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Salary: £33,366 - £37,035 per annum Grade: I Contract: Permanent Hours: Full Time contract, Monday - Friday, 37 hours per week. In addition would be expected to be part of an out of hours standby rota to respond to homelessness emergencies within the locality area (additional financial incentives for participation). Location: Scarborough area, although may be asked to work in other locations in North Yorkshire from time to time. You are expected to hold a valid UK drivers' licence and have access to your own vehicle that can be used for work purposes. Your chance to be at the forefront of homelessness prevention within an ambitious team working towards the start of a new five year Homeless and Rough Sleeping strategy for the Council. About the Council and the Service Are you driven by a passion for making a real difference in people's lives? North Yorkshire Council is offering an exciting opportunity to join our Housing Needs Service as a Housing Options Officer . In this pivotal role, you'll be at the forefront of preventing homelessness, providing expert advice, and guiding individuals and families through challenging housing situations to secure stable, long-term solutions. You'll play a crucial part in transforming lives, supporting vulnerable households during difficult times, and collaborating with partners to ensure the best outcomes. If you're looking for a rewarding career where your skills and compassion can create lasting change, we'd love for you to bring your talents to North Yorkshire Council. This is an exciting opportunity to work within our Housing Options team at North Yorkshire Council. The team is part of the Housing Needs Service, which will lead on delivering the Council's Homeless and Rough Sleeping strategy and in delivering the Council's bold ambitions around homeless prevention. The role This role will provide an opportunity to be at the forefront of delivering homeless prevention and will play a key role within the team. You will provide a full housing options advice and homeless service to those clients who are in housing need, fulfilling the Council's statutory duties, powers and functions under the relevant homeless legislation. You will play a key role in supporting the objectives of the Council's Homelessness Strategy and prevent homelessness wherever possible and assist households to achieve sustainable housing solutions. Where required, you will participate in an out of hours standby rota to respond to homelessness emergencies within the locality area, including incidents in temporary accommodation. You will have knowledge or understanding of current housing issues and solutions in respect of homeless people and experience of assessing need and offering housing advice to the public to achieve effective solutions to housing problems as well as an awareness and knowledge and commitment to equality and diversity and Health and Safety legislation and of safeguarding responsibilities. You will have a track record of dealing with the public in a customer service/advisory capacity . Also the ability to plan, allocate and evaluate workloads, determining work methods to achieve objectives and to seek, evaluate and organise information to aid decision making. You will be able to have difficult conversations and have professional curiosity in your ability to assess customer's circumstances and be able to exchange information to solve problems and make decisions through leading and contributing to meetings and group discussions to solve problems and make decisions. Who We're Looking For: To be successful in this role: Essential • You will bring a passion for delivering high quality services to our customers, often those in the most need, which will meet the needs of our vulnerable communities. • Excellent communication and negotiation skills are a must: The ability to exchange information effectively with colleagues, customers, and external agencies to solve problems and make decisions. The role also requires the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team. • IT Skills: Proficiency in using IT systems to manage case files. • Customer Service Skills: Experience in providing housing advice, assessing needs, and offering solutions in a client-focused manner. This is a very challenging role that requires someone who is resilient, has empathy and patience to deal with clients in difficult situations. Desirable • Knowledge &amp; Experience: Understanding of current housing issues, homelessness legislation, landlord-tenant law, and safeguarding responsibilities. Working for us When you join us, you are entitled to our outstanding benefits and wellbeing plan as part of your position. • Holiday entitlement: starts at 28 days rising to 34 days (pro-rata) per year with continued service, plus public holidays. • Pension: save for your retirement with our generous local government pension scheme. • Fitness &amp; Rewards: Fitness discounts with various gyms across the county. Stay on top of your game and save £££. Lifestyle Savings: explore a huge range of discounts to help you save money across hundreds of the UK's favourite high-street and online retailers. If you would like to learn more about this role and for an informal conversation please contact Chris Brown, Housing Options Manager (Scarborough) via <a href="mailto:chris.brown@northyorks.gov.uk" target="_blank">chris.brown@northyorks.gov.uk</a> or on (01723) 232519 or Sue Thurling, Housing Options and Support Team Leader (Scarborough) via <a href="mailto:sue.thurling@northyorks.gov.uk" target="_blank">sue.thurling@northyorks.gov.uk</a> or on (01723 232420. Applying is easy, simply click on apply now, register your details, remove your personal details from your CV and upload by midnight on Friday 27 June 2025. Key Documents Job Description Total Rewards Brochure Key Dates: Closing Date: Friday 27 June 2025. Interview Date: Week commencing 7 July 2025. NYC are committed to directly recruiting staff and will not accept applications nor services from agency suppliers in respect of our vacancies. We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. North Yorkshire Councils' purpose is to deliver services and facilities to the diverse residents and visitors of North Yorkshire. To ensure we deliver inclusive services we strive to have a diverse workforce where everybody can be themselves by respecting differences and embedding equality of opportunity. We celebrate diversity and recognise each other's contributions; we therefore welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. Apply now

Housing Options Officer

The job itself Are you passionate about shaping the future of local communities? We're looking for a dynamic and visionary Forward Planning and Housing Strategy Manager to lead our efforts in creating sustainable, inclusive, and vibrant neighbourhoods across the East Riding of Yorkshire. Based in our Planning and Economic Regeneration service, you'll be responsible for overseeing the preparation of our Local Plan, from evidence gathering and consultation through to examination and adoption. The council has recently adopted our revised Local Plan, covering the period to 2039, and an immediate priority for the new postholder will be to set the strategic direction of the next Plan, identifying innovative approaches to plan-making whilst meeting challenging national and local housing and development targets. The role also has strategic responsibility for housing including the development of our local Housing Strategy and associated policies relating to homelessness, empty homes and affordable homes, among others. Building strong relationships with registered providers and other key stakeholders is essential to ensure that our residents can access a range of housing options. Managing a team of around 20 staff you'll be based in County Hall in the beautiful market town of Beverley. The Council promotes agile and home working, allowing a flexible approach to working arrangements. The post will offer the successful candidate the chance to work for a proactive local authority that genuinely supports plan-led local growth, whilst also supporting and advising the newly formed Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority on strategic planning matters. You will be able to manage the diverse needs of a large geographic area with many different types of settlements and communities, giving the opportunity to get involved in a broad range of urban, rural, coastal and housing work. The successful candidate will have a formal qualification in either housing or planning, along with extensive experience in either one or both fields. Membership of a professional body would be an advantage.

