Safer Neighbourhoods Specialist
Employment Type
Full time
Location
Watson Building, 4 Renshaw Street, Liverpool, L1 2SA
Job Type
Neighbourhood Management
What you can expect from us
- We offer a competitive salary of £31,150 (£17.12 per hour) – Pay to increase to £32,863.25 from April 2023 (£18.06 per hour)
- 32 days annual leave plus bank holidays a total of 40 days paid holiday per annum which is equivalent to 8 weeks.
- Opportunity to further increase annual leave with service or though the holiday purchase scheme.
- Immediate entry to our Pension scheme (matched contributions up to 10%)
- A great flexible working environment, with a range of family friendly policies
- Simply Health cash plan with financial benefits and the option to extend to your family.
Cover includes dental, optical, physiotherapy, 24HR private GP access and much more.
- Paid leave for absence including sickness, maternity, paternity, and adoption leave.
- Access of up to £150 annually through the ‘Learning for life’ scheme
- Access to a wide range of discounts and cash back offers, ranging from retail and automotive to holidays and cycle to work scheme.
- Develop your career with support and access to training and qualifications.
About the role
We are looking for Safer Neighbourhoods Specialist – (2 posts) on a permanent basis to join our Safer Neighbourhoods team. This role is based as a Merseyside – home based role, where there is no daily requirement to attend an office with the flexibility to attend as required.
The purpose of the role is to provide a consistent approach to community safety, blending prevention, diversion and enforcement in order to help communities deal with potential and actual anti-social behaviour (ASB).
- Provide an effective contact for customers reporting ASB, investigating and responding to all ASB complaints.
- Manage a caseload including initial assessment, investigation and legal recourse.
- Undertaking research and investigative opportunities for action and best practice and seek to maximise effective use of resources for safer neighbourhoods work.
- Make best use of legal resources, conducting court advocacy, making maximum use of in house resource and liaising with legal services providers where necessary.
To learn more about the role please view our day in the life video: https://youtu.be/_asAhRF4WuQ
What we require?
- Have knowledge of housing regulations/law and County Court rules and relevant Government legislation for tackling anti-social behaviour issues.
- Experience of developing partnership working with support agencies, local authorities and community groups.
- A good understanding of the social, economic and political context in the neighbourhoods in which we operate.
- Educated to GCSE standard or have equivalent qualification / experience.
About Onward
Onward Homes is one of the largest registered providers of social housing in the North West, with 35,000 properties across the region.
We believe that everyone deserves a place to call their own, which is why we’re committed to building 500 new homes each year. We do more than just provide a roof over our customers’ heads, we’re here to make a real difference.
In addition to creating positive spaces for our customers we continuously strive to create a positive and progressive workspace to enable our colleagues to achieve their full potential.
We embrace diversity and strive for diverse teams to create an inclusive culture which enables Onward to thrive and be representative of the communities that we serve. We want to ensure that everybody has an opportunity to be part of our recruitment processes and will therefore make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to assist you with our recruitment process via the email address below.
If candidates have any concerns / questions in relation to the role at any stage of the recruitment and selection process they can contact the HR team on HumanResourcesTeam@onward.co.uk and a member of the HR Team will be in touch.
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