Post: Lead Practitioner
Service: Renfrewshire Housing & Support Service
Based: Renfrewshire
Hours: Full Time (37 hours per week)
Salary: £25,326 - £28,394
Contract Permanent
Lead the way, in a Career that Cares!
Homelessness and Prevention
Turning Point Scotland is the biggest provider of services to people experiencing or at risk of Homelessness across Scotland, delivering support to around 2000 individuals on any given day, 4500 per year.
We believe that in many cases, Homelessness is entirely preventable. Where Homelessness is not or cannot be, prevented the experience should be brief and non-recurring.
We provide support to people who are;
- Experiencing Homelessness
- At risk of Homelessness; and / or
- Need some support to protect their home
Around two thirds of our work is with people who are experiencing Homelessness.
We believe a menu of options should be available to individuals to prevent, or support someone to move on from Homelessness. This ensures we use a ‘no wrong door’ approach to accessing service and behind this door, people should be met with a ‘Whole System Approach’ to support.
We deliver a range of outreach services including Housing Support (Short and Long Term / Intensive); Housing First and Crisis Support.
Our ambitions are high for those we help; we want everyone to reach their full potential, to become active and valued members of their community, to acquire the life skills and decision-making capabilities to lead a stable productive and fulfilling life. We will challenge, coach and encourage to help achieve this, sometimes involving the peer support of others who have shared similar personal journeys.
We are also active members of the European Federation of National Organisations with the Homeless (FEANTSA) and founding Members of the Housing First Europe Hub.
The service will support service users to achieve housing stability and build the confidence and skills to manage any other challenges in their life’s e.g. problematic alcohol or other drug issues, mental health challenges, involvement in the criminal justice system. A multi-disciplinary approach will be used to ensure you meet service user needs, co-ordinating the support across different parts of the system, ensuring service users are supported to take control of their support.
All the individuals we assist have unique stories, so it's crucial for you to truly comprehend this. They may face a variety of challenges, requiring our support and guidance to empower them on their journey to a better path. Together, you and the team will establish a foundation to help them transition to their permanent residence or support them to sustain their tenancy.
As a Lead Practitioner, you will work with individuals who have a wide range of support needs, providing them with practical and emotional support and encouraging them to achieve their own personal outcomes in all aspects of their daily lives e.g. keeping safe, meaningful activities, community involvement, physical health, relationships, emotional health and wellbeing.
You will be rota’d to work Monday to Friday. Working hours are 9.00am to 5.00pm. This allows you every weekend off!
Please note that IT skills are required for all our vacancies.
Where applicable, successful candidates will be required to register with the SSSC within 6 months of start date.
We value lived experience, please click here to read more about our views.
- Comprehensive Induction
- 123 Learning and development courses
- 29 eLearning courses
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Funded qualification – SVQ Social Services and Healthcare, work based assessment
- Your Career Pathway, we promote from within and advertise internally all jobs
- Pension Scheme, employer contribution 4%
- Wide range of family friendly policies
- 35 holiday/public holidays days' per year.
