Housing Solutions Admin Worker – Domestic Abuse Service
Salary: £24,–£28, per annum depending on experience
Working Hours: 35 per week (part time requests will be considered)
Contract: until 31st March with potential for extension
Location: Birmingham (hybrid working between office and home based on experience and service need)
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Cranstoun offer a wide range of services across England, including community-based and residential substance use services, supported housing, specialist services for young people and families and carers, and domestic abuse services.
Our skilled and compassionate teams work with service users, families, and communities, helping them to make positive changes. We’ve been making a difference since by combining our expertise with innovative approaches and putting people at the heart of what we do.
Our Domestic Abuse Housing Solutions Service provides housing-related support for individuals threatened by domestic abuse. We support people to find suitable alternative accommodation and emergency accomodation. We also work with key strategic partners to help address other social related issues, such as benefit/welfare reform processes, helping to maximise people’s incomes, signposting to relevant primary and secondary health care services and more.
As Housing Support Admin Worker, the successful applicant will be expected to
1. Respond to service communications (telephone/email) in a professional manner, ensuring all communication and related tasks are dealt with promptly and efficiently
2. Resolve email and telephone queries at first contact to deliver a quick, hassle-free service for our service users.
3. Ensure service communications and admin services are delivered effectively at all necessary times, working with colleagues to ensure coverage and safeguarding of clients throughout the working day
4. Greet and welcome service users and others who attend our drop-in
5. Provide administrative support to the team as directed by the line manager
6. Enter data onto client database
7. Support the management team in the production of reports
8. Attend and take minutes of various meetings when required
9. Action and respond to relevant queries from all admin email inboxes
10. Establish and maintain appropriate administration and electronic record keeping systems
11. Ensure adequate and timely preparation of meeting room pre and post meetings
Support the general office to be clutter free and in line with health and safety
Female applicants only. Due to the nature and context of the work, having the particular protected characteristic is an occupational requirement and the application of the requirement is a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.
For informal discussion please contact Maria Cunningham or Safural Giwa in the first instance.
Post holder will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check against relevant barred lists.
To apply for this role, please submit your CV, along with a Cover Letter outlining your skills, experience, relevant qualifications and values fit for the role to. Please ensure you clearly state the Job Reference Number on your Cover Letter.
Closing Date: 4th May (however we may close earlier if we find suitable applicants)