Community Safety Officer

**About us**

We’re Abri, a housing association based in the south of England. One of the largest in fact. We've got 35,000 homes and 1,500 colleagues. And if all our 80,000 residents lived in the same place, we’d have a town roughly the size of Guildford.

We’re a passionate bunch. We think we can make a real difference. Homelessness, poverty, inequality, a lack of affordable housing. They’re all linked. They’re issues that affect so many, young and old alike. And we don’t think that’s right. We want to give people the chance to dream big and be who they want to be. Homes are at the heart of everybody’s lives. And we exist to help make good homes, and good lives a reality for everyone.

**About you**

We’ve all got different backgrounds, strengths and experiences. But we share the same values. It’s these shared values that bring us together as one team.

Our colleagues embrace these every day. Be the difference to our customers and colleagues, always curious and look for better solutions, achieve together by working in partnership with others, own it openly through working with others in an open and honest way, and finally embrace possibility and see changes and challenges as welcomed opportunities.

If you share our values and want to make a real difference in the world, you’re on to a winner and we’d love to hear from you

**Your new role**

You'll be working on a challenging and varied case load. No two days in this post will be the same as you'll respond to a range of Safeguarding issues, tackling anti-social behaviour, supporting victims of domestic abuse and progressing legal matters through the court process. You’ll also need to proactively build relationships with colleagues from external agencies and attend multi-agency meetings as required. You'll need to undertake regular site visits in these areas so ideally you'll live in or near all of the above areas and have access to your own transport to be able to get to sites not always accessible by public transport.

We need great team players who are able to hit the ground running, so an understanding and knowledge of the various tools and powers available to us as a landlord in supporting victims and tackling complex safeguarding caseloads is important.

If this is the challenge you've been looking for and you want to make a huge, positive difference in the lives of our customers, we'd love to hear from you

You will need to live in or near the “Orchard” zone, on the attached map.

**What you can expect from us**

We want our colleagues at all levels to be bold, inspiring, and not afraid to speak up and be their authentic selves.

Your wellbeing is really important to us, so you can expect a competitive reward package to ensure you and your family are supported at work and at home.

We’ll work with you to help you reach your goals through personal development plans and our in-house People Development team.

You will work agilely which may mean working across different zones; you’ll manage your own diary and have flexibility to choose when and where you work whether it be in the office or at home. We strive to ensure all colleagues have a degree of flexibility to attend life’s important events.

We are recruiting for one officer to be based in our Yeovil Office - BA22 8WN (zone 1 on map)

**Be yourself**

Abri is committed to promoting an inclusive culture. We want our colleagues to bring their individual differences, life experiences and knowledge into the workplace and we welcome their contribution to our amazing company. Everyone is different, everyone is unique.

**To our agency friends**

Thanks for your interest in working with us. We already work with a number of carefully selected agencies, but if you’d like to put yourselves on our radar for if we ever review our suppliers list, don’t hesitate to register on our procurement portal.