Homelessness Support Worker; Dayshift Road West
Listed on 2026-10-16
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Social Work
Community Health, Mental Health, Home Care, Human Services/ Social Work -
Healthcare
Community Health, Mental Health, Home Care, Human Services/ Social Work
Core Purpose Of
The Role
Empowering and equipping individuals experiencing addiction, mental health, relationship and financial issues to move on from homeless accommodation.
Core Purpose OfThe Role
Empowering and equipping individuals experiencing addiction, mental health, relationship and financial issues to move on from homeless accommodation. To undertake a wide variety of tasks including delivering and arranging high-quality, person-centred support. The service is designed to provide emergency accommodation and support to people, many of whom may be going through periods of crisis. The service will be highly flexible and provide high quality accommodation and support to individuals who urgently require those provisions 365 days of the year, 24 hours a day).
In partnership with external agencies, the service will work alongside people to help to stabilise their situations, empower them to achieve positive outcomes and enable them to return to or move on to tenancies or other appropriate accommodation.
- To support and enable individuals to maintain their accommodation; develop budgeting skills, cook nutritional meals and managing their home.
- Signposting and sourcing appropriate services such as Health Care, Housing,
- Associations, Case Workers, Addiction/Recovery Services.
- To carry out assessments and reviews of support needs as and when necessary due to the changing needs and aspirations of individuals.
- To carry out Risk Enablement Plans as and when necessary due to the changing needs and aspirations of individuals.
- Working with individuals to achieve their desired Support & Development Goals through use of an Outcome Measurement Framework called Better Futures.
- To support individuals to improve their quality of life.
- Strong Support & Leadership
- Excellent Learning and Development opportunities through strong coaching & mentoring in both classroom and on the job environments where you will shadow experienced support workers.
- Access to employee Discount Schemes and Referral Recruitment Bonus.
- Contributory Pension Scheme and 4 x Annual Salary Life Assurance benefit.
- Employee Health Assured assistance programme.
- Cycle to Work Scheme.
- Opportunity to shadow and observe from experienced Support Workers.
- Ability to use your personal skills and experience to help individuals develop.
- SVQ 2 or 3 in Health & Social Care or a commitment to undertake an SVQ
- Registration with the Scottish Social Service Council (SSSC) or a commitment to become registered.
- PVG checks will be required for the successful applicant, as are two references, one being from the most recent employer*
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