Job profile for Encampments Coordinator
Encampments Coordinator
Location Hove Town Hall, Norton Road, Hove, BN3 3BQ
Job details
Salary £34,434 to £39,152
Contractual hours 37
Basis Flexi Hours
Package we are pleased to offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your wellbeing. You can read about them on our Why work for us pages.
Job description
- Do you enjoy working directly with members of the public / residents?
- Do you have experience of engaging with a wide variety of individuals, communities and partner agencies?
- Are you passionate about issues related to homelessness and vulnerable people in Brighton & Hove?
The Community Cohesion Team is looking for two exceptional candidates to coordinate the multi‑agency response to unauthorised tented encampments and occupied vehicles in Brighton & Hove on behalf of the Local Authority, ensuring an appropriate balance between the council’s welfare led approach to rough sleeping and van dwelling, and wider community concerns. Working with key partner agencies, they ensure the city’s approach to unauthorised encampments is fair, consistent and in line with local and national priorities, expectations, duties and legislation.
This role is permanent.
About the role
You will be liaising with colleagues from a variety of services in relation to tented encampments and occupied vehicles on Council‑owned and managed land, and the highway, ensuring there is a clear plan around each of these that balances consideration of vulnerability, risk, safeguarding, and potential community impact for each site.
Your work will include outreach work, partnership collaboration, and problem‑solving in response to the complex issue of unauthorised encampments, including ensuring those occupying them have access to appropriate support, and the consideration and pursuit of formal enforcement action where necessary.
You will use your excellent communication and written skills to build and maintain strong and effective links with key stakeholders, responding to direct contact from members of the public, keeping clear and accurate records and preparing papers for court when needed.
The ability to work in a changeable environment, balancing at times competing expectations and demands on your time, is paramount, as is experience of dynamic risk assessment to manage challenging situations, at all times embracing Brighton & Hove City Council’s commitment to anti‑racist practice and equalities.
You will be supported by the Community Safety Manager and the wider Community Cohesion Team to develop and refine key processes in the city that deliver the best possible service for the diverse range of individuals living in unauthorised encampments, and those who might be impacted by those encampments, making best use of all available resources, services and legislation.
Encouraging a diverse workforce
Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it’s what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.
Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti‑racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).
Why work for us?
- be connected
- be confident
- be innovative and creative
- be diverse and inclusive
- be healthy and psychologically safe
For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us which gives details of our wellbeing support, our benefits including leave and pensions as well as details of our training and development.
Additional information
Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term‑time only.
Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check.
We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining. Your contractual location will be the designated council office for your team and travel to and from your contractual location would be at your own expense.
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