Homelessness and Housing Solutions Officer
Redditch
Contract
£30 per hour limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced Homelessness and Housing Solutions Officer.
• At least 3 years of experience in Homeless & Housing Solutions
***MUST HAVE HOMLESSNESS REDUCTION ACT 2017 AND PART 7 OF THE 1996 HOUSING ACT EXPEREINCE ***
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Main duties
• Deliver superior quality Homelessness and Housing Solutions and Advice Services that
are customer centric and have high regard for equality, diversity, understanding and
respect for people and their individual circumstances.
• Professionally and effectively manage a designated caseload by thoroughly assessing,
researching, analysing, and applying the most up to date case law to homeless
applications across all tenures to conclude a robust legal decision on behalf of the
Council.
• Ensure that any reports are written with a high degree of diligence, rationality, and
quality, so that legal decisions are “right first time”.
• Ensure that those applicants for whom the Council has a statutory duty to provide
temporary accommodation are placed into accommodation that best meets their needs
and in strict accordance with legislation and guidance.
• Be aware of the requirement for prudent control of expenditure, particularly for the
provision of temporary accommodation and use of grant funding, always acting with a
high degree of integrity and transparency and in accordance with financial regulation
and policy.
• Upon request, assist and support colleagues in the roles of providing temporary
accommodation to applicants under assessment with managing and monitoring the
licence agreement, including but not limited to, management of any breaches to the
terms of the licence, charges, and welfare benefits.
• Through casework, teamwork and partnership working, ensure that any housing solution
or package of solutions are wholly sustainable and that the expectations of both the
applicants and associated stakeholders are effectively managed.
• Maximise opportunities to nurture and develop relationships with Private Sector (PRS)
Landlords in the discharge of duties, ensuring that any such initiatives or schemes to
prevent homelessness in, or access to the PRS are maximised.
• Prepare and maintain accurate and up to date case files that provide management with
enough information to monitor, audit and report on individual and team performance
and for the Council to meet its duties to provide various statutory and non-statutory
submissions and returns.
• Ensure you maintain and share up-to-date knowledge of housing legislation including
the Housing Act, Homelessness Reduction Act, Codes of Guidance, case law,
safeguarding and other best practice.
• Be responsible and accountable for the performance of yourself, your team, and the
service, regularly reporting and feeding back on performance and being outspoken on
perceived risks or threats to the service or on any emerging opportunities to improve
what we do.
• Write reports and submissions that respond to requests for information and statistical
data from various sources, including management and other Council officers when
required.
• Operate in accordance with all Council policies, guidance, and codes
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The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer