Housing Management Officer

Rethink Mental Illness are hiring a Housing Management Officer to join our inspiring and friendly team at Topping Mill, Bury.

Imagine being part of an organisation whose common purpose is to help those who are severely impacted by mental illness. We believe that everyone should be treated with respect and dignity – and that's why equity is one of our core values.

Our Topping Mill Service provides stable transition accommodation and support, to people over the age of 18, for up to five years. Our supported living accommodation provides person-centred support, based on their recovery journey. This will enable users to move onto housing within the community. Topping Mill consists of 14 self-contained flats, along with a shared lounge on both the ground and first floor.

JOIN THE TEAM

Overview of a Housing Management Officer role:

As a Housing Officer, you will work under the leadership and guidance of the Registered Service Manager (RSM) to deliver a responsive and customer orientated housing management service. This involves working with tenants who experience Mental Health challenges, living in accommodation supported by Rethink mental illness staff.

Essential Skills and Experience Required:

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the values of the Charity
• Recognised Housing related qualification or equivalent relevant experience
• Experience in a comparable role, preferably in housing, social services, residential care or supported housing.
• Experience and knowledge of enhanced housing benefit, housing management, related legislation, letting procedures and Local Authority guidelines
• Ability to identify support goals and evaluate progress.
• Knowledge of risk assessments and ability to identify potential risks and how to manage risks.
• Understanding of housing management, law and best practice
• Ability to motivate people and achieve positive outcomes
• Ability to communicate effectively at different levels
• Knowledge of housing needs / barriers faced by people who experience mental ill health.
• Excellent communication and literacy skills, able to produce clear, concise reports, correspondence and notes
• Competent in the use of IT systems including Microsoft applications, email and internet.

Who are we?

We're Rethink Mental Illness, a leading charity provider of mental health services in England. We support thousands of people through our groups, services, policy, campaigns and advice and information. Our work supports us in delivering on our mission: "A better life for everyone severely affected by mental illness."

It is an exciting time to join our growing charity. We are on a transformation journey, one that supports the delivery of the organisation strategy – delivering Communities that Care. Supporting employees, managers and leaders through this change is a key priority for the People function. Just like its key that we attract diverse people to come and work for us.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion

Diversity is important to us and we appreciate difference through difference, inclusiveness and belonging. It gives us a deeper understanding of the world, our society and the diverse communities we're working with. By including everyone, we are able to draw on the unique experiences and expertise of our people to help shape and enrich our workplace and improve our services. One way we are doing is through our valued staff networks which play a critical and highly valued role in keeping us focused on creating a diverse, inclusive and engaged employer. We recognise and support staff networks and support groups for our ethnically diverse and LGBTQIA+ colleagues. We are also proud to have been awarded Disability Confident Employer status and are a signatory to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter.

We aim for our workforce to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve; for those who work for us to feel heard, valued and feel they belong; and for our work to help tackle wider mental health inequalities. We therefore actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including applicants with lived experience of mental illness, those who are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, Intersex, Asexual and any other gender identity not expressed here (LGBTQIA+); people who are neurodiverse, have a health condition, or a disability or hidden disability and people from an ethnically diverse background - regardless of your age, religious or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy, political view or socio-economic status.

Becoming a truly anti-racist organisation

We have an ambition of become a truly anti-racist employer, campaigning organisation and service provider - and in our efforts to influence policy and wider societal factors impacting on mental health set out in our anti-racist statement . We have designed a multi-year anti-racist programme of work contained in our Race Equality Action Plan which demonstrates our intention to hold ourselves accountable and be judged on our progress on becoming a truly anti-racist organisation. You can read more about our progress here.

We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

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Our work to achieve this is guided by seven core values:

• Commitment
• Equity
• Expertise
• Hope
• Openness
• Passion
• Understanding?

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