Personal Outreach Support Worker

For our Mental Health Care in the Neighborhood team (Lelystad), we are looking for a Personal Outreach Support Worker for at least 24 hours per week (hours in consultation).

You guide them toward an independent and safe existence, working from a foundation of trust and with an eye for the person behind the behavior. You help clients find and maintain a stable living and residential environment and, together with them, set goals aimed at recovery and self-reliance. In doing so, you offer practical support, for example with debts, administration, or arranging housing. You also guide clients to appointments at agencies such as the court, Probation Service, or practitioners. You are the connecting link between the client, colleagues, and external organizations such as municipalities, police, and healthcare institutions. You actively involve the client's social network in the recovery process. You adapt when necessary: sometimes you are a coach, sometimes a facilitator, sometimes a listening ear. You work with people and with their stories, where cultural sensitivity is essential. No two days are the same. You work independently, but you are never alone. You are given space to be creative in your approach and to grow alongside your clients. The impact of your work is directly felt. For the client, their environment, and for you.

Want to know more about this position? Please contact Jeltsje de Vries via j.devries@kwintes.nl.

Our GGZ in the Neighborhood team in Lelystad consists of dedicated colleagues and offers customized support to young adults, adults, and families with a psychiatric or psychological vulnerability, possibly in combination with a mild intellectual disability and/or substance use. The team works with support programs such as Kamers met Kansen, Housing First, Bemoeizorg, and Gewoon Thuis, among others.

We offer both planned and unplanned support within a structure of 24-hour availability and accessibility. The 24-hour accessibility means that employees fulfill a telephone on-call service at least three times per month, running from 08:00 to 19:00. We work closely with our own team, the network, the neighborhood, and various chain partners. We maintain an open and approachable attitude, see obstacles as challenges, and make optimal use of everyone's unique expertise.

Kwintes supports people with a psychiatric or psychosocial vulnerability. We offer our clients professional help with living, working, and learning, to lead as independent a life as possible. You can find us in many different places in the center of the country; from Flevoland to Gouda. Recovery is a meaningful concept in the support that Kwintes offers. Employees of Kwintes rely on the recovery capacity of clients and support this process. We experience connection with our 2000 colleagues and together we commit ourselves every day to helping people. At Kwintes, we focus on what is possible, even when it comes to your career. We work from trust and offer you a meaningful job, the space to be yourself, and to get more out of yourself. Do you also see more in people?

You know better than anyone how to make contact with people who are difficult to reach. You remain calm, even when the situation is not, and you persevere where others stop.

• You have a higher professional education (HBO) diploma, for example in Social Work.

• You have a post-HBO qualification in Outreach Support. If you do not have this yet, Kwintes is happy to think along with you about the possibilities to facilitate this.

• You can work independently, but you actively seek collaboration with colleagues and chain partners.

• You have your own transport to visit clients (Work area North Flevoland).

• A job in which you make a difference every day!

• A salary between €3,560 and €4,716 based on 36 hours (CAO GGZ, FWG 50).

• Your first contract is a temporary contract. If we are happy with each other, your next contract will be for an indefinite period.

• In addition to the statutory 8.33% holiday allowance, you receive an end-of-year bonus of 8.33%, and at Kwintes, we offer a balance budget of €1,000 gross per year pro rata to your employment. Our lease scheme for the most beautiful and best (electric) bicycles is also worth mentioning!

• An excellent pension scheme in which Kwintes contributes 50%.

• A wide range of education, training, and coaching; both through our Learning & Development department and via external parties.

Enthusiastic? We look forward to your response via our website. You will receive an initial response from us within a few working days. Would you prefer more information first? Please feel free to contact Nilas Klein (recruiter) via Nilas.klein@kwintes.nl. He will be happy to tell you more!
The procedure consists of 2 interviews; the 1st interview is with the recruiter and the 2nd interview is on-site with 1 or 2 colleagues and a client. If applicable, a shadowing moment and the employment conditions interview will follow. Upon employment, we request a Certificate of Good Conduct (VOG). This vacancy is posted both internally and externally.

Nice job, right? We expect to fill this position ourselves and consider recruitment a waste of both your time and ours.