RSAP Tenancy Support Worker

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Council's Never Give Up team having secured funding from Government through the Rough Sleeping Accommodation Programme to provide move-on homes to help reduce rough sleeping in North Northamptonshire. Our portfolio of RSAP properties provide settled supported accommodation to our cohort of individuals who have experienced rough sleeping on an entrenched basis and who have often experienced trauma leading to complex support needs.

We are therefore looking to recruit a dedicated and motivated individual to provide a seamless tenancy support service to rough sleepers accommodated via this programme.

Please note this post is initially fixed term until 31st March 2025 with the possibility for extension dependent on external grant funding.

What will you be doing?

You will be working across North Northamptonshire to provide support and assistance to people with complex needs who have experienced rough sleeping and multiple exclusion homelessness accommodated in the Never Give Up provision, upholding Housing First principles, and achieve move on in accordance with service timescales.

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 with complex needs.

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 focused on achieving positive outcomes, have excellent communication skills and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.

For further information or an informal chat about the role please contact:
Laurie Chapman, Accommodation Services Team Leader, 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 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

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The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

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