Outreach Practitioner

Are you looking for a sense of purpose in your job? Would you like to support people who have experienced homelessness and addiction?

Being an assertive outreach worker is varied and rewarding work. It also gives invaluable insight into health and social care systems for anyone looking to go into public health and policy work.

The Role

The main purpose of the role is to provide excellent quality/support with strong communication skills as the post holder will be providing care to people who use our services who may be mentally unwell, have experienced trauma and who have struggled to engage with mainstream services., Via Rough Sleepers Projects is an integrated community service which offers Intensive Recovery Outreach and Dedicated Support to Rough Sleepers in Camden & Islington. The project provides coordinated and wrap around care to rough sleepers/street active individuals with substance misuse issues.

Applicants will be able to work flexible working pattens with partner agencies, to give the best possible care.

Direct experience in substance misuse is not mandatory, although the applicant must be able to learn on the job and be willing to undertake training.

Language skills in Romanian, Lithuanian or Russian are not mandatory but would be desierable.

We only accept applications via http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/career-paths/ using our application form, sorry we don't accept CVs. For guidance on how to complete the application visit http://www.viaorg.uk/work-at-via/how-to-apply/. Please submit your application as soon as possible as we may close adverts at any time if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

Via welcomes enquiries from everyone, and we value diversity in our workplace. Our commitment to promoting diversity and developing a workplace environment where all staff are treated with dignity and respect is central to our recruitment process.

We're a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. We offer an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for our jobs, please confirm in the personal statement part of our application form that you are applying under this scheme.

Appointment to all our posts are subject to satisfactory completion of our safeguarding checks including DBS and we follow safer recruiting principles

Your working hours will be varied from 9am - 5pm, and early mornings 6am - 2pm and evening 2pm - 8pm.

To see the generous range of benefits we offer at Via including 30 days annual leave for all new starters, our health and wellbeing initiatives, financial perks and development opportunities - visit our Benefits Package