Housing Support Worker - Kingswood

As a Housing Support Worker, you will be a key member of the HomeChoice team, playing a role in helping to prevent homelessness by supporting people to access and maintain suitable accommodation. The HomeChoice service provides a high quality, comprehensive housing access service for households who are homeless or threatened with homelessness. Good housing can help to stabilise communities, reduce inequalities, improve safety and help reduce crime.

Regularly, you will provide specialist advice, housing support and resettlement services to households who are at risk of homelessness or need to access more suitable housing. As well as supporting our housing advice drop-in service, you will manage a caseload of households requiring housing related support. You will conduct initial interviews with individuals, assess and identify their requirements and monitor the households' progress towards resolving their housing needs. It will be key for you to help people explore appropriate housing options, assist people to become tenancy ready and work closely with landlords to secure suitable properties. It will be your responsibility to ensure all information is processed in accordance with procedures, regulations and codes of practice. As required, you will undertake home and site visits and deal sympathetically with customers. Taking the lead, working with landlords and other services, to support households secure accommodation in the private rented sector.

We require you to have experience in a similar role, either in housing or a specialist environment. You will demonstrate knowledge of relevant processes and have an awareness of regulations and codes of practice. Given the nature of this role, you will be able to engage and communicate effectively with a range of customers. You will be confident in your ability to liaise with outside agencies and organisations if required. You must be able to organise and manage your own caseload.

This role is hybrid, with a mixture of working at our office in Kingswood, working from home and site visits. Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a requirement of employment that a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) basic check is obtained. You will be expected to travel throughout the authority and surrounding area so you must have a full, valid driving licence with regular access to a vehicle or have an alternative means of travel.

As part of our benefits package, you will receive generous annual leave (pro rata), employee wellbeing support and you will have access to a range of staff discounts, including eye tests, travel, shopping and leisure activities. We recognise that our diverse team of skilled and dedicated people make us a great place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and ensure that individuals are selected, promoted and developed on the basis of their merits and abilities. We know our team work best when they have balance in their lives, and we offer genuine flexibility to help them achieve that work/life balance. We value our staff as individuals, investing in their careers and we are recognised for the quality, breadth and depth of our training and development offer, which helps make the greatest long-term difference in work.

Our teams at South Gloucestershire Council are making a real difference to the lives of people who live, work and learn here. We're building and shaping communities which people are proud of. We're working with the most vulnerable in our community to help them achieve what they want in life. We're investing in our schools to ensure every child and young person in South Gloucestershire achieves their full potential. We've achieved a great deal, but we need talented and dedicated people to ensure we continue to make a difference.