Homeless Prevention Worker - Exeter, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd

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Exeter, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Homeless Prevention Worker - Housing

Reference no:
Devon

Pay Rate:
£17.00 per hour PAYE

37 hours Monday - Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 3-4 months

City:
Exeter, Devon

Enhanced DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role

The purpose of a Homelessness Prevention Worker is to give comprehensive and realistic housing advice and support to Care Leavers who are rough sleeping or at high risk of rough sleeping.

Key Responsibilities:

- ensure that comprehensive and advice and support is available to vulnerable Care Leavers, either through direct work or through advising Personal Advisors, Homelessness Prevention workers and others about available services.

Take a personcentred approach to engage Care Leavers with complex behavioural and emotional needs in the homelessness prevention pathway.
Work as part of a multidisciplinary team engaging young people, families/carers and partner agencies in early intervention solutions to prevent rough sleeping.
Work with partners to achieve the following aims and objectives:
Reduced numbers of Care Leavers at risk of/identified as being homeless/rough sleeping.
Care Leavers are supported and encouraged to make informed choices which enable them to attain and sustain suitable accommodation and which prevents or reduces their risk of becoming homeless or sleeping rough.
Identify Care Leavers at risk of rough sleeping and to deliver or access housing related support to enable them to find and sustain appropriate accommodation and to prevent future homelessness.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.

Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

Job Ref:
Devon

Anticipated Length of Assignment:

Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.