About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for two additional Rough Sleeper Workers, funded by the Government’s Rough Sleeping Initiative (RSI) to join our dynamic and successful Rough Sleeping Team to help ensure rough sleeping is rare, brief, and non-recurring across North Northamptonshire.
These posts will cover one of the four main areas in North Northants with flexibility required to work across North Northamptonshire and within the local community when needed.
Please note based on external funding this post is fixed term until the end of March 2025.
What will you be doing?
As a Rough Sleeper Worker you will undertake regular street outreach sessions (including during the night and early morning), responding to intelligence and searching known rough sleeping sites, to identify people sleeping rough and help them to leave the streets as quickly as possible.
You will also provide advocacy, casework, and support to those helped off the streets and into accommodation to ensure that they successfully sustain their accommodation and acquire the skills and ability to live independently.
About you
You will have experience of working with and supporting vulnerable people and have a good understanding of housing and homelessness issues, including the barriers people face when trying to leave the streets.
You will have a proven ability to inspire and motivate people and work effectively with others and be able to work well under pressure due to the changing demands of the service.
To succeed in the role, you must be focused on achieving positive outcomes, have excellent communication skills and be an accomplished negotiator and problem solver.
Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details including the essential and desirable criteria for this role.
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 vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.
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 so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.
Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.
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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