About the role
An exciting new role at North Northamptonshire Council within the Housing Solutions Service, the Senior Officer Temporary Accommodation will be responsible for managing the Council's Temporary Accommodation Team ensuring that temporary accommodation let to homeless households is of high quality, suitable, safe and cost effective.
You will provide effective supervision and manage the performance of a team of Temporary Accommodation Officers, ensuring the Council is compliant with statutory requirements and delivering a high quality temporary accommodation service. Supporting the Accommodation Services Team Leader, you will ensure that all forms of temporary accommodation are managed robustly, compliant with relevant health and safety requirements, and opportunities for income collection are maximised.
You will work within the Accommodation Services management team to identify service improvement, enhancement and best practice with the overall aim of placement sustainment, prevention of homelessness and rough sleeping, and reducing the cost and use of temporary accommodation.
To succeed in the role, you must have demonstratable experience at a senior officer level (or similar) with an experience of handling complex cases and achieving positive results.
The role will require the post holder to be based in the office full time across the North Northamptonshire area.
Our benefits
Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.
You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!
Why choose us?
We offer a vibrant working environment with:
- 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.
- lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.
About us
Our Values and Behaviours
Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:
Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy
Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.
Disability Confident Employer
We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.
Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council
Armed Forces Community
The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).
Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)
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