Supported Housing Assistant
Notting Hill Genesis
Gayton Rd, Harrow HA1 2HN, UK
Published today
Social care
Temporary
Job Introduction
What you'll do
As a Supported Housing Assistant, you'll play a vital role in helping residents feel safe, supported, and connected within our schemes. Working alongside Supported Housing Officers, you'll provide day-to-day assistance, carry out wellbeing checks, and help new residents settle in. Your focus will be on creating a caring environment where people can thrive, while ensuring compliance with health and safety and housing standards.
How you'll do it
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
Essential:
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now!
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview and assessment.
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to an Enhanced check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
What you'll do
As a Supported Housing Assistant, you'll play a vital role in helping residents feel safe, supported, and connected within our schemes. Working alongside Supported Housing Officers, you'll provide day-to-day assistance, carry out wellbeing checks, and help new residents settle in. Your focus will be on creating a caring environment where people can thrive, while ensuring compliance with health and safety and housing standards.
How you'll do it
- Welcome new residents and ensure they settle in comfortably.
- Carry out regular welfare and health and safety checks in line with policy.
- Identify support needs and signpost residents to appropriate services.
- Report repairs and maintain communal areas to create inviting spaces.
- Monitor contractors and contribute to continuous improvement of services.
- Promote safeguarding principles and attend multi-agency meetings as required.
- Support tenancy sustainment by helping residents understand their rights and obligations.
- Assist with void property management and lettings procedures.
- Coordinate on-site activities that enrich residents' lives and foster community.
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.
Essential:
- Experience providing customer-focused support in social care or social housing.
- Good understanding of the needs of vulnerable residents.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and apply relevant legislation and best practice.
- Effective IT skills, including basic MS Office.
- Numeracy and literacy skills equivalent to NVQ2.
- Social care or similar qualification relevant to the customer group.
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now!
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to interview and assessment.
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
Should a redeployee apply for this role, their application will be considered before any others.
This role is not eligible for sponsorship.
This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to an Enhanced check via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.