Specialist Housing Related Planner

SPECIALIST HOUSING RELATED PLANNER COMMUNITY RECOVERY TEAM, LINCOLNSHIRE, PERMANENT, 37HRS,GRADE 3 CORE £25,235, FTE

• Do you have some Support Work experience or lived experience?
• Are you an empathetic, compassionate and dynamic individual who wants to make a difference in your role?
• Do you want to be able to feel proud of who you work for?97% of our team said they feel just that, come and join us!

A rare and rewarding opportunity has arisen to join our Community Recovery Team in Lincolnshire as a Specialist Housing Related Planner. Co-located within our partner agency, Lincolnshire Recovery Partnership (LRP), you will play a key role in helping individuals overcome barriers to securing and maintaining stable accommodation. This vital role focuses on supporting adults engaged in substance misuse treatment, with a particular emphasis on addressing housing-related challenges.

Our housing specialist supports anyone who presents at LRP with a housing need, whether they are street homeless or struggling to maintain a tenancy. The specialist is also on hand to offer housing advice to LRP staff, enhancing the support we provide as a whole.

We have a dedicated budget that allows us to pay deposits and rent in advance to secure housing for our clients. Your support will directly contribute to clients progress towards healthier, more stable lives and improved overall wellbeing.

Duties and Responsibilities

• To provide support to Service Users in a safe and maintained environment, by support planning, reviewing and assessing their individual risks and needs.
• Be responsible for assessing and evaluating the needs of Service Users.
• To ensure that tasks identified in support plans are communicated to Support Workers and that these tasks are clear, appropriate and agreed with the Service User.
• To enable Service Users to understand the requirements of independent living including budgeting, maintenance and use of leisure time.
• To liaise appropriately with Key partners, stakeholders and service providers to ensure appropriate support is offered to all Service Users.

We are looking for people who can bring some of these skills and attributes to the team;

• Caring and compassionate
• Want to help others achieve their potential
• Want to be part of a fast-paced team
• Flexible to work within timescales
• Adaptable to change
• Some basic IT skills

In exchange well offer you a rich and varied work life where no two days are the same and you can have a genuine positive impact on someones life.

Why Join Us?

• We invest in you and encourage career progression providing a full induction, e-learning and classroom training, management development pathways, fully-funded professional qualifications and more.
• Your wellbeing is important to us. We emphasise wellbeing in all our working environments and employ a Wellbeing Practitioner to support our staff.
• Employee assistance programme, salary sacrifice schemes.
• Stakeholder pension, enhanced maternity and paternity leave and paid sick leave.
• 32 days holiday including Bank Holidays increasing with service.
• Paid DBS and Update Service.
• Loyalty awards and non-contributory life insurance.
• Equality and diversity is important to us: we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and cultures, and appreciate the variety of experience they provide. As one of Nottinghams few Disability Confident Leaders, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities.

Framework supports all employees to achieve a better work/life balance. Should you wish us to consider flexible working or job share as part of your application please state this on your application in the supporting statement section.

98% of the workforce in a recent staff survey said they were proud to work for Framework.

Framework is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Registered charity No: 1060941.

As a Disability Confident employer, we warmly encourage job applications from people with disabilities. Framework is committed to offering opportunities to people from diverse communities. If you have specific requirements or adjustments, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your application.

As an organisation we do not offer sponsorship for overseas candidates as our roles do not come under the Shortage Occupancy List (SOL) for the scheme. Any non-UK citizen who wishes to apply for a role within Framework would need to be able to provide valid RTW in the UK without the need for support from us.

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