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Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding role and have experience of providing housing advice and support to adults, whether as a volunteer or in a professional capacity?

In this role, you will be part of a team providing accommodation and support services to help Ukrainian families rebuild their lives and fully integrate into our Sheffield communities.

To be successful in this role, you will:-

• Effectively undertake housing solutions service casework, primarily working on providing support to Ukrainian families arriving in Sheffield.
• Assess potential sponsors and ensure Ukrainian families have accommodation, which meets their needs.
• Build relationships, keeping in touch with your families through visits and community events
• Provide a rematching service, housing support and signposting to other services
• Collect information relating to the Homes for Ukraine scheme and housing applications, progress cases from application to final outcome and provide administration for reviews.
• Be organised, a great communicator with good written and verbal skills and proficient in using IT including Microsoft 365

The role will involve working closely with people who have come to the UK to seek refuge from the conflict in Ukraine, and we would particularly welcome applications from candidates who have similar lived experience, and applications from candidates able to speak Ukrainian.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare and safety of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff to share this commitment. All successful candidates will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

For informal enquiries: email [email protected]