Outreach Officer

Main responsibilities

• To undertake assertive outreach and hot spot visits across the Borough, maintaining a regular street presence over 365 days a year.
• Identify, engage and proactively work with people sleeping rough within Great Yarmouth.
• Carry out needs assessments with identified rough sleepers to secure access to services for their immediate and long-term needs, by making appropriate referrals in partnership with clients, to establish a sustainable pathway from the streets. Ensuring all packages of support are person-centred.
• Provide light touch support to Previous Rough Sleepers in settled accommodation for a maximum of 6 months.
• Reducing street sleeping within the Borough of Great Yarmouth

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about resolving rough sleeping and can provide a person-centred approach to engage and remove obstacles that prevent clients from leaving the streets.

The role will require unsociable hours and working on shift basis to ensure a comprehensive outreach service is available.

Being passionate about tackling rough sleeping you will have the ability and experience to work with individuals who have identified needs including offending behaviour, substance misuse problems, mental health issues and other vulnerabilities. Working closely with the Rough Sleeper Team.

This is an exciting opportunity and a great time to join us, and playing an important part of the Great Yarmouth Borough Councils resolve to end Rough Sleeping

If you feel you have the personal qualities and attributes to compliment this role, as well as the ability to work unsocial hours, please demonstrate how you meet the Job Description and Person Specification in your application form, and we look forward to reading it.

If you wish to have an informal chat about the role please call Caroline Glibbery on 01493 846544.

Great Yarmouth Borough Council has the goal to achieve excellence for the Borough. We don’t just say we are ambitious; we mean it. We are always looking at the ways in which we can improve and be the best that we can, providing the best for the people who live, work, visit and operate businesses in the Borough.

We have big plans for the future and massive opportunities ahead. We are one of the most successful enterprise zones in the country, Great Yarmouth is England’s offshore energy hub and Norfolk’s biggest seaside resort at the edge of the Broads National Park. The challenges we face in the borough are wide, but our commitment to achieving more has never been so focused.

We know that our team members are our most valuable asset, working hard to achieve our short and long term goals. Find out more about the people who work with us, and if you are as ambitious as we are, apply now and be part of our team.

We offer a range of exciting benefits as an employer and are committed to a policy of equal opportunity in employment and the services we provide.

There is more information on the Jobs page of the Great Yarmouth Borough Website, with details of how to apply and the recruitment process. You will also be able to find more details regarding DBS checks (if relevant for the job role), Right to Work checks, along with details of our values and behaviours, agile working and our Privacy Notice.