Outreach Practitioner
| Posting date: | 10 April 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £29,124 to £32,946 per year |
| Additional salary information: | including London Weighting where appropriate |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2025 |
| Location: | Camden, North West London |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Via |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JOB0125 |
Summary
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.
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 desirable.
The Service
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.
The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox.
Location and hours
Islington and Camden
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
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal discussion about the position please contact Patricia Ballard, Team Manager on 0300 303 4545 or Patricia.Ballard@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 4 May at midnight. The interview date is Thursday 15 May.
Interviews may be in person of via Teams.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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.
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 desirable.
The Service
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.
The service consists of both clinical and psychosocial elements and is CQC registered to provide a range of interventions including BBV and health interventions, OST, and community detox.
Location and hours
Islington and Camden
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
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Via we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For an informal discussion about the position please contact Patricia Ballard, Team Manager on 0300 303 4545 or Patricia.Ballard@viaorg.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 4 May at midnight. The interview date is Thursday 15 May.
Interviews may be in person of via Teams.
All our applications are sifted by humans. Please send us applications that reflect your own knowledge, experience and values and not applications that have been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
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