Forward Planning and Housing Strategy Manager

Description The job itself We are excited to be able to offer the opportunity to join the Housing, Transportation and Public Protection team working in an administrative role for Business Support Team. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic and committed to delivering a quality service to this busy and diverse customer facing service. You should have a flexible approach and the ability to adapt in a busy and changing environment. We are seeking someone who is customer focussed, has excellent communications skills, and has experience of call handling or similar customer contact work. Confidentiality and ability to deal with sensitive matters is required as is the ability to work as a part of a team NB this post is currently office based. Job Outline and Employee specification

Business Support Officer

Overview Change Grow Live are a charity dedicated to the belief that we can make a difference to our Service Users lives, offering support and respect in a safe environment, treating each user as an individual and working with them to find the right treatment and care options. Our core values are 'Be open, be compassionate and be bold' and our team members apply these daily to achieve our mission of helping people change the direction of their lives, grow as individuals, and live life to its full potential. We have an exciting opportunity for a Recovery Coordinator to join our Non Opiate Team in Hull, who has the skills and experience to assess and engage with our service users, ensuring that they access the right intervention at the right time, in a way that best meets their needs. Where: Hull, Yorkshire Full-Time Hours: 37.5 per week Full-Time Salary Range: £27,861.26 - £32,002.35 (based on full time hours, pro rata for part time) *Please note: Full-time hours at Change Grow Live are 37.5 hours per week. For part-time roles, the salary and payments will be pro rata based on contracted hours. Responsibilities About the role: <ul><li>Supporting service users from point of entry into the service and through their treatment/recovery journey </li></ul><ul><li>Providing screening, assessment, and recovery planning and onward referral </li></ul><ul><li>Reducing drug and alcohol related harm to service users and the wider community </li></ul><ul><li>Promoting carer, service user and community involvement </li></ul><ul><li>Providing advocacy for access to partnership services </li></ul><ul><li>Working with service users to support social (re)integration, enabling them to lead meaningful and purposeful lives: promoting recovery, resilience, peer support and self-determination </li></ul><ul><li>Research, design and prepare subject matter and materials for groups / pods. </li></ul><ul><li>Deliver structured content within group settings to service users at various stages of recovery </li></ul><ul><li>Engage with debriefing and evaluations with co-facilitators after groups/pods have taken place, reviewing progress and identifying concerns with service users </li></ul><ul><li>Tailor specific workshops around the needs of the service users, such as: anger management, sleep disorders, relationships, etc </li></ul>About you: <ul><li>Have a strong understanding of substance misuse issues and experience of working within a similar field </li></ul><ul><li>Experience of working with groups/pods and managing group dynamics, such as conflict or challenging behaviour. </li></ul><ul><li>Be an excellent communicator, both verbal and written with good IT skills </li></ul><ul><li>Proactive and able to work on own initiative with excellent time management and prioritising skills </li></ul><ul><li>Have a good working knowledge of mental health interventions, services, and good practice </li></ul><ul><li>Be a supportive team player with strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in partnership with a wide range of professionals, agencies, and internal/external stakeholders </li></ul><ul><li>Ability to manage change successfully in a way that prioritises the needs of service users </li></ul><ul><li>Understand the importance of information governance processes and commit to follow and apply all necessary safeguards </li></ul><ul><li>Seek out learning opportunities to improve and broaden your professional knowledge and skills and to contribute and oversee the learning and development of others </li></ul>What we will give to you: <ul><li>25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) rising by 1 day for each years' service "Capped at 30 days" </li></ul><ul><li>Paid 'Wellness' hour each week along with a 'Wellness' hub and Employee Assist Programme </li></ul><ul><li>Contributory pension scheme </li></ul><ul><li>Several benefits incl. discounts for shopping, cinema, holidays, etc. </li></ul><ul><li>A friendly and supportive team </li></ul><ul><li>Training, career development &amp; progression opportunities </li></ul><ul><li>Generous Refer-a-Friend Scheme </li></ul>Please ensure that when completing your application form and supporting statement, you reflect on the details outlined in the job description. This will help us understand how your skills and experiences align with the requirements of the role. If you require sponsorship, please note that this role is not eligible for a Health and Care Worker visa. You may be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route but must meet the minimum salary requirements for the role. You can find out more here Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (<a href="http://www.gov.uk" target="_blank">www.gov.uk</a>) If this sounds like you and you would like to begin your journey with Change Grow Live, then we would love to talk to you. Salary Range (pro rata if part time) CGL points 23 to 28 (£27,861.26 - £32,002.35) ILW / OLW /Fringe N/A - Outside London Weighting Area Closing Date 16/6/2025 If you have any questions on this opportunity that you would like to talk through please contact us using the below details: Becky Harrison | <a href="mailto:Becky.harrison@cgl.org.uk" target="_blank">Becky.harrison@cgl.org.uk</a> | 07786552361 This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check at an enhanced level.

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