Hospital and Housing Link Worker Adult Social Care
| Posting date: | 13 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £41,873.00 to £47,238.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £41873.00 - £47238.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 December 2025 |
| Location: | Slough, SL2 4HL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | F0075-VB1441675Wex |
Summary
To work collaboratively with colleagues, partner agencies and voluntary sector and contribute to the effective delivery of the integrated preventative service across housing, health and social care to achieve successful outcomes and reduce the need for statutory interventions. Adopt a specialist lead role for Slough residents supporting people complex lives to be safely discharged from local hospital and healthcare settings and support back into the community. Work flexibly to meet service needs and the needs of residents, providing practical, support and assistance to enable safe and timely discharges from hospital to appropriate accommodation. Ensure community-based support is in place to prevent repeat and inappropriate admissions to acute health care services and facilitate access to lower-level preventative services. Work in a person-centred way, carrying out holistic assessments and investigations to identify housing, health, social care, financial and employment needs and work in collaboration with other agencies to ensure those needs are met. Coach and empower individuals to increase their ability to gain and maintain their independence. Think creatively and decisively to find and implement bespoke solutions across services who have conflicting agendas to prevent and resolve homelessness and prevent escalation of need. Devise, monitor and review holistic personalised plans to achieve successful housing, health and social care preventative outcomes. Adopt a casework-based approach while working with competing priorities in a changeable environment, ensuring targets and service objectives are met. Record, monitor and track clients, ensuring relevant systems are kept up to date with concise, accurate, evidence-based records, identifying and recording risk issues to minimise risks to themselves and to others. Keep up to date with key legislation, policies and procedures, in the areas of homelessness and eligibility for housing and homelessness assistance, and the councils statutory duties in relation to housing, health and care needs, to ensure high quality, timely and accurate decision making. Maintain up to date service information and proactively build professional relationships with other professionals, making referrals to internal departments, external agencies and other local authorities and proactively following up to ensure referrals are acted on. Cover for other staff across the service as required and undertake other duties commensurate with the purpose of the post.