Tower Hamlets Council is transforming the way services are delivered to make them more consistent, more accessible, and capable of meeting the changing needs of our customers. We have set up and developed a number of Residents’ Hubs throughout the borough to support our most vulnerable residents across a range of support services.
Your role will involve working in our Residents’ Hub locations, where you will be assisting residents in various ways to access and apply for a variety of services.
You will also be carrying out assessments and referrals for individual residents and raising service requests to internal/external partners along with providing help, guidance, advice and/or assistance at point of contact. Our current services include helping residents with services such as Housing, Benefits, Council Tax, Parking, Debt Management to employment and training opportunities and welfare benefits with many more areas being added as we develop and extend our service offerings.
The role also requires responding to customer queries that come in via the council’s social media accounts.
The service is delivered face to face from multiple sites, over the phone as well as via social media platforms. Our current operational hours are Monday to Friday, 9-5pm for most sites with some that operate on a 10-6pm basis.
You will need to be flexible and willing to travel to any part of the borough at short notice to provide cover as required.
We are recruiting to 2 full-time posts at 35 hours per week and 1 part-time post at 28 hours per week consisting of Monday to Thursday
Please make it clear on your supporting statement whether you are applying for the full-time or part-time post.
Due to the nature of the role being customer facing, no hybrid working will be available.
We serve a diverse community. To help provide the best service Somali and Arabic speakers are particularly welcome to apply.
Please be aware that the vacancy can close earlier than advertised if we receive a certain number of applications.