About the role

This is a new and exciting opportunity to be a Rough Sleeper Workers, funded by the Government’s Rough Sleeping Prevention & Recovery Grant (RSPARG) to join our dynamic and successful Rough Sleeping Team to help ensure rough sleeping is rare, brief, and non-recurring across North Northamptonshire.

This posts will cover one of the four main areas in North Northants with flexibility required to work across North Northamptonshire and within the local community when needed.

Please note based on external funding this post is fixed term until the end of March 2026.

What will you be doing?

As a Rough Sleeper Worker you will undertake regular street outreach sessions (including during the night and early morning), responding to intelligence and searching known rough sleeping sites, to identify people sleeping rough and help them to leave the streets as quickly as possible.

You will also provide advocacy, casework, and support to those helped off the streets and into accommodation to ensure that they successfully sustain their accommodation and acquire the skills and ability to live independently.

About you

You will have experience of working with and supporting vulnerable people and have a good understanding of housing and homelessness issues, including the barriers people face when trying to leave the streets.

You will have a proven ability to inspire and motivate people and work effectively with others and be able to work well under pressure due to the changing demands of the service.

To succeed in the role, you must be focused on achieving positive outcomes, have excellent communication skills and be an accomplished negotiator and problem solver.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details including the essential and desirable criteria for this role.

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

a competitive salarya pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary councilgenerous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 dayshybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

 

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our Key Commitments

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

North Northamptonshire Council re-signed the Armed Forces Covenant in June 2024 which highlights the Council’s pledge to support the Armed Forces community. The council obtained the silver status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) and we are now currently working towards achieving Gold status.

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)

Attached documents NNC Street Outreach Worker JDPS 2025.pdf Apply

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Rough Sleeper Worker Salary £33,366 - £35,235 Salary Frequency Annual Working Hours 37 Job Reference Ref/6218/6898 Contract Type Full Time Contract Details Fixed term until end of March 2026 Closing Date 28 July, 2025 Job Category Housing Location Sheerness House 41 Meadow Road Kettering, United Kingdom Job Posted Date 11 July, 2025 Apply Add to watchlist Print this job Refer a friend for this job

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