Independent Living Co-ordinator

6 months ago


Blackpool, United Kingdom Great Places Housing Group Full time

Job Advert

**Independent Living Coordinator**

Reporting to the Independent Living Manager, the Independent Living Coordinator will be part of a team who provide supportive, responsive, effective and flexible housing management and support to customers in Independent Living. The Independent Living Coordinator is responsible for promoting and maximising independence for older people within a user led environment in line with the Great Places Service Commitment framework.

What you’ll be doing
- Supporting customers, involving relevant parties where appropriate, to maintain their independence and thrive in their tenancy and community.
- Responsible for all aspects of tenancy management, including; voids, allocations, managing tenancy end and new tenancies, customer inductions, rents, ASB and challenging behaviour and breaches of occupancy agreements and the reporting and monitoring of repairs, maintenance and adaptations.
- Responsible for general building management, health and safety, maintaining security and building compliance.
- Supporting the welfare of customers, providing welfare checks in line with the service offer, responding to alarm calls and emergencies when on site and working closely with customers’ relatives and support agencies to ensure that customers’ housing and support needs are met;
- Completing Personal Safety Plans with all customers as required - taking a Person Centred Approach to provide advice and guidance to customers to maintain their security and safety, assisting them to identify any risks and how these might be managed;
- Maintaining accurate and timely records as required for the role and in line with Data Protection regulations, to ensure that information is recorded and shared as required to support customers and maintain the safety of services;
- Actively promoting partnership working with other agencies, signposting their services to our customers where appropriate and supporting our customers to access relevant services;
- Encouraging and supporting customers to organise or access social activities, encouraging engagement with other agencies and the wider community;
- Ensuring any safeguarding concerns are promptly dealt with and appropriate action is taken;
- Adhering to relevant guidelines and workflows, working in line with the Great Places Service Commitment framework.

What you’ll need
- Experience and understanding of safeguarding of vulnerable adults.
- Experience of administration and recording procedures, with an in depth understanding of confidentiality;
- Relevant professional qualification/memberships or equivalent experience;
- Experience of basic housing processes and welfare benefits;
- Have relevant and up to date knowledge around housing and tenancy legislation and procedures which can be acted upon to make informed decisions;
- Able to travel to multiple locations;
- Driving licence and access to transport**.**

What we need from you
- Ability to complete tasks in an accurate and timely manner when working under pressure and maintain attention to detail;
- Effective liaison with colleagues and other stakeholders to give or find information to resolve problems;
- Highly organised with an ability to plan, prioritise and manage deadlines;
- Awareness of working within budgets and Value for Money and first line response to complaints
- You will be required to attend a number of face to face training sessions as well as virtual sessions and e-learning.

What we give you in return for your hard work and commitment
- ** Pension** **|**DC Scheme (up to 10% contribution from both colleague and Great Places)
- ** WPA** **|**Healthcare auto enrolled at no contribution level with £1250 of savings available
- option to increase & add on family members
- ** The Market Place** **|**high street, restaurant & supermarket discounts, gym memberships, cycle to work, smart tech loans and much more
- ** Annual Leave** **|**Start at 26 days annual leave, increasing up to 30 days + Bank Holidays
- ** Savings Club** **|** You can put aside money each month for 11 months to help you save for that special something (pays out in Novembers salary)
- ** Sharing Greatness | **Our colleague incentive scheme where colleagues can earn £300 by helping the business achieve business targets.
- ** Help with transport | **We offer season ticket loans, an affordable way to purchase season tickets for public transport at discounted rates.

At Great Places we believe the wellbeing of our colleagues is vital to enable them to deliver to great services, all your benefits can be used inside and outside of work.

Great Places Housing Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults and expects all our colleagues to share this commitment.

Further detail on our commitment to safeguarding children/young people & vulnerable adults can be found in the Great Places Housing Group Safeguarding Policy & Recruitment Policy on our website.



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