Keyworker - Rough Sleepers Accommodation Programme, Liverpool Liverpool, England
Job description
Who we are:
Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 35,000 homes across the North West and East Midlands.
We provide quality; low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our residents thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.
About the department:
At Jigsaw Support our focus is on helping people to live happy, healthy lives in a safe home and supporting our most vulnerable individuals is our top priority.
Working within the Jigsaw Support Team you will be part of an innovative, forward thinking team that encourages success.
We are passionate about improving the quality of lives of our customers by supporting them to achieve their goals and independence.
In addition to delivering our existing support services, we are always seeking new innovative partnerships, solutions and funding opportunities, responding to need and working with communities in which we can make a difference.
With more than 200 staff from offices in Ashton under Lyne, Leigh and in our supported accommodation projects across the North West, we support over 7,000 people annually through the contracts we manage.
This position is within our support services for Rough Sleeps Accommodation Programme
The programme will provides intensive wrap around support to people with experience of rough sleeping, that have complex and multiple needs, to enable them to live as independently as possible and gain the skills and confidence to sustain a tenancy and live a fulfilling life. Service Users will be accommodated in self contained properties dispersed throughout the City region for up to two years and supported to move on to more permanent accommodation.
Role Information:
*The role is Full Time, Fixed Term until 31st March 2024 (with the potential for a further 3 years funding subject to contract performance/ funding)*
The Keyworker will work across shifts to cover the service from 8am-8pm, including some weekends and bank holidays. They will carry a small caseload and offer intensive person centered, wrap around support to address any barriers to tenancy sustainment and move on to permanent accommodation. These barriers could include substance use, mental and physical health difficulties, offending, domestic abuse, debt and money management issues.
You will need to be aware of the principles of trauma informed care, and be able to work in a strengths based way, building on the person’s strengths and linking them to community assets in order to aid community integration.
This is a highly rewarding role, that enables you to make a make a real difference to people’s lives.
Jigsaw Benefits:
You will be rewarded with not only knowing that you have helped change people’s lives, but also with some great benefits.
You will also get:
- 27 working days holiday per annum (rising with extended service and additional leave given for the Christmas closure),
- occupational sick pay,
- access to gym facilities at our main offices,
- access to the Social Housing Pension Scheme,
- Simply Health membership, unlimited 24/7 online GP appointments and mental health support. Plus fast money back towards face-to-face health appointments and more
- enhanced maternity/paternity leave,
- Training/development opportunities.
- 50% of your time working from home upon completion of a satisfactory probation period.
Provisional date for interviews is Thursday 16th February 2023
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of CV’s
