Housing Options Officer – (Rough Sleeping)

Bolton Council; Bolton; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts

Gym membership discounts

Salary sacrifice schemes

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Bolton Council is seeking a Housing Options Officer (Rough Sleeping) to support vulnerable individuals through transition from street to stable accommodation and improved health outcomes.

You will work with a multi-disciplinary team and partners, using trauma-informed methods and co-production to tailor support. Flexibility with hours and a strong commitment to safeguarding are essential.

Qualifications

• Full driving licence is essential.
• DBS clearance required.
• Excellent communication skills with vulnerable groups.

Responsibilities

• Provide interventions as a key worker to support rough sleepers through transitions from street to accommodation.
• Collaborate with outreach, navigators, health and mental health professionals and voluntary sector.
• Engage in reflective practice and co-production to keep services client-focused.
• Work flexibly including early mornings, evenings and some weekends to support engagement.

Skills

Full driving licence

DBS clearance

Job description

Grade F scp 17 £32,046 to scp 23 £35,570, essential car user allowance up to £963pa
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37 per week
Essential requirement: full driving licence, DBS
Interview date: TBC
For further information about this role, contact: [e-mail]

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The Role

The Housing Options Officer (Rough Sleeping) will provide a range of interventions as key worker to support rough sleepers through key transitions from the street, through respite and recovery into longer term accommodation and enabling them to greatly improved health and wellbeing.

You will work with a wide range of partner agencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team including outreach, navigators, health, addiction and mental health professionals and the voluntary sector. The role offers great opportunities to support people with trauma informed approach and principles of co-production to help them to positive longer-term lives and improved outcomes.

About You

As Housing Option Officer (Rough Sleeping) you will:

Have excellent communication skills that will enable you to build trust and rapport with people with often challenging and complex needs.

You will work effectively with partner agencies to support people through key transitions whilst maintaining a positive supportive approach focussing on harm reduction and supporting people through relapse to positive outcomes.

Work creatively with other professionals to best support people and will engage in processes of reflective practice and co-production to ensure our services remain client focussed and personalised to individual need.

Work flexibly throughout the week including early morning, evenings and occasionally weekends to ensure engagement and deliver effective outreach.

About Us

This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.

Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.

As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.

Our Values are really important to us, read all about them below, along with all our great staff benefits, the job description/person specification for the role and the important legal bits, and our Top Tips too.

Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS (Disclosure and Barring Service) clearance - this post is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (amended in 2013). Employment offers are conditional subject to satisfactory clearances. For roles where a criminal records check from the DBS is required, this includes satisfactory clearance of this check. The possession of a criminal record will not necessarily bar an individual from working with us. This will depend on the nature of the position and the circumstances and background of an individual’s offence/s. Information provided by you or the DBS will be dealt with in a confidential manner and in accordance with the DBS Code of Practice which can be viewed here. Bolton Council’s policy on the Employment of Ex-Offenders is available here.

This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.

This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.

For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact [e-mail]