Sanctuary Personnel is recruiting a dedicated Allocations Officer for the Homelessness Service in Kirklees, offering a competitive rate of £14.72 per hour. In this role, you’ll provide invaluable support to individuals facing housing challenges, working collaboratively to help them increase independence and achieve their goals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Person-Centred Support: Coordinate personalised support plans that foster independence and empower service users, supporting them to achieve long-term aspirations.
- Needs Assessment: Conduct assessments to determine service users' needs, ensuring timely and effective support for goal achievement.
- Partnership Collaboration: Work with partner agencies and stakeholders to ensure service users can access both community and national services, promoting a holistic approach to support.
- Intensive Support: Offer tailored support for clients with complex needs, setting individual targets and providing resources to help achieve long-term solutions.
- Goal Setting: Assist clients in identifying realistic goals, developing actionable plans, and ensuring commitment from all parties for successful outcomes.
- Flexibility and Empowerment: Adopt a flexible, individualised approach to empower service users and their families, building confidence, resilience, and independence.
- Record Keeping: Maintain accurate records to track performance and ensure the achievement of internal and external service delivery targets.
- Leadership: May include management responsibilities, such as direct line management, performance evaluations, or matrix management of a team.
- Continuous Improvement: Demonstrate a commitment to personal development and service improvement.
- Promote Diversity: Champion equal access and treatment across employment, service delivery, and communication, ensuring a positive, inclusive environment.
Requirements of the Allocations Officer:
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The Allocations officer must have completed HHSRS training (Housing, Health & Safety, Requirements, Standards) and be able to provide evidence of this.
If you’re committed to supporting vulnerable individuals and have the required qualifications, this is an excellent opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the community. Contact Alistair Guite at Sanctuary Personnel to apply or for more information
Regretfully we are only able to respond to experienced Social Work candidates who meet these requirements for this Social Work role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
