- Pay Rate:
£18.76 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
- KENSINGTON, London,
W8 7NX
Temporary Accommodation Solutions Officer – Housing Needs
Reference no: K&C 5235801
Pay rate: £18.76 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: KENSINGTON, London
An Accommodation Solutions Officer is required to support the Accommodation Solutions Team Managers in securing the continuous development, improvement, efficiency and success of the Temporary Accommodation and Resettlement team as a whole. To provide housing options advice to households in temporary accommodation and promote effective move-on to other permanent housing, including intermediate rent, private rented and social housing.
Key responsibilities:
- Follow policy and procedures to successfully place singles persons and families into suitable accommodation.
- Make the most appropriate, equitable and cost-effective use of available resources, ensuring that all lettings comply with statutory requirements and the Council’s policies.
- Undertake assessments of suitability when offering accommodation.
- Organise and/or facilitate with storage of goods and removals when necessary.
- Assist with the management of the team’s telephone lines and email inboxes and respond to customer queries regarding their accommodation.
- Liaise with the Procurement and Contract Management Team to ensure the most suitable available property is offered to the applicant.
- Complete housing benefit forms and other forms as required
- Refer households for floating support when the need for assistance is identified.
- Collect medical documents from the customer to appropriately refer an applicant for a medical review.
- Respond to requests for emergency transfers.
- Visit households in temporary accommodation to provide them with advice and guidance on the full range of housing options available to them and manage their expectations, taking into account their needs and aspirations, their priority on the Housing Register and ability to sustain other options, including intermediate housing options and private rented accommodation.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
- Grade C or above in GCSE Maths and English or equivalent qualifications.
Experience & Knowledge:
- Experience of delivering front line services to homeless households.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of housing needs issues, legislation, and case law, including lettings, and the housing register.
- An understanding of the government’s agenda on homelessness and welfare reform.
Skills & Abilities:
- Able to deal with emergency situations calmly and assertively.
- Attention to detail skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills including the write letters, emails, reports, and procedures using plain English.
- Ability to assess and communicate service issues and problems and identify and cost appropriate responses and solutions.
- Ability to manage a varied and demanding workload, and to provide a consistently high quality of work with limited supervision.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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