Hospital Outreach Worker

at  West Northamptonshire Council

About the role
This is an exciting time to join our rough sleepers’ team! Following the creation of West Northants Council in 2021, we are on a journey of shaping what the new rough sleepers service looks like. West Northants is a great place to work, with a focus on career development, wellbeing, flexibility, and support. This is an opportunity for you to take the next step on your career journey in a supportive environment.
We can also facilitate part time hours.
What will you be doing?
To provide a high quality, outcome-focused support to rough sleepers who have complex needs and require a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary approach to their housing, health, and wellbeing. To work collaboratively and imaginatively with other services to develop and implement multi-agency support to recovery, and resettlement.
To help and prevent delay in Hospital discharges and assisting to housing solutions to enable patience to be discharged into accommodation, that suits their needs, ensuring effective coordination and communication with housing teams and partnerships.
About you
You don’t need experience across all aspects of the job as that will form part of your development journey, but you will need to be outcome- focused and experience working with complex needs and require a co-ordinated, multi-disciplinary approach to their housing, health, and wellbeing.
To build relationships and knowledge across the housing and health sectors to help support people to remain in their own home, in particular to work in partnership with partners in the health sector to prevent homelessness and promote timely and safe discharge into suitable accommodation among patients leaving acute and community hospitals.
You’ll need to have a solution driven and adaptable approach to working, thrive in a busy environment with a positive approach to challenges! Ideally you will have previous experience of working with multi agency services with experience of working with people with behavioural, physical, social and welfare needs.
About us
At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.
Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services.
Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it’s like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU
We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential. We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner
The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.
If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.

WEST NORTHANTS COUNCIL, WHERE CAREERS THRIVE.

Our benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, these include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days annual leave per year, 29 days for senior managers (pro rata, depending on how many hours per week you work), plus bank holidays. An additional 5 days, linked to continuous service, and ability to purchase up to 6 weeks additional leave per year.
• Cycle to Work scheme.
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• Car Lease scheme
• Payment of professional subscription / membership - If your job description requires that you are registered with or are a member of a professional body, WNC will pay for your professional subscription or membership fees.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A variety of flexible working options to support your work/life balance, including full or part time, term time, 9-day fortnight, etc. (subject to business needs).
• Our West Ways of Working – We want our workforce to thrive, and we equip our employees with the right technology to support hybrid and collaborative working, on or off site, depending on the role.
• Making a difference - If you want to use your skills and experience with an organisation that are genuinely invested in making a difference, are committed to improving people’s lives, and whose success has a direct impact on the wellbeing of your family, friends and people in your local area, then West Northamptonshire Council is the place for you.

Please refer the Job description for details