Casual Workers

Who we are:

Jigsaw Homes Group is one of the largest housing groups in England with more than 35,000 homes across the North West and East Midlands.

We provide quality, low-cost housing and play a wider role in making sure our tenants thrive in their homes and benefit from living in healthy, sustainable communities.

We provide safe, comfortable, secure and affordable homes for people across Tameside, Greater Manchester, Oldham and Nottingham. We’re dedicated to making a difference, creating neighbourhoods where people want to live – and an organisation where people want to work.

About the department:

Jigsaw Homes Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our commitment is underpinned by robust processes and procedures that seek to maximise opportunity, minimise risk and continuously promote a culture of safeguarding amongst our workforce.

Role information:

We are looking for enthusiastic people to join our casual bank of staff within our contracted homeless accommodation service. You will have experience supporting people with complex needs helping them to overcome barriers so they can be resettled back in to the community.

Working as part of motivated team, you will be providing support and advice to maintain the welfare, health and safety of all our customers.

You will have experience working with vulnerable client group in a front line customer environment and you will have great communication skills with everyone you meet.

You will have excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to respond sensitively to individuals needs being tactful but assertive depending on the circumstances. Knowledge of housing and welfare benefits legislation would be desirable.

We operate a 24/7 service for our customers covering all aspects of homelessness and we also provide an out of hours service for our partners.

You will need to be flexible to meet service needs as you may be required to cover shifts at short notice. You will be expected to work waking nights, late evenings, weekends and bank holidays so you must be willing to work all patterns.

Provisional date for interviews is Thursday 20th April 2023

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a sufficient number of CV's