Client Tenant Involvement OfficerLewes37 hours per week

GBP31,011 – GBP34,503 per year

At Southdown, we believe everyone has the right to live their life well and our mission is to provide exceptional community support services across Sussex that enable people to achieve this. We are an organisation with a social purpose and a desire to change lives for the better, employing over 1,000 people each year, supporting more than 9,000 people across our 62 services.

Here at Southdown, we aspire to be brilliant with people and to involve our clients and tenants in everything we do. In this role you will be central to helping us advance this ambition by ensuring our client/tenant voice informs our decisions, service design and quality of service performance monitoring.

You will be responsible for:

Coordinating and running initiatives which engage and empower Southdown's client and tenants, in turn fostering active client/tenant involvement, and ensuring services are shaped with their voices, lived experiences and priorities in mind.Ensure Service areas respond to customer complaints and feedback with timely and meaningful responses and that Service areas learn from complaints and feedback.Support the realisation of our Client/Tenant Voice Strategy and Framework across Southdown, developing and delivering initiatives, systems, processes and ways of working that enable best practice in client/tenant engagement and involvement approaches and over time a transition to more client/tenant codesign and coproduction. If you are passionate about client/tenant voice and helping deliver on our codesign and coproduction ambitions, we'd love to hear from you.

We are passionate about developing people at Southdown and value skills as much as experience.

Southdown believes in people and to ensure that all staff can live well and to recognise that the work that you do is invaluable to the community, Southdown will provide you with the following:

Refunds on the cost of health care such as dental, optical, physical therapies and other medical treatment.Access to a range of retail and health discounts via an online portal.Free Blue Light Card: discounts in over 170 high street stores and entertainment venues.Access to an Easit Network Card: discounts and incentives on train, bus, cycle and car journeys.Employee Assistance Programme service which offers free, independent, and confidential 24/7 advice and counselling.GBP100 bonus upon successful completion of your probation period.Refer a Friend scheme: Introduce a new member of staff and receive up to GBP300.Long Service, Birthday & Christmas vouchers to spend.Plus, much more! Southdown is a psychologically informed organisation where the well–being and happiness of our employees matter. We're committed to creating a positive and compassionate work environment where employees feel valued, respected and inspired to do their best. In addition, we're a family–friendly employer that recognises the importance of a work–life balance. If you share our values and want to work for an organisation that helps change lives for the better, we want to hear from you.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and are fully committed to supporting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and welcome applications from all candidates that meet our job specifications. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, do get in contact with us as we are always happy to discuss (or arrange a discussion with the recruiting manager) to explore if any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.

Closing date for applications: 21 January 2024

Interviews will be held: 26 January 2024