Street Outreach Practitioner

• locations
• Forward Leeds - Kirkgate

• time type
• Full time

• posted on
• Posted Yesterday

• job requisition id
• JR010277

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Street Outreach Practitioner – Forward Leeds

Location: 74 Kirkgate, Leeds, LS2 7DJWorking Hours: Monday-Friday 8am-4pm or 8:30am-4:30pm. This post will include some early morning and evening work (Monday-Friday) on a rota basis (the team currently do a late shift 10am-6pm and an early shift 5:30am-12:30pm, both occur approximately once every 6 weeks).Contract Type: PermanentSalary: £25,110 - £32,090 per annum

Please note that we welcome/recommend a pre-interview visit, to give candidates the opportunity to understand the role but to also experience the environment and people they will be working with day-to-day.

Make a real difference in your community

Are you passionate about helping others live safer, healthier and more independent lives?

Join Waythrough, one of the UK’s leading mental health and social support charities, and make a lasting impact every day.

We support over 125,000 people each year through our 200 services, empowering individuals to overcome challenges around mental health, housing, and substance use.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has become available for position of Street Outreach Practitioner based within our Forward Leeds team.

What You’ll Do

Street Support Recovery Co-ordination is a diverse and rewarding role, key duties you will undertake are:

• Manage a caseload, devising, implementing, and reviewing on-going recovery and treatment plans.
• Facilitate and promote individuals’ progression from initial engagement into structured treatment.
• Work in a proactive role to minimise and prevent rough sleeping and begging within Leeds by engaging and maintaining clients into treatment.
• Reduce substance related harm to individuals and the wider community.
• Working collaboratively with key partners and colleagues across the street support partnership to achieve the best health and wellbeing outcomes for individuals.
• To support individuals to move into supported, more permanent accommodation.
• To provide holistic support to adult service users and to coordinate their drug treatment, including assessment, recovery coordination, Psychosocial Interventions (PSI) delivery and multi-agency working.
• As directed by the Lead Practitioner, the practitioner will be an integral member of the dynamic multi-agency team developing comprehensive and tailored individual interventions.

To Succeed in This Role, You’ll Need:

• Experience of holding a caseload.
• Knowledge and/or experience of substance misuse.
• Experience supporting vulnerable people, whose lives have been affected by alcohol and/or drug use.
• A relevant qualification in Health and Social Care.

To view the full job description and person specification, please click here.Please be advised, if you are viewing this role on Indeed, the link to the job description will not work. Please click the 'Apply via Company Website' button to be redirected to our careers page, where you will be able to view the job description in full. The salary advertised below demonstrates the full earning potential for this role, starting salaries will allow for pay progression within the pay band.

About Waythrough

Formed in 2024 through the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship, Waythrough is now one of the largest mental health and social support charities in England.

With 3,500 staff and volunteers across more than 200 services, we help people to live full, meaningful lives.

Some roles may still appear under our legacy brands (Humankind, Richmond Fellowship, Aquarius) while we complete our integration — but wherever you join us, you’ll be part of one supportive team, sharing one purpose.

What We Offer

We value the people who make a difference every day. Alongside meaningful work, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive benefits package:

• 27 days’ annual leave, rising to 32 after 1 year (plus bank holidays)
• Pension scheme with 4.5% employer contribution, matched up to 6.5%
• Life assurance (3× annual salary)
• Enhanced sick pay and family-friendly pay
• Birthday leave and the option to buy up to 5 extra days’ annual leave
• Professional fee reimbursement for relevant qualifications
• 24/7 online GP access and Employee Assistance Programme
• Recognition and long service awards via our Way to GoandAspirationsportals
• £500 Recommend a Friendbonus
• Cycle to Work scheme and Credit Union membership
• Discounts via Blue Light Card, Charity Discounts, Extras and Tickets for Good
• Free will writing service and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year

Inclusion and Accessibility

Waythrough is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and communities — especially those with lived experience of the issues we support.

If you need adjustments or support to apply, please email recruitmentteam@waythrough.org.uk.

How to Apply

If you’re viewing this advert on an external platform such as Indeed, please click ‘Apply via Company Website’ to view the full job description and submit your application.

Please note: The salary listed reflects the full earning potential for this role. Starting salaries depend on experience and progression within the band.

About Us

Waythrough launched in October 2024 following the merger of Humankind and Richmond Fellowship.

Our vision is to break down the barriers that stop people getting the support they need to live a life they value. We tackle poverty and disadvantage in communities, through mental health, drug and alcohol, housing and related support.

We have almost 200 services around England – and nearly 3,500 amazing staff and volunteers who run them. Every year our services support around 125,000 people.

Bringing together two big organisations is not a small task and it’ll take a while to fully integrate our systems, processes and approaches. That’s why you will notice the jobs here are still branded ‘Richmond Fellowship’ or ‘Aquarius’ (our subsidiary charity in the Midlands). Next year we’ll be fully integrating our recruitment systems but for now they are separate.

Thanks for bearing with us – and don’t forget to check out the Waythrough jobs on the Humankind job site https://peoplekind.my.salesforce-sites.com/recruit/

Aquarius

Aquarius is a subsidiary of Waythrough. Aquarius is a Midlands-based charity supporting individuals to overcome the harms caused by drugs, alcohol and gambling. Aquarius has always held the view that people we support could resolve their problems with support and guidance and that people have the ability to find their own solutions to their problems. Our roles across the organisation include Practitioners and Administrators as well as Team Managers.

Find out more at www.aquarius.org.uk