Overview
Tenancy Support Worker (Transitions) – NN16 8TL
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 the role
This is an exciting job opportunity to work within the Accommodation Service, providing support and assistance to single people accommodated in the Council’s established Transitions Project ensuring that the project is managed robustly, complies with health and safety requirements and opportunities for income collection are maximised.
Engage, build trust and motivate residents and work in partnership with a range of statutory and voluntary sector partners to maximise opportunities for early intervention and homeless prevention, delivering a holistic, multi-disciplinary package of specialist housing and tenancy support.
Ensure that residents are supported to sustain their accommodation, preventing repeat homelessness and rough sleeping, and have the skills and ability to move on to alternative settled accommodation in accordance with service timescales.
Please note this post is fixed term for one year with the possibility of the post becoming permanent beyond the initial fixed term contract.
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 Leavan Gibson (Leavan.Gibson@northnorthants.gov.uk).
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
