Housing Officer

☞ Langley House Trust

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Shipley Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Other

Industry: Hospital & Health Care

Position: Entry level

Job type: Full-time

Salary: £21,583/yr - £21,583/yr

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INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

We have an opportunity available for a Housing Officer to join our team based inBradfordon a full time, temporary basis until March 2022. The successful candidate will receive a salary of £21,583 per annum.

Langley House Trust is an innovative, brave and far reaching Christian charity that provides specialist housing, programmes and support services in the community for offenders seeking to live crime-free lives. Since 1958, we have earned an enviable reputation for reducing reoffending. Our reconviction rate for people in our housing is one of the lowest in the Country, standing at 3%. Regardless of a person’s history, our passion is to change every life for the better, working with people of all faiths and none. Our person-centred support works and it changes lives!

We love our work and have recently been accredited with IIP (Investors in People) Gold standard for the second time in a row (which shows our investment in people management) and Care and Support Provider of the Year 2019 in the 24Housing Awards.

As our Housing Officer, you will be responsible for ensuring compliance with the Trust policies processes, procedures and stakeholder contracts, by liaising with staff, external agencies and partners; ensuring that all properties within the allocated portfolio are safe, habitable, fit for purpose and fully equipped in accordance with the Trust policies and the terms of the tenancy agreement with the relevant landlords.

Responsibilities

Of Our Housing Officer
  • Assisting in the management of the referral process within the project
  • Leading in the assessment and management of risk
  • Working with both police and probation along with the local authority housing department
  • Providing information and advice about Welfare Benefits, especially that of Housing Benefit
  • Where tenants have a physical disability, assisting in the assessment of needs and the provision of equipment/facilities
  • Providing relevant information to tenants and getting feedback from them on occupancy related matters
  • Providing information about tenants’ rights and responsibilities, addressing breaches of occupancy with tenants using the Trust’s relevant policies and procedures
  • Signposting to and liaising with advocacy/agencies, enabling tenants to develop social skills through specific programmes provided by these advocacy/agencies
  • Taking action to address incidents of rent arrears
  • Being available for tenants wishing to move into alternative independent accommodation
  • Supporting statutory agencies in the monitoring of risk and other support/care of training factors relating to the tenants
What can we offer you as our Housing Officer?
  • Pension matched up to 8 %
  • Training
  • Annual leave up to 30 days
The Bradford project has a 17-bed hostel facility as well as 24 units of move-on accommodation in the community for clients with a Bradford connection at risk of offending. You would be supported by the management team at Box Tree Cottage and have an appropriate induction so you can feel confident in adjusting to a new role. This may include shadowing staff at Horton Housing who we share a contract with to deliver our service in the community.

We are a small and friendly team who have a passion for helping individuals develop life skills, enabling them to turn their lives around.

If you want to work for a values-led charity that makes a real difference to people’s lives, apply today to join our team as our Housing Officer,please click ‘Apply’ now!

Closing date: 31/06/2021

Interview Date: TBC

We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.

COVID-19- We have very clear guidelines in place around COVID-19 to make all of our workplaces a COVID safe place to work. There is also currently regular testing in place for all frontline adult social care staff. PPE is fully supplied and enforced to continue to support a safe environment for our clients and employees. In our work settings delivering care, we also offer a clothing allowance for you to buy some extra clothes to ensure our employees wear freshly laundered clothes on every shift. There are changing facilities and lockers provided for this.

Due to the specialist nature of our work and the vulnerabilities of our clients, and depending on the role in question, we may require job applicants to be tested and/or vaccinated against specific illness to prevent or limit the spread of illnesses which are particularly dangerous to our clients in accordance with Government and/or regulatory advice, or legislation. This would be at no cost to you. The Trust would only process your personal health data when it is lawful to do so and only when necessary, in the circumstances.

Please raise any questions or concerns you have about undergoing testing, vaccinations or complying with any other safety measures with the hiring manager or by contacting our recruitment team. These will be discussed sensitively with you.

A satisfactory enhanced DBS and Adults Barred List check is required for this role and job offers will be subject to the Trust receiving satisfactory evidence of the successful applicant’s right to work in the UK.
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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