Assertive Outreach Support and Intervention Practitioner

Expiring today

Location
Penmaen, Blackwood
Salary
£25,750
Posted
22 Jan 2025
Closes
07 Feb 2025
Contract type
Fixed Term

GDAS are recruiting for roles to join our Assertive Outreach Team funded by the Housing Support Grant.

The Assertive Outreach Team seeks to achieve the objectives set out in The Welsh Government’s Substance Use Delivery Plan including:

  • Ensure services commissioned to support co-occurring cases are aligned and working in partnership with housing and homelessness services.
  • Seek to co-locate services with local authority homelessness teams where appropriate, in order to provide a more person-centred service to those who are either homeless or at threat of homelessness.
  • In order to adopt a preventative approach, develop protocols with social housing and private sector landlords to help identify tenants who may be in need of substance misuse services.
  • Develop referral pathways between rough sleeping outreach teams and local authority homelessness teams to residential rehabilitation units. This should include referral pathways from Housing First projects.
  • To work with partners to ensure services are accessible for all and that outreach services are available to those who are isolated due to their substance misuse issues, particularly older people.
  • The AO team provides the support needed to prevent people with substance use and other complexities from becoming homeless, stabilising their housing situation, or helps potentially homeless people to find and keep accommodation. It supports vulnerable people to address multiple complex needs such as debt, employment, tenancy management, substance use violence against women, domestic abuse and sexual violence and mental health related issues.
  • Support is person centred, aimed at supporting people to secure and maintain sustainable housing by addressing the mental health and substance misuse or other problems they face, helping to improve their health and well-being and/or helping them progress into, or nearer to, a job or training opportunity based on their specific circumstances.
  • The AO team provides rapid, flexible and responsive approaches to engage and support this cohort, including the offer of support at times and venues that is favourable for the individual, increasing the capacity and ability of individuals or households to prevent homelessness, maintain a home or enabling access to suitable housing for individuals or households.
  • One of our central functions as a team is to broker access to other services for people in housing need, navigating systems and advocating assertively where there are barriers to accessor support.