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Crisis Resilience and Prevention Officer
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Crisis Resilience and Prevention Officer
Fixed term contract for 12 months, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday
£31,537 - £35,412 per annum (pay award pending)
Malvern Hills and Wychavon District Councils,
We are recruiting for a new position within the Housing Services team at Wychavon and Malvern Hills District. This is a unique opportunity if you are able to problem solve, work in partnership with different agencies and work together with households to ensure they can overcome financial crisis.
This role will work together receiving referrals from residents engaged with both the Housing Options and Private Sector Housing Teams; focussing on homeless prevention, working with private landlords to ensure tenants can remain in their homes through mediation/support and helping residents facing financial crisis with regard to housing.
You will need to provide financial and housing advice as part of your role, you will be required to have skills in persuasion, negotiation and influencing to support your work with residents along with partner organisations. You will also use your excellent written and verbal communication skills.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Officer to grow their CV and gain further experience in a supportive and ambitious shared service.
About You
The successful candidate will:
- Have proven experience of working in a similar role delivering financial support.
- Hold a relevant housing or welfare qualification.
- Be able to demonstrate the ability to problem solve while working with a complex case load with a focus on households facing homeless or financial crisis.
- Have the skills and ability to maximise household incomes and reduce levels of poverty.
- Have knowledge and experience of the welfare benefits system, including Universal Credit.
- Work with residents facing financial hardship – such as mortgage repossession, eviction due to rent arrears to prevent households becoming homeless.
- Design eligibility for a hardship fund which will be made available via the Crisis and Resilience Funding to help support residents most in need of financial assistance.
- Work with residents to deliver financial capability training and money management through training courses, briefing sessions and one to ones.
- Support the reduction of Sundry Debtors, to ensure debts to the Council are collected.
- Report on outcomes quarterly and produce case studies of success stories to Senior Managers.
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What We Can Offer
Our staff are at the heart of what we do and are key to ensuring we deliver our "We are Wychavon District Council" plan (attached) to make a positive difference to our communities, our economy and our environment. We are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find. So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:
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- Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
- Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
- Committed training programme and development opportunities
- Onsite nursery with 20% staff discount
- Discounted Gym and swim membership
- Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.
We are an employer that values face to face communication, collaboration and connection, therefore all our roles have an office-based requirement with some agile working as part of the role.
Please note: Wychavon District Council does not currently offer sponsorship for candidates without the Right to Work in the UK.
To discuss the post or for further information, please contact Rachael Tooth (Principal Housing Officer) on rachael.tooth@wychavon.gov.uk or Lisa Williams (Principal Housing Officer) on lisa.williams@wychavon.gov.uk
Closing date: Monday 31 August 2026
Interview date: Monday 14 September 2026 (In person in Pershore)
Please note: If we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.
Attached documents
- Employee Benefits
- We are Wychavon Council Plan
- Crisis and Prevention Officer Job Description
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