Homelessness & Housing Solutions Officer

Description:

Belmont Recruitment are currently looking for a Homelessness & Housing Solutions Officer to join Bromsgrove District & Redditch Borough Council on an initial 3 month temporary contract. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Key Responsibilities

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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.

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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.

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Ensure that any reports are written with a high degree of diligence, rationality, and quality, so that legal decisions are “right first time”.

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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.

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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.

Essential Requirements

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Experience working as a homelessness & housing solutions officer for over 12-24 months

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Basic DBS

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Part 6 & 7 experience

Please apply with an up to date CV ASAP if this role would be of interest to you