Housing First Support Worker

Location: Romford, United Kingdom; support is delivered in clients' independent tenancies in the community.

Salary: £31,611–£33,987 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a local authority serving residents and vulnerable adults in Havering, London.

What you will do

• Deliver intensive, wrap-around, trauma-informed support to people experiencing homelessness and multiple disadvantage.
• Maintain accurate case-management records covering support plans, safety plans, progress, and outcomes.
• Review person-centred support plans and monitor progress across an assigned caseload.
• Liaise with adult social care, criminal justice, health, employment, and training agencies to coordinate support.
• Build professional networks to promote the Housing First pilot and advocate for its clients.
• Participate in evening, weekend, and bank holiday rota duties and provide temporary colleague cover.

Requirements

• Significant experience supporting people affected by homelessness, substance misuse, mental or physical ill health, and offending behaviour.
• Experience liaising effectively with social, health, housing, and criminal justice agencies.
• Experience writing client records, completing monitoring materials, and contributing to project evaluation.
• Understanding of risk and needs assessment, support planning, goal setting, review processes, and service quality.
• Ability to engage people who have low interaction with or suspicion of services, using empathy and a trauma-informed approach.
• Strong relationship-building, advocacy, problem-solving, flexibility, and resilience when working with challenging situations.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within a local strategy to end long-term rough sleeping.
• Collaborate across health, social care, housing, criminal justice, employment, and training services.
• Fixed-term contract ending 31 March 2027, with potential for extension.
• Anonymised recruitment process focused on the merits of each application.
• A DBS check may be required because the role involves safeguarding vulnerable adults.

Hiring process

• Submit a supporting statement of no more than two A4 pages explaining how the criteria are met.
• Applications close on 15 September 2026, subject to possible early closure.
• Interview date to be confirmed; successful applicants will be notified.