Temporary Accommodation Resident Support - SO2
This post is based in Housing Solutions offering support to vulnerable clients living in Temporary Accommodation, assisting them to maintain their tenancies, offering resettlement support to clients moving into permanent (private or social housing).
Due to the nature of the client group, you will need to have a flexible attitude to your work and excellent organisation skills. You will also be required to work unsupervised and organise your own caseload so decision making and problem solving skills as well as experience of both are also key.
The successful applicant will have significant experience of support work within a housing setting. Experience of working with vulnerable clients is essential as well as the ability to advocate and negotiate on a client’s behalf.
You will be able to demonstrate a good working knowledge of housing and welfare benefits legislation as well as having the ability to use this knowledge to achieve best outcomes for your clients.
In addition, you will need excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to amend your approach depending on your audience in order to achieve best results for clients and the service.
As this team’s client group is based across London and further afield, your own transport is a significant advantage.
This post requires competence of IT packages such as Word and Excel as well as internal data systems.
The successful applicant will have 5 GCSE’s including Maths and English at C or above or equivalent work experience.
As we will be using the requirements listed above, for selection, your application should address each of these in turn.
Equal Opportunities
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy
How to apply
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