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Rough Sleeper Support Worker

Employer
Barnet Homes - Part of The Barnet Group
Location
Barnet (City/Town), London (Greater)
Salary
£29,083 per annum
Closing date
6 Oct 2019

Job Details

Rough Sleeper Support Worker
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Term: 12 months fixed term contract
Location: Barnet

Are you passionate about helping people facing homelessness?
Can you work in a fast-paced frontline service?

The Housing Options service at Barnet Homes works on the frontline of homelessness in Barnet, providing housing and homelessness advice to those in need in one of the most popular places to live in London.

This is an exciting time to deliver new services in Barnet to help reduce rough sleeping in the Borough. Working with partner agencies including Health, Community Safety, Social Care and voluntary agencies you will provide outreach and floating support to those who are rough sleeping.

You will have experience of working with vulnerable people with support needs and have a good understanding of the factors that contribute to individuals being at risk of rough sleeping.  The role will require working flexible hours on a rota  including some evenings early mornings and weekends for which an additional out of hours allowance will be paid.

Barnet Homes is a dynamic organisation, always looking for innovative and fresh ideas to tackle the challenging situations we face every day. If you think you've got what it takes to be part of our team, please submit your application by the end of the day on Sunday 22nd September 2019

Company

The Barnet Group is a local authority trading company created in February 2012. We are owned by Barnet Council.

We employ approximately 1,000 members of staff in a wide range of roles; from care workers to plumbers and carpenters. We also have many office-based roles for our ever-growing organisation. We are a London Living Wage employer, and pride ourselves on our equality, diversity and inclusion, as well as the opportunities we provide for staff growth and development.

We are the parent company to:

  • Barnet Homes – this manages the borough’s 15,000 council homes on behalf of Barnet Council. It also works to prevent homelessness and allocates homes to social housing applicants
  • Opendoor Homes – a subsidiary of Barnet Homes which gained Registered Provider status from the Homes and Communities Agency in 2016. Opendoor is developing an initial 320 new homes in the borough, and has ambitions to build many more. It is also purchasing homes on the open market for affordable rent.
  • Bumblebee – an online estate agent providing quality bespoke property services to landlords and tenants, throughout Barnet and the surrounding areas.
  • TBG Flex – a company for the recruitment and employment of new staff.
  • Your Choice Barnet – an adult social care company that provides day services, respite centres, extra care schemes and care homes to adults with learning and physical disabilities, older adults and adults with additional care needs.

Our mission is to make a real difference to every customer.

We also offer services to the wider community. These include a let2barnet lettings service for private landlords, and BOOST, an employment and training support service.

Company info
Website
Telephone
0208 359 2798
Location
The Barnet Group
2 Bristol Avenue
Colindale
London
United Kingdom
NW9 4EW
GB

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