Early Prevention Officer
| Posting date: | 16 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 April 2026 |
| Location: | Bury, BL9 0SW |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75793729 |
Summary
Team
Early Intervention Worker Homelessness Prevention & Community Support
Make a real impact. Change the trajectory of lives.
We’re looking for a passionate, proactive Early Intervention Worker to join our Homelessness Prevention team. This is a dynamic, communityfocused role designed to stop homelessness before it happens. If you thrive in fastpaced environments, can manage a varied caseload, and believe in personcentred support, this could be your next step.
What You’ll Do
You’ll work directly with individuals and families at risk of homelessness, offering specialist advice, targeted support, and practical solutions. Your work will reduce the need for statutory intervention by helping people stabilise their housing situation early.
Your responsibilities will include:
Providing homelessness and housing advice, mediation, and negotiation support
Managing a high and varied caseload, from lowlevel needs to complex cases
Offering selfhelp tools, signposting, and tailored support plans
Ensuring homelessness duties are correctly applied
Connecting clients with services such as health, debt management, substance use support, mental health services, community groups, and faith organisations
This is holistic, personcentred work that meets people where they are and helps them move forward safely.
Working Across the Community
You’ll be embedded in the communityschools, GP practices, hubs, outreach teams, and local organisationsidentifying risks early and acting quickly. You’ll collaborate with:
Housing and Homelessness Services
Social care and public protection
Healthcare providers
Probation and criminal justice partners
Community and voluntary sector organisations
You’ll also help shape prevention tools, deliver bespoke training, and keep partners informed of local and national policy changes. This role sits within the GMCA Live Well and Public Service Reform model, contributing to a truly multidisciplinary approach.
Ongoing Support & Monitoring
You’ll maintain regular contact with clients and partner services, tracking progress and adjusting support as needed. You’ll lead on multiagency coordination, ensuring every individual or family receives the right help at the right time to prevent homelessness.
If you want a role where your work genuinely changes lives, where no two days are the same, and where your skills can help build stronger, safer communities, we’d love to hear from you.
Normal hours of work are 37 hours per week based around the usual business working week. Dependent on service requirements, you may be required to work on a rota basis.
About Bury
The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Appointment may be subject to a satisfactory disclosure at the appropriate level under the Disclosure and Barring Service.
In line with safer recruitment, please ensure that your application/CV covers your full employment history and there is a reason noted for any gaps in employment. Successful candidates will be asked to provide relevant references for the past ten years and character references will not be accepted.
Please note we are unable to support with sponsorship at this time.
As a Corporate Parent, ensure that the work and services you deliver considers our care experienced young people, promotes their life chances empowers them to influence the policies, services, and decisions that affect them, champions their rights, and ensure they grow up in the best possible way
Benefits of working for Bury Council
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We support employees to work with agility, where appropriate for the post and service requirements.
We are committed to Bury being an equal society that recognises values and embraces all people, regardless of any difference, for the skills, abilities and experiences they bring into the workforce and the wider community. Therefore we guarantee an interview for disabled people, looked after children/ care leavers, armed forces personnel (including reservists and veterans) and carers of adults or disabled children if they meet the essential criteria.
If you have completed the GM Elevate (Leadership Development) Programme, please indicate this within the ‘About You’ or ‘Supporting Statement’ section of your application.
Next steps
For an informal chat regarding the role please contact Angela Murphy - A.Murphy@bury.gov.uk
Interviews will be held on TBC
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