Job description

Are you looking for a role that offers you the chance to change people’s lives for the better?

We are offering flexibility with either a Full Time position (37 hours each week, ie 5 days), or Part Time (from 22.2 hours each week, ie 3 days or more). Please state your preference on your application.

The Salary Range is £35,766.00 – £40,061.00 per annum, which includes an additional £4,000 per annum MFS (pro rata for part-time hours) with a review in 2 years. The salary range without the supplement is £31,766 - £36,061 per annum.

This is a fixed term contract until March 2025.

A secondment opportunity will also be considered for internal candidates, initially until March 2024 extendable until March 2025. Please specify if you wish to be considered for a secondment.

Join us to make a positive difference in Mendip by reducing the number of rough sleepers and finding living solutions for the most entrenched and vulnerable.

We offer a flexible working environment with hybrid working from home and the office, travel and work remotely across the area with occasional agile working around out of office working hours.

You might be at the point in your career where you’re looking for something new. An opportunity to step into a more strategic role, where you can lead a team of specialists (around 7 of them) and influence and shape a service.

You’re comfortable with the unknown (you know that this kind of work can bring different challenges every day), and you can use your communication and problem-solving skills to find positive outcomes.

With services expanding and new projects to implement, we might just be the right place for you to grow your career.

We deliver a vital prevention focused homelessness and housing advice service to rough sleepers and non-bricks and mortar communities (people living in vehicles).

Here at Mendip, we are 100% committed to preventing rough sleeping and homelessness whenever possible, creating local solutions to minimise rough sleeping and find appropriate housing and other solutions to roadside living.

This requires a strategic integrated systems approach across multiple statutory agencies and organisations including housing, health and community related service providers.

That’s where you come in.

You will manage outcomes focused homelessness and housing options services for people sleeping rough or living in vehicles across the district – understanding the challenges they face and ensuring that all agencies take co-ordinated approach to finding a positive outcome for them.

To do this, you will use you experience of managing outcomes focused homelessness, rough sleeping or similar services.

Ideally you understand homelessness legislation, have specialist knowledge of the different types of people we work with and stay up to date with local and national strategies to prevent and tackle rough sleeping.

And if you’re not quite there yet?

Well, we also invite applications from people with a mix of directly relevant experience and transferrable skills from other related sectors and disciplines. So, this could still be the role for you.

If you want to have an informal discussion about the role itself, then please contact Jan Errington on 07919 397043 or Tricia Ashfield on 07721 816704.

And if you feel you know all you need to know? Then please apply online by completing the attached application form.

Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 5th December 2022.

Provisional interview date: Thursday 15th December 2022.

The post will be subject to a disclosure request through the Disclosure and Barring Service.

A job description (including person specification) is attached.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Fixed term contract

Salary: £35,766.00-£40,061.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Flexitime
• Free parking
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
The Government Guidelines are in place in the Council's offices.

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Shepton Mallet

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