Supported Housing recruitment services – high-volume urgent recruitment for Housing Support Workers for STAR Housing

Overview 

STAR Housing is an Arms Length Management Organisation, they have a management agreement with Shropshire Council to manage the homes, tenancies and neighbourhoods of the Council houses, flats, bungalows and garages across Bridgnorth, Oswestry and Shrewsbury areas.

Sellick Partnership has worked with STAR Housing for over six years, providing recruitment solutions on a temporary and permanent basis primarily within supported housing and care teams. We have successfully secured 14 temporary housing support workers in 2023 to work on a variety of schemes and programmes across STAR’s portfolio. 

Account Management

Chrissie Howard, Recruitment Consultant, is the dedicated recruitment partner for STAR Housing across supported housing and care. Chrissie has five years’ experience within employment advice and recruitment, and specialises in housing needs and housing management recruitment across the West Midlands. Chrissie is supported by Claire Harrison, Associate Director for Housing & Property Services, who has also worked closely with STAR Housing over the course of the last 6 years, providing hands on recruitment support and market insight. 

Our approach

As a preferred recruitment partner to STAR, we have developed a strong understanding of the organisational culture, structure and hiring managers needs and preferences. We have worked closely with the Community Support Team Lead for over 6 years, and continually develop a contingent candidate talent pool to ensure provision of Housing Support Workers who are fully vetted and able to start temporary assignments on short notice. During our partnership we have supported with a range of one-off short notice, urgent temporary assignments to cover workload shortages, as well as volume campaigns to resource new contracts or programmes. 

In addition to ad-hoc urgent requirements, during 2023, STAR exclusively engaged Sellick Partnership to provide temporary resource to support a new contract targeted with supported vulnerable homeless people into sheltered accommodation across Shropshire. This specific campaign resulted in an additional 8 temporary Support Worker and Supported Housing Officers being sourced over a six-month period.

Testimonial

"I have been using Sellick Partnership recruitment for many years and formed great relationships with the consultants there. They are so helpful when looking for a specialist area of work or a person with certain skills. Whenever there is a problem it is dealt with straight away, I really couldn’t ask for a more efficient service with a friendly approach. It’s a 5 star service."

Michaela Britner, Community Support Team Lead