Housing First Coordinator - Haringey Housing First (St Mungo's)
Housing First Co-ordinator – Haringey Housing First (St Mungo’s)
£30,708 - £33,952 P.A.
37.5hrs per week
Closing date: 10am, Monday 27 May
Interview and assessments on: Monday 10 June
At St Mungo’s our vision is that everyone has a place to call home and can fulfil their hopes and ambitions. As a homelessness charity and housing association our clients are at the heart of what we do. We provide a bed and support to more than 2,700 people a night who are either homeless or at risk, and work to end homelessness and rebuild lives.
Housing First is an innovative approach to supporting the most entrenched, excluded and hard to reach clients. It focuses on finding appropriate housing as quickly as possible and then addressing the issues that have contributed to an individual’s homelessness. This service is typically for clients with multiple needs or those who otherwise get stuck in supported accommodation services without achieving traditional milestones for move on.
We are looking to recruit a Housing First Co-ordinator to lead on the development and day-to-day delivery of the service, line manage Housing First workers, as well as oversee volunteers and/or peer mentors. You will also be responsible for liaising with other services and landlords / housing providers.
To succeed in this vital you will have experience of day-to-day management/supervision of staff or demonstrable willingness and capacity to develop management skills. You will also have the ability to manage complex and difficult situations in relation to people as well as the ability to liaise with and co-ordinate the work of a number of individuals and/or agencies; in order to achieve effective outcomes.
In return, we offer a range of benefits including a pension scheme, staff discounts scheme and initiatives to help you maintain a healthy work/life balance. We are also committed to providing our staff with a wide range of learning and development opportunities; in support of their personal and professional development.
How to Apply
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It is a requirement for this post that an enhanced DBS disclosure check will be undertaken for the successful candidate.
Please be advised that all appointments will be made on St Mungo’s current standard Terms and Conditions (T&Cs); this also applies to any internal candidates.
At St Mungo’s, equality, diversity and inclusion are central to the organisation's values and how we work. We are in the top 50 of Stonewall’s Workplace Equality Index 2019, we are also proud to have been awarded Personnel Today’s 2018 Diversity and Inclusion (Public Sector) award and we are a Disability Confident Employer. To ensure that our workforce reflects the diversity of our clients as well as the communities that we live and work within, we encourage and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) applicants, as they are under-represented within St Mungo’s at this level.