Grade: F scp 17 £31,022 to scp 23 £34,434
Contract: Fixed Term until 31 March 2026, 37 hours per week.
Role specifics: Designated essential car user post, applicants must hold a full UK driving licence.
Unfortunately, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
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The Role
The Housing Options Officer (Rough Sleeping) will provide a range of interventions as key worker to support rough sleepers through key transitions from the street, through respite and recovery into longer term accommodation and enabling them to greatly improved health and wellbeing.
You will work with a wide range of partner agencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team including outreach, navigators, health, addiction and mental health professionals and the voluntary sector. The role offers great opportunities to support people with trauma informed approach and principles of co-production to help them to positive longer-term lives and improved outcomes.
About You
As Housing Option Officer (Rough Sleeping) you will have excellent communication skills that will enable you to build trust and rapport with people with often challenging and complex needs.
You will work effectively with partner agencies to support people through key transitions whilst maintaining a positive supportive approach focussing on harm reduction and supporting people through relapse to positive outcomes.
You’ll work creatively with other professionals to best support people and will engage in processes of reflective practice and co-production to ensure our services remain client focussed and personalised to individual need.
You will work flexibly throughout the week including early morning, evenings and occasionally weekends to ensure engagement and deliver effective outreach.
About Us
This is your opportunity to join us at an exciting time as we have strong ambitions for the borough.
Bolton is a great place to work. We are a welcoming organisation that wants to contribute to a place where people feel active, connected and prosperous. We are passionate about improving the outcomes and experience of Bolton people. We want Bolton to be a vibrant place built on strong cohesive communities, successful businesses and healthy, engaged residents.
As an employer we want to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment, by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits, including discounts and exclusive gym membership prices and salary sacrifice schemes. In addition, we offer a generous annual leave allowance, flexible work opportunities, access to a Pension Scheme, as well as a range of employee wellbeing and support services.
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Within Greater Manchester, local authorities have made a commitment to improve the employment opportunities for people with disabilities, care leavers, carers, and ex-military personnel. Please see greater.jobs for further information before you apply.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of vulnerable adults and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. An Enhanced DBS with check of relevant barred list is therefore required for this post.
This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
This organisation has signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. That means we will recognise your continuous or ‘unbroken’ service in any Greater Manchester local authority or NHS organisation that has signed the commitment, Transport for Greater Manchester, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service or Greater Manchester Combined Authority, giving you access to our service-related benefits. Please see the home page of greater.jobs for more information.
For more information about working for Bolton Council, please see greater.jobs; for advice and support with your application, contact recruitment@bolton.gov.uk