About the role
This is an exciting new position to help support, develop and strengthen the Council’s Rough Sleeping Service funded by the Government’s Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI). The role will be key in helping to shape the service moving forward, ensuring efficient use of resources, and linking into the wider strategic direction of the housing service.
Please note based on external funding this post is fixed term until the end of March 2025.
What will you be doing?
Working closely with the Rough Sleeping Team, Housing Policy Performance Manager and Strategic Lead for Housing Strategy and Solutions you will lead on and ensure there is regular investment in partnership development to support operational efforts to ensure that rough sleeping is rare, brief, and non-recurring across North Northamptonshire.
You will also facilitate and support the Council to develop the rough sleeping pathway through service user involvement, robust performance and financial management and service monitoring along with contributing to the delivery of the North Northamptonshire Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy, and associated partnership forum.
About you
You will have experience of monitoring service performance, action planning, developing, and supporting effective partnership working and have a good understanding of homelessness and rough sleeping services.
With excellent communication and organisational skills and a proven ability to be proactive, you will be flexible in your approach and achieve positive outcomes through using your own initiative or collaboratively with others.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details including the essential and desirable criteria for this role.
For further information or an informal chat about the role please contact either Suzanne Jackson on 07920 790890 or Carly Hohn on 07738 803242.
Our benefits
We offer:
- 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.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (27 days, rising to 32 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country.
Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected do they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
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We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete.
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