Job Introduction
Role Purpose
BCP Council is dedicated to creating a safe and supportive environment for all residents. We are seeking a committed and proactive Community Development Officer to facilitate a number of our homelessness prevention initiatives and help ensure that everyone in our community has access to stable housing. This is a new and exciting role that will work with a wide variety of stakeholders across a number of localities in BCP.
Main Responsibilities
- Work with our partners to develop and implement community initiatives aimed at preventing homelessness within a number of localities.
- Collaborate with local community groups, council services and other stakeholders to provide comprehensive support and resources across a number of localities in BCP.
- Conduct outreach and engage with members of the community to understand their housing and other needs and connect them with appropriate services.
- Coordinate workshops, training sessions, and community events focused on homelessness prevention and awareness.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of homelessness prevention programs and report on outcomes.
- Facilitate a working group work that will lead on locality based homelessness prevention - ensuring records are kept and actions tracked.
Further information can be found from the Job Description attached.
The Ideal Candidate
- Passionate about social justice and homelessness prevention.
- Empathetic and approachable, with a genuine interest in helping vulnerable populations.
- Creative and innovative thinker.
- A strong facilitator of people and partner organisations
- Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple localities and priorities effectively.
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Jack Blankley (jack.blankley@bcpcouncil.gov.uk)
About BCP Council
BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.
Our Benefits
We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website
As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils.
We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward. If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.
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