Housing and Recovery Support Worker

At Hope and Vision Communities we want everyone to have access to a home and support post rehabilitation.  We create a lived experince community of absitance based living for residents to continue their journey of recovery in fellowship,

We provide 17 spaces across 8 properties with 1-1 key working support and community activities, with a training and employment project underway to assist residents transition successfully in to indendant living when they feel ready to do so.

Hope and Vision Communities has a Christian Ethos.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB:

• To support residents to maintain and continue their recovery from drug and/or alcohol problems.
• To support residents to engage in positive activities (volunteering, work or education) to underpin their recovery.
• To manage the maintenance, upkeep, and management of all properties.

Main Outcomes

Residents remain substance free and in recovery. 

• Overseeing incoming referrals to obtain new residents.
• Undertaking drug and alcohol testing.
• Providing advice/signpost residents to additional recovery support and other issues such as housing, health, benefits, and finance.
• Assisting residents in times of crisis, offering them advice and support as appropriate.
• Developing the quality and effectiveness of the service, including utilising service user feedback.
• Attending training as appropriate and/or necessary.

Residents follow care plans and comply with licence agreements so that they grow in self-worth, self-confidence, and resilience. 

• Undertake weekly keywork sessions, tracking individualised goals as agreed on care plan.
• Co-facilitating groupwork.
• Monitoring the adherence to property and programme rules and helping to develop a healthy resident community.
• Keeping care plans and files up to date.
• Offering a high level of care and support to all, always maintaining appropriate professional conduct and boundaries.

The properties are kept to a high standard of repair and meet all legal and Landlord requirements.

• Through key working residents and regular visits and checks. Identify issues that would need resolving with the properties.
• Maintain relationships with Landlords to address their needs and repairs required.
• Arrange trades to deal with maintenance issues and make repairs

Working conditions (e.g., hours of work, any travelling required etc):

• Full Time (40 hours) per week, 12 month contract with a view to be made permanent.
• 25 days annual leave per year pro-rata, plus bank holidays.
• Reporting to Head of Key Working.
• You will be expected to travel to see residents (and employers, voluntary placements, etc) within the local area as part of your role.  Full driving license, vehicle and relevant insurance required.
• Pension in line with government auto-enrolment legislation