Traveller Site Officer - 12 months fixed term

About the role

We are looking for a Traveller Site Officer to deliver front‑line housing management services on North Northamptonshire Council’s traveller sites. You will provide a first‑class, customer‑focused service, including income collection, arrears support, coordinating repairs as well as all aspects of site management.

A key part of the role is building strong relationships with residents, improving customer satisfaction, and increasing engagement across our sites and services.

If you are passionate about supporting communities and delivering high‑quality housing services, we’d like to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

The Traveller Site Officer will provide visible site management, coordinate repairs and maintenance, and ensure health and safety compliance.

They will work closely with residents, addressing behaviour concerns, supporting those with complex needs, and promoting positive engagement.

Duties include managing site operations, overseeing voids and allocations, supporting income collection and arrears recovery, and taking appropriate legal action when required.

The role also involves accurate record‑keeping, preparing reports, responding to enquiries, and contributing to service improvements and performance targets.

About you

We’re looking for enthusiastic, motivated people who want to make a difference and grow their career in housing.

What will you bring to the role:

• Passion, Resilience, Innovation, Drive and Energy – with a commitment to Working Together to Achieve Success.
• Good organisational and communication skills, with an eye for detail.
• A friendly and approachable manner, with the confidence to deal with resident queries.
• A good understanding of issues affecting the travelling community including law and legislation.
• Knowledge of housing legislation, regulation and case law.
• Experience of working with people who may find themselves in difficult situations and who may have multiple/complex needs including challenging behaviours.
• Experience of managing and prioritising own workload without supervision to meet demands and targets.
• A willingness to learn, take on new challenges and support colleagues across the service.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a large, forward-looking housing service, while helping to create safer, stronger and more connected communities.

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 salary
• a 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 council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid 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 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.

Disability Confident Employer

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.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

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