Homelessness Team Housing Worker

Job overview

Are you a brilliant advocate? Do you want to help prevent early death and reduce health inequalities in people experiencing homelessness? Do you like solving difficult problems, and changing hearts and minds. Are you a jack of all trades? If so, then this job is for you.

Our teams work with people experiencing homelessness when they visit A&E or are admitted to hospital. We work to ensure these patients get all the acute medical treatment that they need whilst they are at or within the hospital. We also work to ensure that patients are discharged safely and effectively in a way that stops the revolving door, and improves patient’s long-term health outcomes. This includes working to ensure that homeless patient’s support needs in the community are met post discharge, for example connecting with primary care, mental health services and addictions support, medication concordance support, screening, vaccination and health promotion opportunities.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a motivated individual, with a strong understanding homelessness safeguarding, and who understands the complexities of undertaking mental capacity assessments in inclusion health groups. A positive, can do ‘attitude’, a commitment to changing care for this extremely vulnerable patient group, and a desire to communicate with a wide variety of partners and stakeholders is essential.

The main duties of the role will be assisting in the service aims. These are as follows:

Effectively engage the patient in all relevant services / support, Maximise the benefit of the attendance / admission for the patient from a health and social care perspective, Link the patient into all necessary health and social care and support pending discharge, Advocate for the patient to receive assessment, treatment or services when this is required Safeguard patients effectively Ensure a safe and effective discharge to accommodation (where this is possible) Stop the revolving door

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.