Independent Living Housing Advisor
Fixed Term / Secondment
Full Time / Flexible Arrangements Available
Up to £39,934 per annum
Location: Chelmsford
Working Style: Anywhere worker
This is a 12-month fixed term contract or secondment opportunity. External secondments from other local authorities can be considered.
Interviews will be held on 21st May 2024.
The Opportunity
This role is part of the Independent Living Team based in the Older Person’s Commissioning Team working across the County Council’s responsibilities for Adult Social Care services and delivering the vision “Putting communities at the heart of Adult Social Care, enabling people to live their lives to the fullest”.
Essex County Council has an ambitious Extra Care Housing Programme to provide over 700 new contemporary homes for Older People and people with housing, care and support needs. The Extra Care Housing Programme has ambitions to achieve savings for adult social care budgets.
The Independent Living Housing Advisor will draw together and co-ordinate the development and occupancy of Extra Care Housing across Essex, delivered in partnership with registered providers. You’ll work as part of a small team of enthusiastic and committed individuals who have housing and social care experience.
Why Join Us?
We are changing the way we think, the way we work, and the ways in which we deliver our services. We understand how important flexibility and wellbeing is for our colleagues and are immensely proud of our flexible and hybrid working options. We welcome applications from those looking for full time, condensed hours, 9-day fortnight, and part time working arrangements. Further conversations around working pattern can be discussed at interview.
As an ‘Anywhere Worker’ you will be able to undertake this role on a hybrid basis, with the expectation to be office based for team collaboration and training around 2 days per month.
We also offer…
- A wide range of learning and development opportunities
- IT equipment and home-working equipment supplied.
- 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, rising with service
- Local Government Pension Scheme. View Key Facts and FAQ’s about the LGPS.
- Life assurance of three times annual salary
- Access to hundreds of discounts and benefits through Essex Rewards
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to free and confidential information, support, and guidance from a team of highly qualified professionals.
- Employee Networks – communities to support you, connect you and help influence change at ECC
Whatever you want to achieve in your career, you can do it here.
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Service/Functional Accountabilities
- Responsible for the co-ordination of the delivery of the Independent Living programme plan of housing growth of over 700 additional homes for vulnerable people across the county
- Delivers an agreed number of Extra Care pipeline schemes across the county.
- Builds strong working relationships with a range of partners across key localities, acting as a trusted partner to deliver the Independent Living Programme
- Positively co-ordinates the quality housing development of individual schemes working with specialist technical partners.
- Attends site and progress meetings to ensure schemes are developed in accordance with the approved Extra Care Design Guide
- Works closely with Registered Providers, Adult Social Care, Contracts and Commissioning teams to ensure positive and efficient occupancy of schemes, minimising the risk of voids.
- Co-ordinates and attends scheme referral/nominations panels with partners to ensure the successful occupancy of schemes.
- Maintains tools with which develop, monitor and analyse the effectiveness of Extra Care schemes and the pipeline.
- Contributes to and maintains all Extra Care communication channels including updating marketing materials, websites and events, working with internal and external partners.
- Co-ordinates the Extra Care project plan, monitoring and implementing agreed actions.
- Works collaboratively, building wide internal and external networks, proposing constructive solutions to progress the Extra Care programme.
- Obtains feedback from residents, staff and partners on the effectiveness of the programme.
About You
We are looking for someone who has a passion and commitment to delivering Extra Care Housing. For this one-year fixed term post we are particularly keen to hear from applicants who have housing development experience in order to strengthen this aspect of our work. We look forward to receiving applications that demonstrate the following skills, knowledge and experience:
- Educated to A level or equivalent by experience
- Experience of housing for vulnerable people (operations, management or policy/strategy)
- Experience/Understanding of housing development
- Understanding and knowledge of housing market
- Experience of working in a local authority or registered provider housing environment
- Understanding/Experience of the issues/opportunities for vulnerable people
- Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area
Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process.
We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.
What you should do next
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply via the Working for Essex website. If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email Abbie.Mollison@essex.gov.uk.
To read more about us please visit: Adult Social Care
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