Housing Specialist

Great Places Housing Group; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Places Housing Group is seeking a Tenancy Coach in the United Kingdom. The role focuses on guiding customers most at risk of tenancy failure, using a strengths-based approach and coaching techniques to help individuals build skills to sustain tenancies and live independently.

You will conduct initial assessments, develop personalised wellbeing plans, and signpost to specialist support as needed. The post emphasizes safeguarding, collaboration with partners, and staff training to share best

Qualifications

• Experience in a support role or similar
• Experience with a strengths-based approach to help clients achieve goals
• In-depth understanding of the welfare benefits system and social inclusion
• Experience providing guidance and training to colleagues on problem resolution

Responsibilities

• Provide 1-1 sessions and telephone guidance to customers at risk of tenancy failure
• Develop wellbeing plans with customers and coach actions to achieve outcomes
• Signpost to other agencies for specialist support
• Create and monitor a Risk Management plan with customers to manage tenancy risks
• Track progress in wellbeing plans and identify trends to support independence
• Build relationships with relevant organisations to access the right services
• Provide training and peer-to-peer support to colleagues on handling low-level issues

Skills

Strengths-based coaching

Coaching techniques

Welfare benefits knowledge

Safeguarding

Signposting to services

Training colleagues

Education

GCSE English & Maths

Job description

The Vacancy

Tenancy Coach

Reporting to Tenancy Support Manager, the Tenancy Coach is responsible for providing guidance and assistance to customers who are most at risk of their tenancy failing, focussing on the customers strengths and encouraging them to build on these by identifying the skills and tools they need to successfully manage their tenancy and live independently now and in the future. This will be achieved through the provision of 1-1 sessions, telephone advice and guidance, creating a Wellbeing plan to identify the steps to be taken to achieve the stated outcomes and signposting to other agencies where more specialist support is required.

What you’ll be doing

• Use a strengths based approach, building on the attributes of our customers, to help them to develop the skills required to sustain their tenancy and assist in resolving complex benefit issues.
• Conduct initial assessments to understand customer needs and opportunities’ and use coaching techniques to understand the root cause of the issue requiring support.
• In collaboration with the customer, assist them to develop a wellbeing plan which sets out the outcomes they want to achieve and coach them to identify the actions they need to take.
• To provide advice and guidance around welfare benefits and welfare support (white goods or furniture packages), to ensure customers have access to what they are entitled to.
• To meet as regularly as agreed with customers and monitor the outcomes recorded in the wellbeing plan, analysing trends and patterns to assess how customers are progressing towards achieving their goals, coaching customers to resolve issues themselves and understand the impact and consequences of decisions made.
• Assist customers to create a Risk Management plan which identify the risks they face in maintaining a tenancy and coach them to identify the ways these can be managed.
• To ensure safeguarding concerns are dealt with promptly and in line with guide lines and appropriate action is taken.
• To develop and maintain effective networks with relevant organisations or agencies to ensure customers are signposted to, and can access, the right services.
• To be responsible for giving guidance and training to colleagues about how to resolve low level issues customers face and provide challenge as to whether support is required from the Tenancy Coach or if signposting elsewhere is more appropriate.

What you’ll need

• Qualified to minimum GCSE grade C or equivalent in English and Maths.

What we need from you

• You will be required to attend a number of face to face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning this part of your role is vital and of equal importance as the day to day aspects.
• Experience of working in a support role or similar role is essential.
• Experience of using a strength based approach to assist customers to achieve their goals is desirable.
• In depth understanding of the welfare benefits system and social inclusion is essential.
• Experience of using coaching techniques to help customers identify actions and solutions for themselves, promoting and maximising independence.
• Experience and understanding of safeguarding.
• Experience of providing or signposting customers towards a responsive, timely, and appropriate service that provides a holistic and integrated solution to assist them to solve their problem.
• Effective liaison with colleagues and other stakeholders to give, or find, information to resolve problems.
• Experience of providing training and peer to peer support to effectively share specialist knowledge and learning.
• Ability to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner when working under pressure and maintain attention to detail.
• A commitment to understand the challenges and opportunities that exist in the communities in which we work. We particularly value lived experience in social housing
• A passion to advocate on behalf of people and communities