Job Title: Homeless Support Worker
Salary: £30,960
This is a job working for Ongo, with time spent in Doncaster and Scunthorpe. You must be a driver with your own vehicle.
Job Summary
Homeless Support Worker, provides a person-led, trauma-informed support to individuals experiencing homelessness. Develop tailored support plans, manage tenancies, respond to safeguarding and anti-social behaviour concerns, and coordinate multi-agency support. Promote financial inclusion, ensure property standards, and engage customers to shape and improve services.
Main Responsibilities
- Deliver person-centred, trauma-informed support by developing, reviewing, and monitoring individual support plans tailored to each customer’s needs, promoting independence, wellbeing, and positive outcomes.
- Manage tenancies and licence agreements through oversight of sign-ups, terminations, rent arrears, and breaches, ensuring customers understand their rights and responsibilities and receive appropriate guidance.
- Investigate and respond to anti-social behaviour (ASB) by addressing reports of harassment, cuckooing, and drug-related activity. Liaise with residents, gather evidence, assess risk, and work with police and partners to implement joint action plans. Prepare legal documentation when required.
- Lead safeguarding and risk management by identifying and responding to safeguarding concerns, making appropriate referrals, following protocols, and contributing to coordinated risk management planning.
- Coordinate multi-agency support by working collaboratively with external agencies to ensure holistic, joined-up support for customers, and actively participating in partnership meetings to support integrated service delivery.
- Manage referrals, allocations, and voids by assessing eligibility, allocating properties fairly, minimising void periods, and maintaining accurate records while liaising with applicants and stakeholders throughout the process.
- Promote financial inclusion and income maximisation by supporting customers with budgeting, benefits, charitable grants, and financial risk management to help sustain tenancies and reduce poverty.
- Ensure property standards and compliance through regular inspections of properties and communal areas, reporting and following up on repairs, environmental issues, and PAT testing. Maintain high standards and ensure health & safety compliance.
- Champion customer voice and engagement by facilitating house meetings, consultations, and feedback opportunities, responding to complaints professionally, and using customer insight to shape and improve services.
- Support service-related projects and performance monitoring by assisting in the delivery of service-related projects, supporting the Project Lead in achieving objectives, maintaining accurate records using internal CRM systems, and contributing to performance reporting, service development, and policy reviews.
Skills, Competence, Experience Required
- Experience supporting vulnerable groups (e.g. Homeless, ex-offenders)
- Skilled in person-centred, trauma-informed support planning
- Strong safeguarding knowledge and MDT coordination
- Understanding of tenancy management, housing law, and ASB procedures
- Ability to investigate ASB and prepare legal documentation
- Confident in multi-agency working and partnership collaboration
- Knowledge of welfare benefits, budgeting, and financial inclusion
- Effective communication, negotiation, and advocacy skills
- Proficient in CRM systems and accurate case recording
- Strong IT, literacy, and numeracy skills
- Awareness of property standards, health & safety, and compliance
- Customer-focused with a commitment to inclusion and engagement
- Capable of managing complaints and using feedback constructively
- Organised, self-motivated, and able to manage a varied caseload
- Experience supporting service-related projects and project leads
- Subject to annual enhanced DBS check
Closing date for applications 9 August
Interviews will be held 20 & 21 August
We want our organisation to reflect the communities we serve, and we actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, particularly those from groups currently under‑represented in our workforce.
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