Visits tenants, plans support and connects people with services that help them keep stable housing.
Housing support worker work is about helping people who need support with housing, daily stability and access to social services, including older people, disabled people and people leaving homelessness or addiction.
In job descriptions, look for housing advice, person-centred support, assessing service users, social-service documentation, advocacy, complaints support, community activities and communication with other services.
Housing support workers help people maintain or regain stable living conditions. Work can include housing advice, daily-life support, contact with social services, documenting needs, helping with complaints and supporting community participation.
Useful skills include person-centred care, assessing a service user’s situation, housing advice, advocacy, professional communication across services, social-service documentation and problem solving when needs change.
Salary context depends on user group, shift pattern, lone-working expectations, case complexity, documentation load, coordination with other services and responsibility for safeguarding or crisis situations.
Development can lead toward senior support roles, social care coordination, housing advice, rehabilitation support, homelessness services or team leadership. Experience with assessment, documentation and multi-service cooperation is valuable.
Check which user groups the advert names, whether work is home visits, supported accommodation or office-based support, and what documentation is expected. Look for boundaries around personal care, crisis response, complaints and cooperation with social workers or healthcare staff.
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social care worker (3412.4)
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/4edbde9f-218e-49c7-812f-c45262fb4128 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 3412.4.7 |
| ISCO group | 3412 |
| Concept type | Occupation |