Housing Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 09 Gorffennaf 2024 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £24,770 |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 08 Awst 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Coventry, CV3 4AJ |
| Cwmni: | Langley House Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | b4081c88-1855-4162-8cd3-c1b13dc89dbc |
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We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and compassionate Housing Officer.
Langley Trust gives you support and free training to make a rewarding difference to people’s lives every day. We have a great opportunity available for a Housing Officer to join our team based at our Murray Lodge Service in Coventry on a permanent basis, working 40 hours per week.
The successful candidate will receive a competitive salary of £24,770 per annum plus excellent benefits
REWARDS PACKAGE
Langley Trust offers one of the best rewards packages in the care sector. Your generous benefits would include:
- Free learning and development (Continued professional development) to support you in your career
- Fantastic pension scheme, matched up to 8%
- Life Assurance up to 3 times your salary
- Paid DBS and renewals
- Generous annual leave up to 30 days plus bank holidays
- Company sick pay scheme
- Access to private holiday home getaway in Torquay
- Wellbeing Support – our 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme including free counselling and legal advice
- Other benefits including Eyecare & Flu vouchers and Smart Health -unlimited access to online, telephone and video GP appointments as well as a range of health and wellbeing services
- Access to chaplaincy and pastoral support
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 project 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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist in the management of the referral process within the project
- Provide information to clients and advise on Welfare Benefits including Housing Benefit
- Where tenants have a physical disability, assist in assessment of needs and the provision of equipment/facilities as required
- Provide information about tenants’ rights and responsibilities
- Address incidents of rent arrears
- Develop and maintain accurate records including correspondence, housing management plans and health and safety records on the tenants file
- Support statutory agencies in the monitoring of risk and other support/care or training factors
- Ensure that the team is fully briefed on the tenants and referrals according to the method of communication advised by their line manager
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About MURRAY LODGE
Murray Lodge is a hostel that provides housing and tenancy services for male ex-offenders based in Coventry. Murray Lodge provides a sign posting service for men to access specialist support in the community e.g. for substance misuse and mental health. The service offers accommodation to a diverse client base with low needs, who are supported by a strong multi-disciplinary housing team.
About LANGLEY TRUST
Langley Trust is an innovative Christian charity that provides specialist housing, care and support services in the community, and targeted advice in prisons, for people seeking to live crime-free. With one of the lowest reconvictions rates in the country – under 3% whilst people are in our housing and care – we are changing lives and making communities safer across the country.
Equality Diversity and Inclusion is integral to Langley Trust. We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.
DISABILITY CONFIDENT
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we run a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please state this in your application.
We're proud to be an Investors in People Gold employer which means we invest in our people. This is a huge achievement as our assessment covers the last 3 years of unprecedented challenges through the pandemic; additionally, Investors in People have raised the bar and acknowledge that it is harder now to secure the Gold standard than in previous years as they want to keep it meaningful.
If you want to join our team as our Housing Officer please apply now as we would love to hear from you.
Closing date: 08/08/2024
We reserve the right to close earlier if we receive sufficient applicants.
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.