provide positive support to the individual to improve engagement and provide practical and emotional support.
• Develop an enabling partnership approach that supports all people using the service to attain their rights and entitlement.
• Actively identify the strengths, assets and aspirations of individuals and enable, encourage and empower the access to relevant opportunities and/or services.

Please ensure that you provide clear examples and evidence in your application of how you meet the below key essential criteria. The information you provide in your application will be used for shortlisting.

1) Understanding and experience of working in a Trauma-informed way and the ability to establish open, trusting relationships whilst working assertively and empathetically with people who have enduring and complex support needs. Please give examples.

2) Ability to adapt and work responsively with service users, supporting them to articulate their goals and aspirations. Please give examples.

3) Ability to develop working partnerships to gain the most positive outcome for the person you are supporting. Please give examples.

Please highlight how you meet the remaining essential criteria outlined in the person specification within your CV.

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