Housing First Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - St Mungo's

St Mungo's

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London, United Kingdom

6 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you ready to take the next step in your career supporting vulnerable people in Camden?
Housing First is an innovative approach to supporting the most, excluded and hard to reach clients. It focuses on finding housing first; and then addressing the issues that have contributed to an individual's homelessness.

The Camden Housing First service aims to support hard to reach clients with complex needs; by sourcing independent tenancies and providing intensive support into long term accommodation.

By adopting a flexible, creative and personalised approach, the service aims to support individuals to manage their tenancies in the community and rebuild their lives.

As the Housing First Coordinator you will have the opportunity to lead on the development and day-to-day delivery of the service, taking responsibility for line management, support and supervision of Housing First Workers and overseeing case management so they can provide intensive high quality support to their individual caseload of clients.

This role will largely be Monday-Friday 9am-5pm.

About you

Experience managing complex and difficult situations in relations to people, some day to day management/supervision of staff or volunteers or willingness to develop these skills.
Great communication skills, with the ability to network and build effective relationships with a variety people.
Understanding of the issues involved in providing support to people with complex support needs including mental and physical health needs, substance dependency and who may be on low (or no) income.

How to apply

Closing date: 10am on Monday 17 July 2023
**Interview and assessments on: Friday 28 July 2023