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About the Role
This role focuses on proactive, relationship-based engagement with adults experiencing multiple and compounding disadvantage, including mental ill-health, substance misuse, trauma, cognitive impairment, executive dysfunction, and insecure immigration status. You will work with a reduced caseload, undertaking assertive outreach alongside statutory assessment, safeguarding, and system leadership.
Responsibilities
- Proactively engage adults who are rough sleeping or at risk of rough sleeping in community and voluntary sector settings.
- Undertake Care Act 2014 assessments, including complex eligibility decision-making.
- Complete Mental Capacity Act (MCA) assessments, including where capacity is fluctuating or impaired.
- Initiate and lead Section 42 safeguarding enquiries where statutory thresholds are met.
- Apply Human Rights Assessments (HRAs), particularly in NRPF and complex immigration cases.
- Work closely with Housing, Public Health, CNWL, NWL, and voluntary sector partners to coordinate responses and prevent entrenchment in rough sleeping.
- Provide professional advice and consultation to voluntary sector colleagues, supporting earlier identification of Care Act needs.
- Contribute to learning from Safeguarding Adult Reviews (SARs) and mortality reviews.
- Maintain clear, defensible recording and analysis, aligned with Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP).
Requirements
- Qualified social worker (Social Work England registered).
- Significant post-qualifying experience in mental health, learning disability, homelessness, or safeguarding.
- Confident applying the Care Act, MCA, safeguarding duties, and human rights frameworks in complex situations.
- Experience of working with people who struggle to engage with traditional services.
- Comfortable working outside office environments and adapting your approach to build trust over time.
- Bring a trauma-informed, strengths-based and anti-discriminatory practice approach.
- Resilient, reflective, and able to work effectively within a small specialist team.
Skills
- Social Work
- Care Act assessments
- Mental Capacity Act (MCA) assessments
- Safeguarding
- Human Rights Assessments (HRAs)
- Assertive outreach
- Trauma-informed practice
- Strengths-based practice
- Anti-discriminatory practice
Location
- Community settings
- Voluntary sector settings
Work Type
- Full-time
- Outreach
Experience Level
- Experienced
- Post-qualifying
Education Level
- Qualified social worker (Social Work England registered)
About the Company
- Innovative, prevention-focused response to rough sleeping and inclusion health.
- Manageable caseloads that allow for meaningful social work.
- Opportunity to shape practice at the interface of safeguarding, homelessness, health and human rights.
- Opportunity to make a tangible impact in reducing harm, crisis and premature mortality.