About the role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to gain more experience within the Local Authority and develop your knowledge and understanding of Homelessness?
The Cambridgeshire Housing First Project require 1 full time (37 hours) Business Officer to support the team. The post is initially funded for 1 year with the expectation that it will be extended to 18 months to cover an internal secondment.
Housing First is a housing and support approach which:
Gives people who have experienced homelessness and chronic health and social care needs a stable home from which to rebuild their lives.
Provides intensive, person-centred, holistic support that is open-ended.
Places no conditions on individuals; however, they should desire to have a tenancy.
Based on seven principles, Housing First helps to ensure that individuals have a right to a home, have the choice about where they live, and are supported to identify their strengths and goals.
Housing First provision relies on staff being committed to the ethos, applying a proactive ‘can do, will do’ approach, that focuses on the long-term goal of supporting people to access and sustain tenancies and maximising connectivity with the local community.
The Cambridgeshire Housing First Project supports individuals facing multiple disadvantage across the county who have experienced long term homelessness and have been unsuccessful in navigating traditional homeless housing pathways.
Your role will be supporting the work of the Housing First team as well as completing various administration tasks.
If you are interested in this opportunity and have questions about the role, please contact Andrew Moore, Housing First Service Manager
andrew.moore@cambridgeshire,gov.uk
The closing date for applications is Sunday 1 December 2024 at Midnight.
What will you be doing?
This role will include minuting team and client meetings, managing a team inbox and dealing with finance, e.g. raising invoices, tracking grant funding and attending finance meetings. The team works alongside Changing Futures team and the expectation is you will at times be supporting the team with administration and minute taking.
You will need to have the ability to summarise and produce information in a concise manner. You will need to be flexible in your approach to work, as this is a varied role. You will need good administration skills and the ability to prioritise. Along with diary management, you will need excellent customer service and communication skills as you will be liaising with external agencies and suppliers.
You will be expected to work on your own initiative, keep calm under pressure and work to deadlines. You should have a methodical and concise approach to tasks and the ability to prioritise workloads effectively. You will need a comprehensive understanding of Microsoft packages (Word and Excel) and be able to use databases.
About you
Please evidence on your supporting statement how you meet the criteria of the person specification. Please note, you do not need to meet all the essential criteria to be able to apply. We are looking for a person who is keen to learn and have a genuine interest in homelessness and the challenges faced by the individuals we support.
Our benefits
We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage…
- A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family
- Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances
- Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings
- Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth
- Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day
- Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network
- Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
- An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes+
Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.
About us
Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.
Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions.
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Some examples of adjustments could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch.
Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.
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