Job description

APPRENTICE INVESTMENT ASSISTANT

Are you enthusiastic, passionate, and committed to improving outcomes for residents of Sheffield’s Council Housing & Neighbourhoods Service?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with within the Neighbourhood Service, as an Investment Assistant.
Our Investment Assistants are an important part of our service, and we currently have an apprentice position available based at our office in Attercliffe.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Good written and oral communication skills
• Able to prioritise and organise workload
• Proactive problem solving approach to work
• Ability to work to targets, deadlines and work under pressure

This is an opportunity to join a front-line service with scope to influence and improve the service we provide the customers of Sheffield. You will be working within a team of experienced, supportive, and motivated staff.
You will contribute to the delivery of a high-quality service which supports customers to help them sustain their tenancies. We are looking for applicants with a positive approach, can do attitude and can provide a high quality, continually improving and customer driven service. Housing knowledge is not essential, we will work with successful applicants to ensure they are trained and coached to gain the knowledge needed. We also offer great career progression opportunities for all our staff.
The post will involve multi agency working with other teams within the Council or other agencies to provide the best possible support to our customers.

Successful applicants must also have:

• Good numeracy and written skills
• An ability to use Microsoft IT and other relevant systems.

If you would like an informal discussion, or any further information, then please contact Gemma Bailey on 0114 2052717 or via email gemma.bailey@sheffield.gov.uk
We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.
It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.
Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.
Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Find out more on our Sheff news page.

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