Housing First Team Leader - Bristol, United Kingdom - Voscur

Description

This role involves providing leadership and guidance to the Ara Housing First Practitioners together with holding a caseload of HF clients who have histories of entrenched or repeat rough sleeping, often with multiple and serious support needs, for whom traditional homelessness approaches have not been successful.

This role involves providing leadership and guidance to the Ara Housing First Practitioners, promoting a positive culture and partnership working, and supervising the delivery of a service with a high level of fidelity to the Housing First principles. Some of the key tasks for this role include to:

• Provide a high level of guidance, support, and case management for the Housing First Workers, ensuring that a person-centred, trauma informed, and strength-based approach is implemented.
• Work with the Ara Housing Manager to ensure all relevant commissioner reporting is completed to high quality, and in a timely manner.
• Deliver wrap-around intensive, trauma informed support to people with multiple and complex issues within their own independent tenancies in the community (caseload = 5 max).

Essential skills and experience needed include:

• Significant experience of supporting clients facing multiple disadvantage including homelessness.
• Significant experience of leading a team within a similar industry.
• Have a good understanding of housing and tenancy legislation and policies.
• Experience of developing partnerships and working with agencies across sectors in relation to homelessness, substance mis-use, offending behaviour, and mental health.

Closing date for applications – Friday 19 th April but we will interview suitable candidates immediately. If shortlisted, first stage will be a 15-minute phone interview.

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Kings Court11-12 King StreetBristolBS14EF