We see people properly, including colleagues. The work matters, and so does the person doing it.
People, not perfect CVs
Good people can build meaningful careers here.
Accommodation Concern is made up of people who care deeply about doing useful work well. Our teams help people facing homelessness, financial hardship and difficult moments in their lives.
The work can be challenging, but it is practical, human and capable of making a lasting difference. We do not expect people to arrive with every answer already.
Our values at work
How we recruit, support and grow people.
We welcome different routes, backgrounds, lived experience and transferable skills.
We value practical people who can turn care into useful action.
We support people through pressure, uncertainty and difficult moments without losing ourselves.
Warmth matters. So do safeguarding, quality, governance and follow-through.
Careers can grow here
There is no single route through AC.
Development should lead somewhere. People at AC have moved between services, taken on new responsibilities, completed training and developed into specialist, management and leadership roles.
You may already have years of experience in housing, advice or support. You may be moving into the charity sector. You may bring transferable skills, relevant lived experience or the potential to grow into a role with the right training and support.
Our CEO joined AC as a Debt Adviser before progressing through management and leadership roles.
Our Executive Director began as an Executive Assistant, progressed to Business Director and now helps lead the organisation.
Our Operations Manager joined through the government's post-Covid Kickstart scheme and progressed into responsibility for major frontline services.
Learning is part of the job
We will help you build the knowledge to do the work well.
Our services cover complex areas including housing, homelessness, welfare benefits, debt, safeguarding and supported accommodation. Depending on your role, development may include:
Structured inductionShadowingInternal and external trainingRegular supervisionReflective practiceSpecialist housing, benefits or debt trainingSafeguardingTrauma-informed practiceRelevant qualificationsLeadership development
Benefits of working at AC
Fair pay, wellbeing support and practical benefits.
Fair pay
AC is an accredited Real Living Wage Employer. Paying it reflects a simple principle: people doing important work should receive fair pay for it.
Wellbeing support
Employees have access to our confidential Health Assured Employee Assistance Programme, including a 24/7 helpline, counselling, virtual GP appointments, coaching and practical legal, financial, family and medical information.
Discounts and savings
Employees can access Charity Worker Discounts, including offers on holidays, shopping, gym memberships, mobile phones and household costs.
Company Shop
Staff may be eligible to join Company Shop, providing access to discounted food and household products.
Workplace wellbeing
Support for people doing demanding frontline work.
Supporting people through homelessness, poverty and crisis can carry an emotional weight. We take staff wellbeing seriously and invest in support that is practical and easy to access.
We also use reflective practice, regular supervision and open conversations about wellbeing to support colleagues working in demanding frontline roles.
An inclusive place to work
Different routes into this work are welcome.
AC is a Disability Confident Committed employer. We want disabled and neurodivergent applicants to be able to participate fully in our recruitment process and working environment.
We welcome conversations about reasonable adjustments and will consider what support can be put in place at every stage. Our current Disability Confident Committed status runs until October 2027.
We also welcome applications from people of different ages, backgrounds, cultures and experiences. Lived experience of homelessness, financial difficulty, disability or using support services can bring valuable insight when combined with appropriate boundaries and professional standards.
What working here feels like
Ambitious about impact, still human in how we work.
We are not interested in becoming a faceless organisation. We work hard, sometimes with complicated situations, but we also laugh, support one another and celebrate the moments when practical help changes someone's life.
Friendly and direct
People talk to each other like human beings and try to solve the thing in front of them.
Serious about quality
Safeguarding, standards, supervision and governance matter here.
Willing to improve
We try new ideas, learn from mistakes and keep building better services.
Current vacancies
Could AC be your next step?
You do not need to match every line of a job description before considering an application. Read the essential requirements carefully, but do not rule yourself out simply because your route has been different.
To enquire about any of the roles below and request the application form link, email HR@a-c.org.uk.
Full time
Employment Coach
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week
- Salary
- £27,982.50 per annum
- Base
- Various sites across Northamptonshire, including AC offices, outreach, partner and NHFT-linked settings.
Provide personalised, trauma-informed employability support, helping people build confidence, address barriers and move towards employment, education, training or volunteering.
Request application linkPart time
Benefits Advisor
- Hours
- 18.5 hours per week
- Salary
- £13.45 per hour / £12,940.85 per annum
- Contract
- Until 31 March 2027
Deliver welfare benefits advice and casework, supporting people with entitlement checks, forms, mandatory reconsiderations, income maximisation and wider referrals.
Request application linkFull time
Housing and Tenancy Sustainment Advisor
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week
- Salary
- £13.45 per hour / £26,227.50 per annum
- Base
- North Northamptonshire offices, outreach venues, partner locations and community settings.
Combine housing advice with practical tenancy sustainment support for people at risk of homelessness, tenancy breakdown or housing instability.
Request application linkFull time
Housing Advisor
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week
- Salary
- £13.45 per hour / £26,227.50 per annum
- Focus
- Housing insecurity, homelessness risk and tenancy-related financial hardship.
Provide independent housing advice and casework, helping residents understand their rights, prevent homelessness and access wider financial resilience support.
Request application link