Overview
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
About the role
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.
The team works with individuals from when they are rough sleeping all the way through to tenancy, helping them to reintegrate into society. Once in a tenancy, they continue to work with those individuals for as long as they need the level of support Housing First can offer. The holistic approach means that individuals are supported with all aspects of their lives. The Navigator links in with probation, drug & alcohol services, and mental and physical health services to minimise criminal justice involvement, hospital admissions or the need for crisis interventions.
The team support individuals to maintain their tenancy, whilst encouraging them to get involved in their local community, supporting our vision of creating a fairer and more caring Cambridgeshire. This includes engaging residents in fun and meaningful activities to help build their skills, confidence and mental wellbeing, such as volunteering, fishing, pool, bowling and day trips out.
For more information about this opportunity please contact Andrew Moore by email: andrew.moore@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. Part time applicants will be considered.
Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Enhanced Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
About you
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.
We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities.
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.
http://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers
