Housing Support Worker
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £30,559.00 i £32,654.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £30559.00 - £32654.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 20 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Salisbury, SP2 7NP |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | F0041-5115 |
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Specific duties and responsibilities include: To offer advice and support to tenants with regard to Homes4Wiltshire and the choice based lettings procedure. To make applications for Personal Independence Payments for appropriate tenants. To represent tenants at DWP (Department of Work and Pensions) Tribunals. Compiling written reports based on evidence from tenants, medical practitioners and own observations. To maintain an up to date knowledge of all changes to health and social care legislation and welfare benefits e.g. attending Dementia Care Conference To encourage Team staff to look after their own mental wellbeing. To run regular workshops to support Team staff to manage change and stress and develop their understanding of mental health issues. To run a tenant self-help support group. Sending out monthly invitations, analysing evaluation forms, organising speakers. To instigate care from the Community Mental Health Team (CMHT) and /or GP when a tenant is seen to be at risk. Instigating the formal assessment process by written or verbal reports. To provide short term practical advice and assistance to mental health tenants for setting up home (i.e. arranging finance, furniture, setting up utilities). To liaise with statutory and non-statutory agencies in the provision of support to applicants and tenants before and after the take-up of any public tenancy. To be aware of care plans and care co-ordinators of particularly vulnerable tenants and prospective tenants who are known to the Mental Health Services. To ensure that tenants and other agencies are able to understand the implications of a Tenancy Agreement, the responsibilities and consequences of non-compliance. To offer advice and support to housing applicants and tenants in their dealings with statutory and voluntary agencies over such matters as their welfare rights. To act as a point of contact between statutory agencies when an existing tenant may be thought of as possibly having a mental illness which is resulting in disruptive behaviour, such as in neighbour disputes. To ensure that the Council is actively represented on conferences where an individual's care plans are to be agreed. To supplement, and not to replace, any statutory agency support. To participate in community care training and accreditation to enable the post-holder to participate fully in decisions on individual care plan conferences. To maintain a list of all clients dealt with and record their occupancy data. The post holder directs and monitors all queries relating to mental health issues and is solely responsible for running the Housing Team staff workshops and tenant support group. On a daily basis the post holder is presented with problems which are complex and not at all straightforward to resolve. This may mean that a multi-disciplinary approach is called for or perhaps a more creative interpretation of policies. The post holder is expected to resolve issues without discussion with others in an often changing environment. The post holder is frequently required to make ad hoc decisions, especially when visiting unwell tenants at home. Considerable skill and knowledge is needed to make an appropriate decision about when to leave somebody alone to recover and when it is best to call in other agencies, even when this may be against the tenants will. Informed judgement is used on a daily basis to decide what may be in a persons best interests.