Overview
We have an exciting role on offer within our Access and Safeguarding service as a Rough Sleeper Community Interventions Officer.
About Us
At Middlesbrough, we truly live our values and incorporate them into everything we do. We are passionate about improving the lives of our residents, focused on achieving best outcomes and creative in the way we work with customers, ensuring they get the best support available. Accessing Change Together integrates council staff and partner organisations and provides a range of support and interventions in relation to service users who need support with Housing Support and Homelessness, Domestic Abuse and Substance misuse. Accessing Change Together means that lots of support services are working together and using a shared case load management system.
This will make it easier for service users to get access to services they need so they receive the right support and easier for council staff and partner organisations to work together and share information to improve outcomes for service users. It is recognised that sometimes service users need help in a number of support areas. Working with a multi-disciplinary approach, the teams aim to react quickly to those needs, developing risk assessments and support plans to address those needs appropriately.
We are looking to recruit someone with the skills, passion and resilience to work creatively with service users who are need ongoing support to prevent Homelessness New staff joining Middlesbrough can expect a warm welcome from the teams, our Director and Chief Executive and full induction process.
To be successful in this role you need a good standard of education to GCSE (A-C English and Maths) or equivalent relevant qualification.
You will have a responsibility for working alongside other services including Adult & Children’s Social Care and Public Health. You will also work as part of a small team working with people who are at risk of and / or experiencing rough sleeping.
Please note this is a fixed term post ending on 31st July 2027 in the Community Interventions team.
If this is you, this may be the opportunity you are looking for!
In return we can offer:
- Generous leave entitlement with an option to purchase up to 10 additional days annual leave per year.
- Excellent pension plus top-up options.
- Staff networks run by our staff for our staff.
- Flexible working (dependent on job role).
- Electric car lease scheme.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Employee benefits portal including Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programme.
- Staff lottery.
- Travel and car parking schemes.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities.
- Fantastic career progression opportunities and lots more!
If you would like to talk through this opportunity further, please contact, Jemma Jones, Team Manager Community Interventions on 01642 728199 or Claire Moore, Domestic Abuse Strategic Lead on 01642 728691
The above post is subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
We operative a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for applicants that can show they meet all the essential criteria and have indicated they have a disability, are a looked after young person, care leaver or a veteran.
Salary: £30,060 – £31,586
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
