Help Change Lives & Empower Vulnerable Adults Towards Independent Living
Are you passionate about helping people rebuild their lives? Do you have experience supporting homeless individuals with complex needs? If so, we want to hear from you!
Southwark Council is seeking a compassionate and dedicated Supported Pathways Officer to support vulnerable adults in our managed hostel service. In this rewarding role, you'll work directly with residents, providing key support, risk assessments, and resettlement assistance, helping them gain the skills and confidence to live independently.
What You’ll Be Doing
✔ Key working with a caseload of residents, providing person-centred support to help them maintain their accommodation and move towards independent living.
✔ Developing personalised support plans, identifying goals, and linking residents to services that improve their physical and mental well-being.
✔ Conducting risk assessments, safeguarding checks, and ensuring residents understand health and safety requirements.
✔ Working closely with health, social care, and criminal justice services, advocating for residents to get the support they need.
✔ Providing hands-on practical support, from ensuring living spaces are habitable to accompanying residents to key appointments (e.g., DWP, health services, housing viewings).
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone who is:
🏠 Experienced in supporting homeless individuals with complex needs in a housing, social care, or support setting.
🛠 Knowledgeable about trauma-informed care, the Care Act, and Housing legislation related to single homeless adults.
💬 A strong communicator and advocate, able to support and motivate residents while working collaboratively with multiple agencies.
About Southwark
We are the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues and social enterprises and we have a young, diverse and growing population.
At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities. Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.
This post requires a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service DBS check at Enhanced level.
Benefits and more information:
In your role, we want you to feel supported, challenged and rewarded. You will benefit from our family-friendly policies including flexible working, home working, and a local government pension scheme, plus many other staff benefits. You will join a motivated, driven and supportive team that strives for excellence and values its members. You will also be part of a successful and high-achieving development team that is making a real difference to the lives of residents in the borough. For more information about the wide variety of benefits you can take advantage of please visit our Staff Benefits page.
Recruitment timetable
Advert Closing date: 16/03/2025
Interview date: 31/03/2025
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:
• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care, or have previously been in care
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together programme. We particularly welcome applications from members of the Black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.
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