Job summary
Join Our Team as a Housing Lead at the Urgent Care Hub!
The Urgent Care Hub, part of the Home Treatment Service, plays a crucial role in supporting admissions, discharges, and bed flow for mental health beds within Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. We are seeking a dedicated Housing Lead to provide active housing case management for individuals with mental health needs using inpatient, rehab, and step-up/step-down services to secure a housing and/or support option that will facilitate discharge.
Why Join Us?
This is your opportunity to make a significant impact on the lives of individuals with mental health needs by ensuring they have secure housing options. If you are passionate about mental health and dedicated to preventing homelessness, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As the Housing Lead, you'll support the discharge and recovery of people with mental health needs, by helping to secure suitable housing options for them. You'll help to prevent homelessness whenever possible by providing information, advice, advocacy and support services to people with mental health needs who are currently in inpatient facilities, and their families and carers.
Collaborating with other members of the Urgent Care Hub and staff from local district councils within Somerset, you will help sustain or secure housing options during hospital admissions or other crises.
Your role will also include supporting core functions of bed management, making you an integral part of the Urgent Care Hub team.
About us
As an organisation, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust offers employees a wide range of benefits including flexible working, NHS pension scheme, generous annual leave allowance and a commitment to career development.You will be eligible for our Blue Light Card and a wide range of NHS exclusive shopping & leisure discounts.We are proud of our skilled, diverse workforce and as an inclusive employer we welcome applications from all backgrounds.Working in Somerset enables you to enjoy the idyllic countryside, areas of outstanding beauty and stunning coastlines whilst still only being a stone's throw away from bustling city centres like Bristol, Bath and Exeter and only two hours away from London.There are excellent educational facilities in the area and, when compared to other regions, house prices are reasonable.Somerset offers the countryside and the cosmopolitan -- there is truly something for everyone!
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for more information.
- To provide active housing case management for people with mental health needs who use inpatient, rehab and step up/down services to secure a housing and/or support option that will facilitate discharge and work closely with the local authority housing team to ensure all options are considered with a view to homelessness prevention.
- To provide an information, advice, advocacy, and support service to people with mental health needs and their families and carers, who are currently in inpatient facilities and require support in establishing options. To prevent homelessness whenever possible.
- To provide support to resolve complex housing/tenancy issues or that sustain current tenancies that prevent the discharge of a service user from an inpatient or step up/down facility provided, managed or commissioned by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
- To work proactively with mental health professionals. To aim to avoid hospital admission wherever possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for more information.
- To provide active housing case management for people with mental health needs who use inpatient, rehab and step up/down services to secure a housing and/or support option that will facilitate discharge and work closely with the local authority housing team to ensure all options are considered with a view to homelessness prevention.
- To provide an information, advice, advocacy, and support service to people with mental health needs and their families and carers, who are currently in inpatient facilities and require support in establishing options. To prevent homelessness whenever possible.
- To provide support to resolve complex housing/tenancy issues or that sustain current tenancies that prevent the discharge of a service user from an inpatient or step up/down facility provided, managed or commissioned by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust.
- To work proactively with mental health professionals. To aim to avoid hospital admission wherever possible.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE qualification in English and Maths
Desirable
- CIH Level 3 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a homelessness service.
- Experience of information / advice work
- Experience of working with the public, face to face and on the telephone.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Understand the needs of and the issues facing people with mental health needs
- Knowledge of housing options for people with mental health needs
- Hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car to travel
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE qualification in English and Maths
Desirable
- CIH Level 3 or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- Experience working in a homelessness service.
- Experience of information / advice work
- Experience of working with the public, face to face and on the telephone.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Understand the needs of and the issues facing people with mental health needs
- Knowledge of housing options for people with mental health needs
- Hold a full UK driving license and have access to a car to travel
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
