About the role
This an exciting opportunity to join the Council's Accommodation Service providing tenancy support to single homeless people living in temporary accommodation in need of or accessing treatment for drug and alcohol misuse to help them sustain their accommodation and prevent repeat homelessness.
It is not easy for people living in temporary accommodation, so if you want to make a difference and play an active role in changing people’s lives, look no further.
Funded through the Public Health Housing Support Grant , working alongside other Tenancy Support Workers you will engage, build trust and motivate residents. Working in partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary sector partners, you will maximise opportunities for early intervention and homeless prevention, delivering a holistic, multi-disciplinary package of specialist housing and tenancy support.
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.
With a minimum of two years relevant work experience in a customer focused environment you will also have excellent communication skills and be a skilled negotiator and problem solver. This is a busy role, in a fast paced environment so the successful candidate will also need to be able to meet deadlines, prioritise their workload, and work as part of an incredible team.
The role will be based full time in the office across North Northamptonshire.
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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