Homeless Health Housing Coordinator

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 we are awaiting news as to whether our team will be funded beyond its initial 3 year term.

The Homeless Health team is multi-disciplinary and operates a reactive and fast- moving service. It aims to provide enhanced inpatient care and ensure safe, appropriate, and sustainable hospital discharges that meet the needs of individual homeless patients. Through this approach, the team also aims to reduce delayed and premature discharges, and reduce unscheduled admissions, repeat admissions and A&E attendances.

You will receive specialist support from a multi disciplinary network of partners and stakeholders and supervision from within the Imperial Homeless Health team.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with patients on our wards, in Accident and Emergency (A&E) and may need to outreach into the community to support patients post discharge for follow ups. The post holder will be expected to work on site Monday to Friday.  The post holder will undertake detailed housing assessments that will help prove a patient’s homelessness, eligibility, priority for housing and established local connection. The post holder will escort patients to Housing Options departments to provide advocacy as necessary. The post holder will build relationships and liaise with Local Authorities Housing departments to achieve the best results for the patients.

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.