North Northamptonshire Council
Senior Street Outreach Worker
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About The Role
Leading outreach, building partnerships, changing lives.
Are you passionate about tackling homelessness and making a lasting difference to people's lives?
As a Senior Street Outreach Worker, you will play a key role in leading and coordinating outreach activity across North Northamptonshire, ensuring people sleeping rough receive timely, effective and person-centred support.
Working within the Single Homelessness Service, you will build strong partnerships with housing, health, social care and voluntary sector organisations to help prevent and relieve homelessness. Supporting the Rough Sleeping Services Team Leader, you will help drive initiatives that make rough sleeping rare, brief and non-recurring, while providing practical support and guidance to some of the most vulnerable people in our communities.
This is a rewarding opportunity to lead by example, coordinate impactful outreach services and help create positive outcomes for individuals at risk of homelessness across North Northamptonshire.
What will you be doing?
As a Senior Street Outreach Worker, you will:
- Lead, support and supervise Street Outreach Workers to deliver a high-quality outreach service.
- Coordinate outreach activities to identify and engage people sleeping rough and ensure timely interventions.
- Provide guidance and support on complex cases, crisis situations and safeguarding concerns.
- Work with partners across housing, health, social care and voluntary services to deliver coordinated support.
- Lead on complex case management and represent the service at multi-agency meetings.
- Support individuals to access accommodation, healthcare, substance misuse services, welfare support and other essential services.
- Help former rough sleepers sustain accommodation and reduce the risk of repeat homelessness.
- Monitor service performance, maintain accurate records and support budget management.
- Assist with the development and improvement of services, partnerships and local support networks.
- Support the delivery of rough sleeper counts, Severe Weather Emergency Protocol (SWEP) responses and other homelessness initiatives.
- Deputise for the Rough Sleeping Services Team Leader when required and support the day-to-day operation of the service.
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About You
- Hold a minimum of 5 GCSE’s grade A-C and a relevant housing qualification (CIH Level 4 Diploma or equivalent) or show an equivalent capability.
- Demonstrable experience at a senior officer level (or similar) within a local authority, housing association or voluntary organisation.
- Experience of working with people who have experience of rough sleeping.
- Experience of delivering street outreach services.
- Experience of managing a caseload and producing risk assessments, needs assessments and support plans.
- Experience of handling complex cases and providing solutions for vulnerable individuals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to form and develop professional and effective working relationships with colleagues, partners and service users and work effectively and enthusiastically as part of a team.
- Ability to coordinate and lead on multi-agency responses to complex cases to achieve a positive outcome.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate.
- Good analytical skills and ability to produce and interpret statistical information.
- Excellent listening and interviewing skills, with a proven ability to inspire and motivate people to improve themselves and/or others.
- A skilled problem-solver and negotiator with the ability to develop practical and creative housing solutions with an organised and imaginative approach to work and the ability to manage difficult and sensitive situations.
- Effectively work with others to achieve a positive outcome by being proactive and solution focused.
- Full driving licence and access to own transport for work purposes.
- Willing to work outside normal office hours on a regular basis to undertake street outreach sessions.
- This post will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.
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- A competitive salary.
- A pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- Lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council.
- Generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days.
- Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About Us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our Values Define Who We Are And How We Operate, By Forming The Foundation For How We Interact With Our Customers, Colleagues And Provide Our Services. They Are Also At The Forefront Of Our Decision Making And Delivery And Are
- Customer-focused
- Respectful
- Efficient
- Supportive
- Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
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Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council
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- Senior Street Outreach Worker JDPS August 2026.docx
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