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7 Wesley Street
Swinton
Manchester
M27 6AD
Housing Options Advisor
Working Hours: 21 hours and 36 minutes per week - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
Grade: 3A, £15,289 - £16,645 per annum
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: Monday 25th October 2021, 23:59
About us
Salford has changed and is continuing to change: at the heart of our approach are ambitious plans to transform Salford into a modern global city where we can all make a real difference to the lives of Salford people. As a people centred and values based organisation Salford really is a great place to work. With a positive permission culture and can do approach, we embrace innovation and encourage performance.
We currently have an exciting vacancy within our team to enable us to continue to build on our success and also bring new experience, knowledge and ideas into the team.
About you
Your style and approach will reflect our values: you will be passionate about what you do always striving to improve things; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver a better service; you will take pride in always getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.
You will have excellent communication skills and will be able to manage customer expectations, working with customers to resolve their housing need. You will be able to work under pressure in a busy service, managing multiple demands and prioritising your workload to ensure that you meet statutory deadlines.
About the role
You
will work with households threatened with homelessness to try and prevent them
losing their accommodation; for those with no accommodation you will assist
them with finding new accommodation.
You
will work closely with accommodation providers including those in the private
sector to increase the supply of properties available to customers of the
service.
Role Profile - Housing Options Advisor.pdf
Why Work for Team Salford.pdf
About the benefits
You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values-based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things through our Salford 100 employee group and our employee led redesign approach. Your work-life balance and wellbeing are important to us so you will have access to a range of benefits including flexible working, green travel scheme, pension scheme, salary sacrifice schemes, a range of health and wellbeing options to suit your needs.
Safe working
We are a Covid-safe organisation and you will have an individual risk assessment when you join the organisation to ensure we effectively support your health and wellbeing throughout your employment.
Continuous service commitment
New employees can
now keep their service related benefits when moving between a whole host of
public sector organisations within Greater Manchester, which include: Councils,
NHS, Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue, Transport for Greater Manchester, as
well as many others.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to developing a culture which respects
individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of
background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited
disability confident employer and a Stonewall Diversity Champion. We understand
how hard it can be to combine caring for a loved one with work so we aim to
provide support and flexibility to balance family and caring responsibilities
with work
https://greater.jobs/content/9189/diversity-and-inclusion.
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