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Housing Advisor

Cardinal Hume Centre • Full-time • London, London, United Kingdom • £36k / year • 1m ago

Job title: Housing Advisor
Central London
Hours: Full time or part time (21-35 hours)
Salary: £36,000 (pro rata for part time)

‍At the Cardinal Hume Centre, we believe everyone should have the opportunity to live a full life, but we know that homelessness and poverty can wreck that potential. Too often homelessness at a young age is repeated and compounded in later years. Our renewed vision is to increase our focus on young people, children and their families. To value every individual, nurture their potential and help people thrive.

We are looking to recruit a Housing Advisor to provide a structured advice and information service to clients of the centre in housing law, housing options and aspects of welfare benefits that relate to housing and homelessness. This is an exciting role in our Advice team that will manage a specialist housing caseload and provide emergency housing advice to clients in crisis. You will work closely with other teams in the centre to ensure clients are offered an integrated holistic service. You will also build and maintain good relationships with statutory and other partners and to work together with them to get the best outcomes for our clients and to monitor unmet need locally so that this can be addressed.

This is just one of the new posts we are recruiting as part of a new project to support families experiencing homelessness in and around Westminster. It follows a report we published last year on the lived experience of families living in temporary accommodation. We are delighted to have secured funding to help us build on this research and pilot different approaches to reach those most in need. We want to develop support that not only meets emergency needs but can enable longer term outcomes. Our aim is to build the case for positive change and reduce future rates of homelessness and poverty. In this role you can play a part in designing, testing and evidencing different approaches with a team of colleagues that cross different advice specialisms and professional family support.

You will join a Centre with a distinct service offer. In our staff survey last year 94 % of colleagues said they enjoy the work they do, and 95% felt they make a difference. Our central London location and generous supporter base is helping us build our impact and influence through a strengthened ability to evidence the impact of our work. We work hard to give our advisors the time and autonomy to achieve the greatest change for our clients.

Please refer to the job descriptionfor further information. If you have any questions or would like to have a confidential discussion regarding the role please contact our HR Advisor, Tara Glazik at recruitment@cardinalhumecentre.org.uk

The Centre is an equal opportunities employer. We are always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us and help improve the lives of homeless young people, insecurely housed families and their children. We particularly want to encourage people from under-represented groups in the not-for-profit sector to step forward and apply to work with us. We require our staff to recognise the valuable role that volunteers play in the work of the Centre and to welcome and support volunteers with whom they work.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We require job applicants, staff and volunteers to complete a criminal records self-declaration and undertake a DBS check. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. We are unable to sponsor visas.

Benefits
‍·       26 days’ leave after one year’s service rising to 28 days’ leave after two years’ service (pro rata for part time staff)
·       Pension: stakeholder pension scheme and we will match employee contributions up to a maximum of 6%.
·       Life assurance cover(after probation passed)
·       Season ticket loan
·       Training and development opportunities

‍How to apply
‍Send your cv and cover letter to recruitment@cardinalhumecentre.org.uk
In your cv and cover letter, please outline how you meet the requirements of the role and why you would like to work for us. You must account for any gaps in your employment history.

‍Closing date for applications: There is no closing date for this role. We will be evaluating applications as we receive them, so if you are interested in the position, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible

‍First interviews will be held online.

‍Please note that a test will form part of the interview, if you are shortlisted details will be provided to you in advance of the interview.

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