Job overview

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated community support worker to support street homeless individuals in accessing essential services and moving towards sustainable, independent living. The role involves conducting outreach sessions, providing referrals, and working closely with multi-agency partners to promote mental health, physical health, and substance misuse support. You will undertake regular needs assessments, create tailored support plans, and deliver therapeutic interventions to improve service users’ well-being and quality of life.

Key responsibilities include supporting individuals in their recovery journey, promoting social inclusion, and ensuring they access necessary health services and community resources. You will also engage in safeguarding practices, contribute to multi-disciplinary meetings, and maintain accurate records while ensuring the equality, diversity, and rights of all service users are respected.

 You will work collaboratively with service users, carers, and colleagues to achieve sustained outcomes, support independence, and help individuals integrate back into the community.

Main duties of the job

• As an Outreach Practitioner you will support people who are street homeless to increase access to mental health, physical health, substance misuse support, to sustain accommodation and ultimately move into settled accommodation. 
• Undertake outreach sessions, including referral agencies and other stakeholders to publicise the service, receive referrals and give signposting advice. To attend any relevant multi agency meetings as required.
• Undertake regular needs assessments and develop comprehensive support / risk plans to identify how individual service user needs will be met in order to help each service user live independently within the community and achieve sustained outcomes.
• Undertake physical health assessments including weight, height, blood pressure.
• Support Service Users to live independently within the community and achieve sustained recovery by supporting Service Users to achieve economic wellbeing, participate in education, training or other learning activities, develop or sustain a healthy and safe lifestyle and make a positive contribution to society

Working for our organisation

We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1.    We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2.    With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all

3.    We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4.    We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

·       Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme
• We have excellent internal staff network support groups.