Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Permanent
Do you enjoy working with people and enjoy making a difference?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Sheltered Housing Officer to become an asset to our Sheltered Housing Team and really make a difference. This will be by providing support, assistance and advice to vulnerable customers in our Sheltered Housing Scheme.
Working in a front line, friendly and welcoming team you will provide support and assistance to our residents in our sheltered schemes across the city.
We have a full time, permanent post working 37 hours per week. This will be on a rota basis which include weekends and bank holidays and and also to cover other staff absences. St Marks/Matthews Housing Office, however, you'll also be required to work at various sheltered housing locations around the city as and when required.
What you'll be doing
Within this varied role, not one day will be the same. You'll be working with vulnerable people daily, visiting their homes carrying out face to face interviews and making calls to residents living in the residential units. You'll also be required to visit various different residential units on a daily to ensure all Health & Safety standards and Fire Regulations are met within in the unit. In addition, you may be requested to cover other units in the city. Following on from this, you'll be required to report on anything untoward be and liaise with other sections and contractors to ensure all repairs are maintained. You'll have the ability to deal with and resolve difficult situations with tact and diplomacy within the unit and complete the reports and using the relevant database.
What you'll need
With experience working in a public face-to-face environment whether this be in their home or residential home, you'll have the ability to act sensitively to the needs of customers from a wide variety of backgrounds and have a caring, compassionate, and understanding approach. In addition, you'll have considerable experience working specifically with vulnerable people in a caring coordinating role. You'll be an organised individual who will be able to plan and prioritise own workload. You'll have general clerical experience and be able to make accurate written notes, observations and interviews with the ability to store these in a secure and confidential way.
You'll need to have access to your own transport to enable you to get to any of our 14 schemes across the city.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ramila at Ramila.Dhobi@leicester.gov.uk
Interviews / Assessments will take place week commencing 4th of August
Do you enjoy working with people and enjoy making a difference?
We are looking for an enthusiastic Sheltered Housing Officer to become an asset to our Sheltered Housing Team and really make a difference. This will be by providing support, assistance and advice to vulnerable customers in our Sheltered Housing Scheme.
Working in a front line, friendly and welcoming team you will provide support and assistance to our residents in our sheltered schemes across the city.
We have a full time, permanent post working 37 hours per week. This will be on a rota basis which include weekends and bank holidays and and also to cover other staff absences. St Marks/Matthews Housing Office, however, you'll also be required to work at various sheltered housing locations around the city as and when required.
What you'll be doing
Within this varied role, not one day will be the same. You'll be working with vulnerable people daily, visiting their homes carrying out face to face interviews and making calls to residents living in the residential units. You'll also be required to visit various different residential units on a daily to ensure all Health & Safety standards and Fire Regulations are met within in the unit. In addition, you may be requested to cover other units in the city. Following on from this, you'll be required to report on anything untoward be and liaise with other sections and contractors to ensure all repairs are maintained. You'll have the ability to deal with and resolve difficult situations with tact and diplomacy within the unit and complete the reports and using the relevant database.
What you'll need
With experience working in a public face-to-face environment whether this be in their home or residential home, you'll have the ability to act sensitively to the needs of customers from a wide variety of backgrounds and have a caring, compassionate, and understanding approach. In addition, you'll have considerable experience working specifically with vulnerable people in a caring coordinating role. You'll be an organised individual who will be able to plan and prioritise own workload. You'll have general clerical experience and be able to make accurate written notes, observations and interviews with the ability to store these in a secure and confidential way.
You'll need to have access to your own transport to enable you to get to any of our 14 schemes across the city.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page.
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ramila at Ramila.Dhobi@leicester.gov.uk
Interviews / Assessments will take place week commencing 4th of August