Homelessness Support Practitioner
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £30,060 to £32,654 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 July 2025 |
| Location: | Denbighshire, Wales |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Denbighshire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | AHOS00069D1AGE |
Summary
Homelessness Support Practitioner
Job reference: AHOS00069D1AGE
Location: Across Denbighshire
Salary: Grade 6, £30,060 - £32,654 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 1st July 2025
The opportunity has arisen for 2 dynamic individuals to work in a new, exciting and evolving role as a Homelessness Support Practitioner as part of the Denbighshire Homeless Prevention service.
The post holders will undertake a broad and creative range of tasks working with our Social Worker, and other multidisciplinary team members, to facilitate timely move on to permanent accommodation, whilst enabling individuals and their carers to achieve definitive outcomes that matter to them to maximise potential, regain or maintain independence, with a view to sustaining a tenancy in the long term.
This is an opportunity to work in a brand new, innovative role and shape it to form an essential part of the multidisciplinary team. Working with households in a person centred way ensuring that practice is fully psychologically and trauma informed.
Appointment subject to Disclosure & Barring Service Check and satisfactory references.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please call Nichola Harris on 01824 712435.
What makes Denbighshire County Council a great place to work?
We believe the hard work and commitment of our staff should be properly rewarded, so we offer a range of benefits to help our employees achieve a work/life balance, develop in their career, and we support them in their work.
• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays) rising with length of service to a total of 32 days
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Focus on Employee Wellbeing and access to EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
• Lifestyle Savings via DCC Rewards Direct (high street shopping, holidays, days out etc)
• Car salary sacrifice scheme and car leasing scheme
• Family friendly policies
How to Apply?
To apply for this exciting vacancy, please complete our online application form via the website, where you can also view the full job description and personal specification:
www.denbighshire.gov.uk/work-for-us
Please outline on your application form how you meet all the essential criteria for this position within your supporting statement.
Candidates must complete an application form on our website to be considered. We regret that we are unable to reply to all applications. If you have not received a reply within three weeks of the closing date, you must assume that you have not been short listed for interview.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Job reference: AHOS00069D1AGE
Location: Across Denbighshire
Salary: Grade 6, £30,060 - £32,654 per annum
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: 1st July 2025
The opportunity has arisen for 2 dynamic individuals to work in a new, exciting and evolving role as a Homelessness Support Practitioner as part of the Denbighshire Homeless Prevention service.
The post holders will undertake a broad and creative range of tasks working with our Social Worker, and other multidisciplinary team members, to facilitate timely move on to permanent accommodation, whilst enabling individuals and their carers to achieve definitive outcomes that matter to them to maximise potential, regain or maintain independence, with a view to sustaining a tenancy in the long term.
This is an opportunity to work in a brand new, innovative role and shape it to form an essential part of the multidisciplinary team. Working with households in a person centred way ensuring that practice is fully psychologically and trauma informed.
Appointment subject to Disclosure & Barring Service Check and satisfactory references.
If you would like to discuss any aspect of the post, please call Nichola Harris on 01824 712435.
What makes Denbighshire County Council a great place to work?
We believe the hard work and commitment of our staff should be properly rewarded, so we offer a range of benefits to help our employees achieve a work/life balance, develop in their career, and we support them in their work.
• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 26 days (plus bank holidays) rising with length of service to a total of 32 days
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Focus on Employee Wellbeing and access to EAP (Employee Assistance Programme)
• Lifestyle Savings via DCC Rewards Direct (high street shopping, holidays, days out etc)
• Car salary sacrifice scheme and car leasing scheme
• Family friendly policies
How to Apply?
To apply for this exciting vacancy, please complete our online application form via the website, where you can also view the full job description and personal specification:
www.denbighshire.gov.uk/work-for-us
Please outline on your application form how you meet all the essential criteria for this position within your supporting statement.
Candidates must complete an application form on our website to be considered. We regret that we are unable to reply to all applications. If you have not received a reply within three weeks of the closing date, you must assume that you have not been short listed for interview.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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