Fixed term/secondment opportunity until 6 November 2025
Newport, Isle of Wight hybrid working available
As a Money Mentor you will work within our communities, delivering money mentoring and coaching to residents. You will develop and deliver partnership activities, workshops and training events with the aim of promoting financial resilience and wellbeing amongst our residents. You will maintain accurate project records and produce detailed project reports.You will capture learning to share with project stakeholders and to help inform Southern Housings wider approach to financial inclusion and mental health.
Location
Youll be based at our office in The Courtyard, Newport, Isle of Wight with the option for working in a hybrid way when appropriate and as agreed with your manager. The role will involve extensive travel across the Isle of Wight.
Please note:
Applicants will need to pass aDBS check upon appointment and be passionate about working with people and committed to delivering high quality community programmes.
Applicants will also need to be confident in working with community members to grow projects and reach isolated individuals.Working flexibly across dates (including occasional weekend working), times and locations, responding to project and community need is required.
What youll need:
- Proven knowledge of issues relating to debt, financial exclusion and welfare benefit systems.
- Experience of providing person-centred support/advice and delivering both one to one and group money mentoring and coaching sessions
- Experienced in working with disadvantaged communities and knowledge of deprivation issues faced by residents on the Isle of Wight
- Direct recent experience of planning and developing workshops and session plans
- Practiced in project management methodologies particularly, documenting risks and capturing learning.
- Ability to meet and set goals and work to tight deadlines.Capable of producing detailed, impactful, reports for stakeholders
- Ability to horizon-scan and identify potential opportunities for developing the project and/or risks that might threaten its success
- Ability to innovate and solve problems
- Committed to equality, diversity and inclusion
In your supporting statement, please address how you meet each of the above criteria providing real examples.
Closing date: 6th October 2024 at 23:59
About us
At Southern Housing, our residents are at theheartof everything we do. As one of the largest housing providers in the UK with over 77,000 homes across London, the Southeast, the Isle of Wight, and the Midlands, we give over 167,000 people somewhere affordable to call their own! We also understand the difference that safe, secure, and affordable homes can make to peoples lives.
A career at Southern Housing will allow you to make a difference every day you come to work. Working in the housing sector with us will bring fresh challenges and give you the opportunity to grow and develop, too.
What's in it for you
- Pension
- Life assurance
- Healthcare cash plan
- Eyecare & dental
- Birthday leave
- Retailers discounts
- Cycle to work
- Buy & sell annual leave
- Season ticket loan
- In-house academy & career development
- Flexible working
Inclusion and Diversity
We work hard to create a diverse and inclusive culture and environment where people are respected for who they are. Encouraging inclusion is not just about protected characteristics, its about celebrating differences of thought, opinion, experience and perspective of each individual. Were all different in our own way and we want our colleagues to feel comfortable, that they belong, and are safe to be themselves at work, without fear of being judged or excluded, but valued for their contribution to our One Team approach.
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