Housing and Health Link Worker

We’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Service which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. You will be a frontline professional delivering a first class, modern and flexible service to some of the most vulnerable people in the Borough.

You will contribute to the effective delivery of the integrated preventative service across housing, health and social care, providing a proactive, accessible, efficient and effective front-line service; promote access to preventative services, working proactively to ensure services are accessed in a timely way.

Key responsibilities:

• Work proactively to prevent and resolve crisis and prevent the loss of accommodation while preventing the escalation of health care needs.
• Work collaboratively to facilitate discharges from health care settings, enable access to lower level preventative services and prevent repeat and avoidable admissions to acute health care services.
• Maintain a regular on-site presence at local hospital settings, ordinarily attending hospital sites at least two days per week, working closely with NHS partners to support timely hospital discharge, prevent homelessness and improve outcomes for residents.
• Adopt a casework-based approach to complete detailed holistic assessments of housing, health and social care needs, providing practical interventions and support.
• Maintain an ongoing knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation and the Council’s statutory duties in relation to housing, health and care needs, ensuring advice given is accurate at all times and provide tailored solutions to meet identified needs.

Requirements:

• Extensive knowledge and experience of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended) and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary working involving complex and diverse client groups.
• Great communicator to engage effectively with a broad range of people.
• Ability to work independently, proactively and flexibly.

Benefits:

• Access to a range of employee benefits.

Salary: GBP 41,511 - 45,123 per year