Outreach Worker

Job Title: Outreach Worker
Location: Northampton
Duration: Approx. 3 months (with potential extensions)
Hours: Full-time
Agency: Service Care Solutions
Pay rate- £22

Service Care Solutions are recruiting for an Outreach Worker to join a dedicated team in Northampton. This is a full-time role for approximately 3 months, with the possibility of extension.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with individuals experiencing street-based living, including rough sleepers and beggars, to support them into more stable lifestyles.
• Empower service users through increased choice and involvement, working collaboratively to achieve sustainable change and positive outcomes.
• Build on service users’ personal strengths and social networks, both in the UK and in their country of origin.
• Deliver flexible and effective interventions to engage hard-to-reach individuals.
• Conduct outreach shifts at various times and locations to rapidly assist rough sleepers.
• Provide assertive outreach to entrenched rough sleepers, including those initially unwilling to engage.
• Support timely hospital discharges by securing appropriate accommodation for homeless service users.
• Collaborate with drug and alcohol teams to ensure access to treatment for substance misusers.
• Offer advice using recognised models such as Motivational Interviewing to help service users explore and address substance misuse.
• Work with mental health agencies to ensure access to appropriate support.
• Facilitate ongoing healthcare access for service users.
• Experience of working as part of an outreach team
• Experience of working with rough sleepers
• Experience of working in a social care environment
• Experience of working within the substance misuse sector
• Knowledge of local services and geography

Why Choose Service Care Solutions?
We offer dedicated support, competitive rates, and access to a wide range of roles across the UK.

To apply, please send your CV to:
andrew.wiles@servicecare.org.uk