Housing Compliance Worker

As a Housing Compliance Worker, you will be responsible for supporting the Head of Delivery and local Service Manager.

You will be ensuring the CLI Recovery Housing is fully compliant and safe, ensuring Health and Safety is maintained across the housing portfolio and completing property audits.

You will act as an ambassador for CLI locally and will work closely with the Head of Delivery and the local Service Manager to develop your relationships with external stakeholders such as partner agencies.

The role also requires you to provide housing-related support to people who have either been through the criminal justice system, have been affected by drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness or mental health issues, which has resulted in them being unable to retain their accommodation placement.

You will be required to follow instructions from the Head of Delivery and local Service Manager to ensure your performance is in line with KPIs and contract requirements whilst ensuring you operate in line with CLI’s strategic plan, mission and values.

It is essential that you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to organise your workload whilst working as part of a team.

Contract Type: Maternity Cover Fixed Term Contract until May 2026 potential to be made permanent)
Working Hours: 37.5 hrs per week
Location: Bedford/Central Bedfordshire
Reporting to: Head of Delivery
 

What are we looking for

• Experience of housing management and compliance is essential.
• Experience of supporting individuals to initiate tenancy sustainment in the community.
• Experience of managing a housing portfolio and taking a lead of the health and safety of the properties.
• Experience of property repairs, management and prevention.
• Experience of producing and/or contributing to reports.
• Knowledge and understanding of at least one of the following areas; the criminal justice system, homelessness, mental health, substance misuse and the work of Probation services.
• Knowledge of interventions available to residents in a ‘supported-housing’ environment.
• Knowledge of current Health and Safety requirements in a supported housing environment.
• An understanding of best practice when working with individuals across different areas of challenge.
• Be able to display a thorough understanding and commitment to the protection and safeguarding of vulnerable people.
• Current driving license, use of car and appropriate business use insurance is essential.

About Us

Community Led initiatives are a lived experience organisation that believes in the capacity for human change. We support those who have been through the criminal justice system, have been affected by drug and alcohol addiction, homelessness or mental health issues. We help them to overcome the barriers preventing them from achieving their goals.

We inspire people to believe that change is possible. We seek, recruit and develop employees who personify change as they will have encountered and overcome many of the barriers which the people we support will face.

We provide one-to-one peer support and group work activities to help the people we work with to achieve their personal goals. In addition to addressing their practical and emotional needs we help them to develop a new positive sense of self. By the end of our mentoring relationship, the people we work with feel empowered to move their lives forward independently and build upon the successes achieved with us.

Many of the people we work with go on to volunteer here at CLI to help build their CV, develop skills, gain meaningful work and bring utility to their past. And we are proud to say that a significant number of CLI mentoring programme graduates go on to become long term ambassadors for change.

We work in partnership with other organisations that are striving to deliver positive impacts, support change, and share our commitment and values.

And we actively welcome those with lived experience of offending, addiction, homelessness, or mental health issues as part of our team. Where others see risk, we see opportunity.

We believe everyone deserves to feel valued, to be happy, to belong.

Community Led Initiatives is an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes applications regardless of race, nationality, ethnic origin, sex, marital status, disability, or age. All applicants are considered based on their merits and abilities for the job. All posts are subject to enhanced DBS checks however it will not be used to discriminate unfairly against any individual. We actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills, and potential and welcome applications from a wide range of candidates, including those with criminal records.