Community Rights Coordinator - London, United Kingdom - Shelter, National Campaign for Homeless People Limited

Shelter, National Campaign for Homeless People Limited

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

£29,012 per annum (plus £5,023 per annum London Weighting allowance) plus excellent benefits including flexible working

Fixed term contract until September 2024

Hackney/Westminster

Closing date:
Tuesday 19 September 2023 at 11.30pm

Do you have proven experience of housing and/or social justice work and the ability and desire to progress your knowledge to specialist level? Then join Shelter as a

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Community Rights Coordinator and you could soon be playing a pivotal role at the heart of our London Hub.
About Shelter

A home is a fundamental human need, as essential as education or healthcare. Yet millions of people across Britain struggle on a daily basis with homelessness, bad housing conditions, soaring rents, discrimination and the threat of eviction. So, we are striving for change, with individuals, in communities, across society, and leading the way to a safe home. We need ambitious, bestinclass individuals who are passionate about our cause to join us at this exciting time. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.
At Shelter we are united by our purpose to defend the right to a safe home. Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. We believe that to win that fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement for change. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, fair, equitable and transparent.
We have committed to combat racism both within and outside Shelter and welcome you on our journey to becoming a truly antiracist organisation.
About the team
The Shelter London Hub specialises in providing housing advice and emergency homelessness work, intensive support to families, people experiencing domestic abuse and people experiencing multiple disadvantages. We offer a range of help to people in the community and also deliver housing and homelessness awareness raising and targeted advice sessions in a range of community settings. In total, we provide frontline support to over 5,000 people a year in the city while simultaneously working to improve the underlying systems that prevent people from living securely in suitable, safe, affordable accommodation. This particular role sits within our Westminster partnership. Since the introduction of the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, Shelter London, in partnership with RMG and The Passage, have been providing personalised housing solutions for Westminster residents who are at risk of becoming homeless.
About the role
The role of Community Rights Coordinator is key in helping to deliver our purpose to defend the right to a safe home by enabling those we assist to enforce their housing rights and working with local communities and partners to fight the root causes of bad housing and homelessness. It's also essential in enabling us to achieve our aim of becoming an antiracist organisation and working with individuals and communities to understand and change the system. Working alongside people experiencing homelessness and bad housing, as well as facing severe and multiple disadvantage, we'll rely on you to identify issues and deliver casework to individuals and communities to remove barriers to support which are impacting on their housing.
Planning and delivering casework, recording quantitative and qualitative data, delivering advice and rights promotion workshops and actively contributing to local plans and priorities, as well as Shelter's national strategy these are just some aspects of this interesting, varied and vital role.
We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.
About you
To succeed, you'll need to have worked with vulnerable people and/or people with multiple and complex needs and have experience of operating within a safeguarding framework. What's more, because you'll be engaging with community groups, local organisations and individuals to understand local housing issues and raise awareness of people's rights, you'll need the ability to communicate using a range of mediums to a variety of audiences, particularly people with lived experience of homelessness. Used to working innovatively to engage clients and help them achieve their goals, you're as comfortable carrying out interviews as you are maintaining detailed case records or getting involved in strategic case planning. You're also able to understand data and present information in a logical and clear way and, when required, deploy flexible time management skills across a range of tasks and responsibilities.
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave (pro rata), enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle