Community Coach - Housing

Orbit Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major housing organization is seeking a Community Coach in Greater London to engage with local communities. This role involves assessing customer needs, delivering Information Advice and Guidance, and building partnerships. Candidates should possess empathic communication skills, experience in community settings, and a valid driver's license for business use. The organization offers flexible working, training opportunities, and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Training programmes for career development

Wellbeing programmes

Qualifications

• Must have a car for business use and be willing to travel.
• Experience of delivering IAG in a community-based setting is essential.
• Ability to respect information sharing protocols and data protection legislation.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver community engagement activities.
• Provide Information Advice and Guidance to customers.
• Maintain partnerships with local services to support additional activity.

Skills

Empathic approach

Compliance with Code of Conduct

Ability to handle difficult situations

IAG delivery experience

Education

IAG Level 3 qualification or above

Tools

Car for business use

Job description

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

At Orbit Group our Community Coaches are partners in our local communities, they use a coaching approach, working with customers in their communities to find their own solutions.

In this role, you must be able to expertly assess customer need and provide high quality information, advice and guidance to support and connect customers with local services, groups, clubs, and organisations that can help provide support and help the local community thrive.

The successful candidate must have access to a car and be willing to travel to cover our South East London area, mainly Bexley.

This role is part of our Customer directorate where you'll help us to lead the way in keeping our promise to more than 100,000 customers.

What you’ll achieve

• Plan and deliver an ongoing programme of community engagement and activity events within agreed geographical areas.
• Providing Information Advice and Guidance (IAG) and support to Orbit customers to help them sustain their tenancies including triage assessment and making customer referrals into Better Days support services and external support services.
• Providing support around tenancy sustainment, leveraging in third party partner support where needed, direct delivery of complex support where required which will include domestic abuse support or delivery of this work through a partner organisation where appropriate.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with local services to support additional activity and referral routes.
• Build trust between customers and Orbit through local presence and enabling customers to interact more effectively with Orbit, including supporting customers to sign up to MyAccount.

What you’ll bring

Essential skills

• Able to adopt an empathic approach in discussions and negotiations, understand the needs and perceptions of customers and to handle situations sensitively and deal calmly and confidently with emotional and difficult situations.
• Ensure compliance to the organisation’s Code of Conduct in the delivery and provision of services to staff and the community and all work practices are customer focused and operated to clear standards.
• Must have a car for business use and be willing and able to travel to meet the requirements of the role which covers Orbit geography.
• Experience of delivering IAG in a community-based setting or within a community focused programme ideally with an IAG Level 3 or above qualification.
• To be able to respect information sharing protocols particularly regarding client rights to confidentiality and data protection legislation

Desirable skills

• Experience of managing volunteers and developing volunteer routes
• Experience of community service design
• Previous experience of providing direct customer support, Information Advice and Guidance Provision

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check