Community safety housing officer

Description

BDS Recruitment are working with a leading housing provider near Stockport who are looking for an experinced community safety/ASB officer.

Contract: Temp ongoing

Pay circa £25/27 umbrella

Purpose:

* 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

* Provide an effective contact for customers reporting ASB so as to create a culture of confidence in our services, investigating and responding to all ASB complaints.

* Work collaboratively with colleagues in neighbourhood teams to update them on cases and issues within communities.

* Manage a safer neighbourhoods caseload, including initial assessment of seriousness and priority, investigation and legal recourse.

* Develop effective partnerships across neighbourhoods to address complex cases and issues identified in neighbourhood plans. -

* Undertake research and investigate opportunities for action and best practice, and to identify funding sources, prepare bids, and to seek to maximize 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.

Criteria:

* Knowledge and awareness of related housing regulations/ law

* Experience of delivering face to face customer service

* Experience of developing partnership working with support agencies, local authorities and community groups

* Good understanding of the social, economic and political context in the neighbourhoods in which we operate

You will need a be a driver with access to a vehicle

Apply now for immediate consideration or call Vickie or Charlotte

Ad ID: 5416905615