Job Description

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to work in housing, gaining hands-on experience in a busy, customer-focused environment making a real difference to your community.


Housing Solutions comprises four main areas: Housing Advice and Options, Housing Allocations, Single Homelessness and Accommodation Services.


Working in Accommodation Services, you will assist and provide an excellent administrative support service to our in-house supported housing projects for single homeless people (Transitions Project and Never Give Up) and provide property management support for officers managing temporary accommodation.


Being based across the North Northamptonshire area, you will provide administrative and business support to the Accommodation Services management team.


If you're enthusiastic, organised, and eager to learn, we'd love to hear from you.


For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Ed Frost, Accommodation Services Manager - Edward.Frost@northnorthants.gov.uk.


Please note this role will initially be a 12 month fixed-term contract.


About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:


Customer-focused

Respectful

Efficient

Supportive

Trustworthy


Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.


Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).


Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)


Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we're transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.



You'll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!


Why choose us?


We offer a vibrant working environment with:

a competitive salary a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection. lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.


We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.