Job Title: Rough Sleeping Co-ordinator
Location: East Suffolk Council, Lowestoft NR33 0EQ
Salary: £29,174 – £31,895 per annum
Job Type: Full Time (37 hrs per week), Fixed term until 31 March 2023
Closing Date: 24th March 2022 – 1:00pm
East Suffolk Council is an exciting place to work and a great place to make a real difference to people’s lives, delivering vital services to a quarter of a million people across East Suffolk.
The Role:
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join the East Suffolk Council’s Housing Needs Team as a Rough Sleeping Co-Ordinator.
The government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy gives a commitment to halve rough sleeping by 2022 and end it by 2027.
East Suffolk Council is working hard to deliver against this challenging target.
Working closely alongside the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and our statutory and voluntary sector partners, we are delivering a range of initiatives to prevent rough sleeping, and to help rough sleepers off the streets and into sustainable accommodation.
Our Rough Sleeping Co-ordinator is crucial to this work. In this role you will co-ordinate rough sleeping initiatives and service responses across the wider community, promoting joined up partnership working and best practice across statutory and voluntary services. You will also act as a point of contact for all rough sleeping related matters.
To succeed in this role, you will need:
- To be a problem solver
- Substantial experience of working with a range of statutory and voluntary organisations in a housing related context
- Sound understanding and working knowledge of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.
If you think you have what it takes to be successful in this role, even if you don’t meet all of the essential requirements, please apply. We would appreciate the opportunity to consider your application.
Why work for us?
East Suffolk Council is a great place to work and there are lots of benefits our employees can access. To find out more about why we are so proud of East Suffolk Council, take a look at our video on our site and hear why our employees think it is such a great place to work.
Here are some of the main benefits:
- Great opportunities for training and development
- Generous leave entitlement (equivalent to 24 days a year, increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays)
- Local government pension scheme
- Free car parking (for when you are working in the office)
- Discounts on mobile phones, computers, holiday and travel, fashion and clothing, health and beauty and many other products and services.
Please click on the APPLY button and you will be redirected to the Council’s careers page.
Candidates with experience of; Caseworker, Homelessness Officer, Rough Sleeping Case Worker, Support Outreach, Housing Needs Officer, Women’s Rough Sleeping Caseworker, Counsellor, Housing Officer, Housing Counsellor, Housing Options Officer, Homeless Support Caseworker, Community Support, Housing Support Officer, Housing Assistant, Housing Officer, Housing Services, Homeless Support, Social Housing Assistant, Supported Housing Officer, Social Housing Worker, Housing Administrator will also be considered for this role.
