Homeless Support OfficerStockport Homes Group is a great place to work. We pride ourselves on building strong collaborative relationships locally, regionally and nationally. We are passionate about not only providing housing and building new homes in Stockport, but helping to transform the lives of our customers. We aim to provide comfortable and affordable homes and engage customers and communities.We’re looking for a Homeless Support Officer to join our Temporary Accommodation team, to support in the day to day running of the temporary accommodation schemes, maintaining a good standard of temporary accommodation, provided for homeless families, single men, single women, sited at 3 separate locations.This is a varied role, working on a shift basis and your time can be spent offering practical support and advice, to promote customers independence and development. You will support residents in life skills training sessions in both formal and informal settings.In this rewarding role, you will have the opportunity to work alongside and support a diverse range of customers, assisting them into long term independent accommodation, inspiring people to make positive changes, realise their full potential and lead a fulfilled life.Candidates for this role will have good communication skills and a working knowledge of IT and Microsoft Office applications. You will have confidence in challenging behaviour/resistance in others and have previous experience and knowledge of providing a support/befriending service and a basic understanding of the benefits system. You will undertake ‘on the job training’ to understand the business and carry out key tasks which includes domestic duties, cleaning and preparing properties to be let after they have been vacated; and storing belongings in line with legal responsibilities. You will be required to work on a shift basis for this role.It is important to us that we have a diverse workforce, representative of the communities we work in. Equality, diversity and inclusion are important to us and we acknowledge that everyone is different. We’re always looking to improve diversity within our teams and across the group.Closing date 4th January 2022Interview date 11th January 2022Applications will be regularly reviewed and shortlisted continuously between now and the closing date. We therefore reserve the right to fill the vacancy ahead of the stated closing date. About UsFoundations was set up as a charitable arm of The Stockport Homes Group. In 2020, Stockport Homes achieved three star ‘extraordinary’ Best Companies accreditation and were recognised as one of Britain’s best employers for the eleventh consecutive year running by the Sunday Times newspaper.We are the Number 1 Not-For-Profit Organisation to work for in the Sunday Times Top 100 list for 2020 (Number one in the Best Companies Top 25 Housing Organisations to Work for) and have also achieved Platinum Investors in People status for our approach to people management and development.We are a values driven organisation committed to achieving our mission of ‘One team, transforming lives’, but we’re also entrepreneurial, maximising the value of our money and resources.Stockport Homes is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.