Tenancy Support Worker (Housing Support Grant)

What will you be doing?

Working closely with the Housing Options Team and partner agencies, you will deliver person centred, non-prescriptive support to households throughout their treatment and recovery journey.

You will be providing housing advice, guidance, and housing related support to ensure that individuals are able to successfully maintain their accommodation or find alternative suitable accommodation as required. Ultimately your intervention will help to improve recovery outcomes and avoid homelessness.

You will also effectively liaise with a range of colleagues, partners, and other agencies to ensure appropriate specialist support is accessed to meet their individual needs.

About you

You will have experience of working in a support role, including assessment, support planning and advocacy and an ability to work with vulnerable people.

Working effectively as part of a team and with the ability to develop good working relationships with colleagues and service users, you will be able to work well under your own initiative and prioritise your workload.

To succeed in the role, you must be focussed on achieving positive outcomes, have excellent communication skills and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills in supporting people.

If you wish to find out more information about the role, please contact Edward Frost, Interim Temporary Accommodation Team Leader, email - Edward.Frost@northnorthants.gov.uk, or Laurie Chapman, Senior Tenancy Support Worker, email - Laurie.Chapman@northnorthants.gov.uk.

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

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.

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.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

We aim to be a carbon neutral Council by 2030.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)