Job Introduction
Join Our Team as an Early Help Homelessness Prevention Worker!
Position: Early Help Homelessness Prevention Worker
Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch, and Poole (BCP)
Department: Housing / Inclusion and Family Services / Early Help
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of families and young people? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where your skills can truly shine? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you!
Role Overview:
As an Early Help Homelessness Prevention Worker, you'll be at the forefront of delivering high-quality support and intervention services to families. Your mission? To safeguard and promote the well-being of children and young people, while building parental capacity, strengths, and resilience to reduce the risk of homelessness.
Key Responsibilities:
- Preventing Homelessness: Be a hero in early intervention! Identify at-risk families and provide tailored support to address their specific needs, ensuring they have the resources to thrive.
- Collaboration: Work alongside children, young people, families, and partner agencies, often taking the lead to coordinate efforts and achieve the best outcomes.
- Strengths-Based Approach: Use your expertise to assess and create timely, focused plans that lead to positive and sustainable outcomes. Your work will empower families to build on their strengths.
- Casework: Dive into robust casework with children, young people, and families, providing the support they need to overcome challenges and succeed.
- Professional Relationships: Build and maintain high-quality professional relationships with other agencies and services, fostering a network of support.
- Peripatetic Work: Embrace the flexibility of working peripatetically across BCP. You'll be based in one of the Locality Family Support Teams but will respond to demand for specific housing support across teams.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Your role will directly contribute to preventing homelessness and improving the lives of families in our community.
- Collaborative Environment: Work with a dedicated team of professionals who share your passion for making a difference.
- Growth Opportunities: We support your professional development and offer opportunities for growth within our organization.
Job Requirements
- Enhanced DBS check.
- Ability to travel across the BCP area using public or other forms of transport where they are viable, or by holding a valid UK driving licence with access to own or pool car.
Ready to embark on a rewarding journey with us? Apply now and be part of a team that's committed to creating positive change!
For an informal discussion about this post please contact Kerry Payne on 01202 118476 or kerry.payne@bcpcouncil.gov.uk or Nikki Dilke on 01202 128791 or nikki.dilke@bcpcouncil.gov.uk
This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English is an essential requirement for the role.
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package for further details see here
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
DBS
BCP Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the community and expects all staff and volunteers to share the same commitment. Applicants to this post will be required to complete the appropriate level of Disclosure & Barring Service Check. Please refer to the Job Description or Role Profile for more details.
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