Housing Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - Unity Housing Support

Unity Housing Support

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Unity Housing Support is a provider of an intensive housing support service in the London across London. We have an exciting opportunity for a proactive and versatile individual to join our North and North West London service as a Housing Support Officer. This role gives the opportunity to spend your days making a real difference to vulnerable adults in the community and allows you to use your own intuition and knowledge to effectively manage a client list of vulnerable adults, so as to aid them to achieve independence.

It is vital that you have; a solution focused approach, a desire to promote health and independence and have an empathetic personality.

Responsibilities:

As a Housing Support Officer (HSO) your primary responsibility is to support a caseload of upto 25 tenants currently living in our supported accommodation.

These tenants will have varying social and health needs.

It will be your responsibility to ensure that they maintain their occupancies through close monitoring and through delivery of weekly support meetings.

As part of this your duties will include:

Building and maintaining a good professional relationship with your tenants.
Generating and implementing person centred support plans, with set objectives and outcomes measured.
Carrying out weekly support meetings to progress those plans.
Accurately and proficiently making a record of all; interactions, plans, incidents and operational matters.
Responding to tenant emergencies and managing crises as they arise.
Where needed, making referrals to specialist support agencies.
Form and maintain good relationships with other agencies, including referral partners and specialist support agencies.
Conduct meaningful business development with referral partners to help grow the service.
Conduct ongoing risk assessment of your tenants.
Inspection of properties for their condition and to identify any fire risks.
Completing the sign up of new tenants.
Monitor Housing Benefit claims and respond to any issues of payments.
Quality Check UHS documents.
Supporting the Head of Operations with ad hoc duties as required.
Respond to complaints or concerns.
Respond to cases of safeguarding concerns.

To be successful in this role you will need to:

Have a good understanding of vulnerable adults and their support needs.
Have good organisation skills.
Be versatile and able to adapt to change in a fast paced environment.
Understand compliance and how to improve compliance in a support setting.
Be confident in the handling of complex and difficult situations.
Be able to confidently work with other agencies in the best interests of your tenants.
Have a drive to continuously improve and grow the service.
Have a compassionate personality with a genuine desire to help others and make a difference.