Job title: Adult Lead Worker
Reporting to: Adult Lead Worker Service Lead
Contract: Permanent
Location: 48-52 Allcock Street, Birmingham B9 4DY
Hours: 35 hours per week
Salary: £24,114
Date last updated: October 2024
Who are we?
We are SIFA Fireside, the support service for any adult in Birmingham that faces homelessness. For 40 years we have supported Birmingham’s most vulnerable people through Homelessness Intervention, Prevention and Recovery services.
Overall purpose of job
The Adult Lead Worker service is based at our main hub in Digbeth but provides city-wide support to adults experiencing multiple disadvantages. This service provides flexible, strengths-based advice and support to people aged 18 years plus who experience two or more of substance use, poor mental health, history of repeat homelessness and offending history. Clients may also be serially excluded from services or be at risk of exclusion from mainstream services.
This is a targeted service that aims to build resilience, improve health and wellbeing and move people towards independent living at an early stage, in order to prevent or delay the need for crisis interventions.
The Lead Workers will also act as a community navigator linking the client into local services and activities, ensuring access to and receipt of necessary care and support that will vary for each client.
Key tasks (selection of)
1. To ensure that the service operates in a strength-based way, taking a flexible and psychologically informed approach to support.
2. To ensure that clients are provided with choice and meaningful involvement in decisions about how they receive support, and in identifying and setting goals as agreed with them.
3. To work proactively to reduce barriers and support clients to access services, including for on-going health, mental health and substance use treatment / services.
4. Manage an active caseload of clients, keeping effective and up to date records and monitoring outcomes through our CRM database system.
5. To work in partnership with other agencies to ensure that clients receive a coordinated service e.g. substance misuse services, DWP, GP’s, pharmacies.
For the full list of Key Tasks, Managerial Responsibilities and Requirements, please see the Job description and Person Spec below.
To apply, please download and complete the application form below and return it along with the Equality and Diversity Monitoring form to recruitment@sifafireside.co.uk. Closing date: 9am Friday 10th January 2025.
If you have not received a response within a week of the closing date, unfortunately your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Due to the number of applicants we receive, we are unable to respond to unsuccessful candidates.
Click here to download the Job Description
Click here to download the Personal Specification
Click here to download the Application Form
Click here to download the Equality and Diversity Monitoring Form
