Sustainable Housing Support Officer (Scale 6)

Job Category : Housing

Location : Edmonton Green Library, Enfield Council

Hours Per Week : 35.00

Start Date : Immediate Start

Start Time : 09:00

End Time : 17:00

Salary: £18.09

Ending Homelessness in Enfield

We are transforming our homelessness service to improve homelessness prevention, reduce temporary accommodation and end street homelessness.

Our new Housing Advisory Service will deliver sustainable housing outcomes for Enfield residents through a range of new services, including data-driven early intervention, community outreach, specialist practice teams and a street homelessness service.

We are seeking proactive, outcome focused people to join our Street Homelessness Service. The Street Homelessness Service has been set the ambitious target to end rough sleeping in Enfield

PRS Access Officer

We are recruiting PRS Access Support Worker, The Street Homelessness Accommodation Team will provide housing support services

The ideal candidate will be ambitious, proactive, collaborative, highly motivated and ready for a new challenge. You must also have strong communication and creative problem-solving skills together with the drive and passion to help vulnerable people to live independent and fulfilling lives. You must also be willing to work outside of office hours on occasion, be able to work independently and have good knowledge of welfare, housing and homelessness practice.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join and innovative and inspiring service aimed at ending rough sleeping in Enfield.

Why it’s great to work for Enfield Council

An excellent pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).

• Up to 31 days annual leave depending on grade and length of service. You will also get eight public holidays per year and an extra day off at Christmas.

• Interest free season ticket loan repayable over three or ten months.

• Career development and learning experiences from a range of training courses and learning methods.

• Employee Assistance Programme to provide advice and counselling services. This is a free and confidential service available to staff and members of their family.

Our culture

We are passionate about our people and how we deliver services to our community in Enfield. That’s why we encourage a culture that puts our customers at the heart of everything we do – by empowering our people to work together to find solutions, be open, honest and respectful, take responsibility and listen and learn. If you value these behaviours too, we’d love to hear from you – and of course we are always #Happy to Talk Flexible Working.

1. Ability assess, design, plan, implement Sustainable Housing Support Plans

• Ability to work independently using own initiative whilst remaining accountable to line management

• Experience of providing housing support to people who have experienced homelessness across a range of projects, including Housing First, Dispersed, Shared Accommodation and Private Rented Sector.

• Experience of providing housing support services to people who have experienced homelessness, including people with multiple and complex support needs, such as rough sleepers, people leaving prison/hospital, MAPPA

• Ability to ensure all aspects of casework is carried out in accordance with relevant legislation, safeguarding policies and initiatives set

• Ability to establish, develop and sustain effective working relationships with service users and partners.

• Ability to ensure service users’ casefiles and documentation is relevant and update and that data is accurately entered int the various IT systems

• Ability to constantly achieve performance targets and objectives

• Experience of working collaboratively to develop and deliver Sustainable Housing Support Plans

1. Good knowledge of welfare, housing and homelessness policy, strategies, legislation, and case law, and its implementation within a statutory homelessness service,

1. Good knowledge of Health & Safety, Safeguarding, Social Care and Equality policy and strategies