Substance & Complex Needs Worker - Borehamwood, United Kingdom - One YMCA

One YMCA

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Borehamwood, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you committed to supporting the most vulnerable and hard-to-reach individuals in society?

Do you have demonstrable experience working in partnership to support those with a long history of homelessness, mental health and substance use?

Would you like the opportunity to work as part of a friendly, high-performing team to deliver a high-quality service to residents?

Benefits:

As well as a supportive manager and great colleagues, we offer a health cash plan contributing to medical, dental and optician costs; a private 24/7 GP service (including video consultations); life cover; numerous retail discounts; a pension scheme; and confidential lifestyle support and advice.

About our service:

MCISS Borehamwood is a partnership between Hertsmere Council, Hertfordshire County Council and One YMCA. It is a 24-bed site, working with those with complex needs and often long histories of homelessness.

The role:

You will be part of a team of three specialist workers delivering accommodation and support to Single Homeless Individuals. working with the Homelessness Prevention Pathway, in line with the organisations overarching mission of ending homelessness and rough sleeping.

You will support a caseload of residents and you will have an understanding of complex needs, childhood trauma and therapeutic approaches.

Residents will be supported to identify and focus on realistic and achievable short, medium and long term goals.

You will work five days over seven on a rota that also covers weekends.

About One YMCA

This is an exciting time to be joining One YMCA as we embark on an ambitious plan to grow our housing service and double the impact we have across all our accommodation sites.

In 2020/21 we provided over 185,030 nights of safe and secure accommodation to those most in need.

Providing considerably more than just accommodation our highly experienced support and complex-needs team deliver over 23,000 housing related support sessions each year through which our housing team were able to support a total of 992 vulnerable individuals to escape homelessness and rough sleeping with 463 of our residents being helped to move-on positively into their own long term settled accommodation.

One YMCA is entering a period of rapid expansion and growth, with aspirations to both diversify and strengthen our housing provision.

Working with and supported by local partners, whilst accessing a range of funding streams, we aim to successfully deliver the 2025 Missions 25 (5 year) strategy to end homelessness and rough sleeping across the three counties.

**An Enhanced DBS Disclosure Check is required for this role.