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London, Greater London
Advice, Support & Guidance Workers – Housing
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Salary: £27,809 pa (including £4,570 London Weighting) + excellent benefits including 30 days holiday and flexible working |
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Overview
Fixed Term until 31st March 2021 Hackney, Islington and across London Closing date: 30 March 2020 at 11.30 pm. Interviews: w/c 6 April 2020. Are you a client-focused individual with recent experience of providing specialist level housing advice? Join Shelter as an Advice, Support & Guidance Worker and help ensure our clients get the support they need. A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. Shelter is the UK’s leading housing and homelessness charity campaigning and advocating— with individuals, in communities, across society. We need talented, collaborative people who are passionate about our cause to join us and campaign for an end to the UK’s housing crisis. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve. About the roles As an Advice, Support & Guidance Worker, you’ll conduct initial interviews at the advice centre, outreach sites and over the telephone in order to ensure our clients can access and sustain their accommodation, improve financial resilience and health and thrive in their community. Carrying out initial housing needs assessments and developing a strategy with the client, supporting them when moving into accommodation and connecting them with local support services are also key elements of this role. We currently have two vacancies at projects across our London Hub. When applying please indicate which role you are interested in: Star Partnership This is a pan-London housing and homelessness project working with Londoners over the age of 25 which aims to help up to 5,000 people a year in partnership with Thames Reach, Stonewall Housing and St Mungo’s with Shelter the lead partner. This service is delivered through a mixture of channels including telephone, face-to-face and digital. North Kensington Project This new project was set up in response to the fire at Grenfell Tower. Since the tragedy we’ve been working on the ground alongside local partners, supporting households on a daily basis. And we’re campaigning to make sure that a tragedy like this can never happen again. In this role you will split your time between two Shelter offices in Hackney and Islington and also spend time working in the community in Kensington & Chelsea. About you You’ll need relevant experience gained working within housing and within a safeguarding framework working with vulnerable people or those with multiple and complex needs. We’ll also be looking for a proven ability to prepare, plan and deliver briefings or group work sessions and work effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders, both statutory and non-statutory. Proficiency using a range of IT tools to carry out your work, including case management systems, Microsoft Office applications, internet and email etc. is important too, with the ability to type preferred. Proactive, results-driven and sensitive to the needs of others, you work well within a team and aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo and introduce new ideas, methods and processes if appropriate. Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, a comprehensive contributory pension scheme, employee assistance programme, interest free travel and tenancy deposit loans, cycle to work, retail discounts and access to exclusive Shelter fundraising events. Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness through our advice, support and legal services. And we campaign to make sure that, one day, no one will have to turn to us for help. We’re here so no one has to fight bad housing or homelessness on their own. To find out more about the role and the benefits of working for Shelter please visit our website. Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society. Safeguarding is everyone’s business. Shelter is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. At Shelter, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We also encourage applications from people, who have been homeless or have been at risk of homelessness. We are facing diverse problems, so need diverse people to tackle them. In addition to this, we encourage an approach to involving people with personal insight of housing issues and homelessness in our recruitment processes. Shelter does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.