# Homeless Health Housing Coordinator > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/homeless-health-housing-coordinator/473ec308-059c-4f69-ae3f-6514d22ce26e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/homeless-health-housing-coordinator/473ec308-059c-4f69-ae3f-6514d22ce26e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 5 - **Salary:** £38,488 - £46,852 pa inclusive - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 3 years (end date 31-Mar-2029) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-06-28T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-15T21:02:35.050Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Imperial_College_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Integrated_Care_Homeless_Health_Team/Integrated_Care_Homeless_Health_Team-v8081220 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8081220?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you a motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic housing officer with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping? Would you like to work within an acute hospital supporting patients that are homeless or at risk of homelessness? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to be involved in our specialist Homeless Health team at a critical time in its development. We have a Band 5 Homeless Health Housing Coordinator post within the team that we are recruiting to as our team has been funded by an extra 3 years with development opportunities. The Homeless Health team is multi-disciplinary and operates a reactive and fast- moving service. The team is necessary to redress the stark health inequalities suffered by the homeless population. The average age of death for rough sleepers is 43 years old (women) and 47 (men) compared with 80 and 74 in the general population. The homeless health team seeks to overcome the barriers that homeless people face accessing high quality services.  Through this approach, the team also aims to reduce delayed and premature discharges, and reduce unscheduled admissions and A&E attendances. The Homeless Health Housing Coordinator will work with patients on our wards, in Accident and Emergency (A&E) and may need to outreach into the community to support patients to secure housing, access health care and post discharge for follow ups. The post holder will be expected to work on site Monday to Friday. ### Main duties of the job - You will play a vital role in improving the quality of care for homeless hospital patients by providing specialist housing advice, advocacy, support, and quality discharge interventions, with a particular focus on accommodation options. - Working as part of a multi-disciplinary Homeless Health team, you will ensure safe, appropriate, and sustainable hospital discharges and support patients to access housing, benefits, primary health care, and follow-up appointments after discharge. - You will undertake detailed housing assessments that will help prove a patient’s homelessness, eligibility, priority for housing and established local connection. - You will maintain regular contact with and support a caseload of patients during admission and post-discharge, including visiting discharge locations and escorting patients to appointments when necessary. - You will accompany patients to Housing Options offices to provide face-to-face advocacy and resolve disputes to achieve the best outcomes. - You will act as an advocate for patients within the clinical setting and with external agencies, clearly communicating patient circumstances to hospital staff and external providers. - You will assist patients to understand and obtain their welfare, housing, and related rights, addressing barriers such as language, culture, mental or physical health. - You will be good at partnership working, building relationships and liaising with Local Authorities Housing departments and hospital clinical teams. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Job Details Are you a motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic housing officer with significant experience of working with people that are homeless or rough sleeping? Would you like to work within an acute hospital supporting patients that are homeless or at risk of homelessness? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to be involved in our specialist Homeless Health team at a critical time in its development. We have a Band 5 Homeless Health Housing Coordinator post within the team that we are recruiting to as our team has been funded by an extra 3 years with development opportunities. The Homeless Health team is multi-disciplinary and operates a reactive and fast- moving service. The team is necessary to redress the stark health inequalities suffered by the homeless population. The average age of death for rough sleepers is 43 years old (women) and 47 (men) compared with 80 and 74 in the general population. The homeless health team seeks to overcome the barriers that homeless people face accessing high quality services. Through this approach, the team also aims to reduce delayed and premature discharges, and reduce unscheduled admissions and A&E attendances. The Homeless Health Housing Coordinator will work with patients on our wards, in Accident and Emergency (A&E) and may need to outreach into the community to support patients to secure housing, access health care and post discharge for follow ups. The post holder will be expected to work on site Monday to Friday. ## Job Description You will play a vital role in improving the quality of care for homeless hospital patients by providing specialist housing advice, advocacy, support, and quality discharge interventions, with a particular focus on accommodation options. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary Homeless Health team, you will ensure safe, appropriate, and sustainable hospital discharges and support patients to access housing, benefits, primary health care, and follow-up appointments after discharge. You will undertake detailed housing assessments that will help prove a patient’s homelessness, eligibility, priority for housing and established local connection. You will maintain regular contact with and support a caseload of patients during admission and post-discharge, including visiting discharge locations and escorting patients to appointments when necessary. You will accompany patients to Housing Options offices to provide face-to-face advocacy and resolve disputes to achieve the best outcomes. You will act as an advocate for patients within the clinical setting and with external agencies, clearly communicating patient circumstances to hospital staff and external providers. You will assist patients to understand and obtain their welfare, housing, and related rights, addressing barriers such as language, culture, mental or physical health. You will be good at partnership working, building relationships and liaising with Local Authorities Housing departments and hospital clinical teams. ## Responsibilities The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert. ## Person Specification ### Experience / Skills **Essential** - Direct work experience with homeless clients or clients with addictions - Experience of independent practice with homeless people and within a team - Experience of case management - Experience of working in partnership and negotiating with a wide variety of agencies - Experience of dealing with complex housing issues - Able to work in partnership with and negotiate with a wide variety of partnership agencies, and other NHS providers. - Ability to write a report. Good IT skills (WORD, POWERPOINT etc.) **Desirable** - Experience of working in partnership with voluntary/ statutory agencies - Experience of working directly with statutory homeless agencies e.g. Local Authority Homeless Persons Units - Able to influence and negotiate independently across complex boundaries ### Education/ Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent experience. - Good general knowledge base in the health issues surrounding homeless people e.g. mental health, drug and alcohol misuse, impact of health needs of no recourse to public funds patients. **Desirable** - Completed formal education / specialist course in a relevant area e.g. addictions. ## Documents - [frf (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10373401) - [jd & ps (pdf, 590.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10373400) - [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.