Resident Welfare Officer - #142200

Annual salary: up to £28,917.00

Resident Welfare Officer

Northeast Region

Full-time, Permanent Role

Salary of up to £28,917pa, plus a company car!

Mears Housing Management are seeking Resident Welfare Officers to support the delivery of a new service designed to enable a vulnerable client group, avoid homelessness and move into settled accommodation. Pastoral, floating support will be required to support the management and sustainment of interim accommodation and to support a pathway to settled accommodation.

The Resident Welfare Officer role involves a mix of administrative, practical, and supportive tasks, primarily focused on helping service users with their housing and well-being needs.

• Diary and Property Management: Arrange your own schedule, managing a portfolio of property inspections, and checking on completed work.
• Planning and Support: Support service users with health, finance, repairs, and the move-on process.
• Appointments and Referrals: Assist with service users' appointments and make necessary referrals, including fallback support as needed.
• Food and Basic Needs: Arrange food parcels and ensure service users have access to essential resources.
• Accommodation Support: Help find and arrange accommodation options for service users.
• Communication: Regularly interact with service users via face-to-face meetings and telephone calls, alternating throughout the month. This includes making sure service users attend their appointments.
• Repairs and Maintenance: Raise work orders for repairs needed in properties (such as voids and).
  
  

This position is very service-oriented, requiring strong organisation and communication skills. You’ll need the ability to balance administrative tasks with hands-on support.

This role is to primarily cover the County Durham/Darlington/Teeside areas with the expectation to travel throughout the North East as required by the business.

Role Criteria

This role forms part of the front-line service team who are delivering to a vulnerable client group.

You Will Need

• Demonstrable experience of working in a similar based role
• Experience of working with vulnerable and diverse client groups
• Exposure and experience of dealing with drug misuse, homelessness, mental health, ex-offenders, trafficking
• Ability to identify individuals and family need and recognise the required support packages to maintain independence
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and clients both face-to-face and by phone/email.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• You will be supportive, trustworthy, a good listener, approachable and empathetic to others by nature as well as being patient, open, able to think on your feet with a strong desire to help others
• Full UK Driving License
  
  

All our roles require candidates to have the entitlement to work within the UK, Mears does not currently offer visa sponsorship.

Benefits We Can Offer You

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Annual Mears Fun Day - Our annual Fun Day is organised as a massive thank you from the Executive team for all the hard work!
• Volunteering Leave - Mears supports employees to undertake paid volunteering in the community, in support of our social value commitment.
• Staff perks with Mears Rewards - discounts of up to 10% weekly groceries, holidays, eye test vouchers, Share save scheme, plus much more
• Family friendly policies
• Company Car, Fuel Card and Uniform
  
  

Candidates should be aware that all our roles are subject to relevant DBS/Security checks before commencement of employment. To work on this contract, you need to have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years to pass all our security checks.

Apply below or to discuss your application further; contact:

Lauren Bellini ([email protected])

If you need any help with your application process, we are here to support you. We will be accessible every step of the way.

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