Overview
Justlife Brighton are excited to announce a new role within our team of Engagement Workers. This role will mainly be based in the community with some work based at the Royal Sussex hospital, identifying rough sleepers attending A & E and support them to engage with services such as street outreach services, rough sleeper accommodation providers and Arch Healthcare, the homeless GP surgery. This role will play a key role in reducing the number of rough sleepers attending A & E.
The role is a 1 year contract (based on Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government current funding) for 12 months, with the possibility of extended funding. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join this team who has experience working with a similar client group, some understanding of the services for homeless people in Brighton & Hove and who demonstrates a commitment to our organisational values.
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Justlife works with the hidden homeless community who live in B&B’s and Guesthouses, and are considered ‘unsupported temporary accommodation’ (UTA). Our vision is to make people’s experience of housing vulnerability as short, safe and healthy as possible.
Based in Higher Openshaw, East Manchester, Justlife currently works across Manchester and Tameside providing re-housing advice, benefits advice and one-to-one key work support to empower vulnerable adults housed in UTA to move towards more secure housing, independent living and improved health and wellbeing. This includes supporting UTA managers and landlords.
The role of Specialist Support Worker involves playing an active part in the Specialist Support Team by taking part in regular outreach visits to UTA’s across Greater Manchester and supporting a caseload of clients that are experiencing varying stages of housing vulnerability.