- Pay Rate:
£14.50 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
- Southwark, London,
SE1 2QH
Temporary Income Officer/Admin x 3 – Housing
Reference no: Southwark 5228879
Pay Rate: £14.50 per hour PAYE
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
Hybrid working after the initial 2 weeks of training.
Enhanced DBS disclosure required for this role
The assignment will be part of a team responsible for the collection of rent and service charge income, (both former and current accounts), for the Housing Department. This will include the monitoring of accounts to prevent arrears and taking appropriate action in the event of arrears.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide debt counselling and welfare benefit advice and assistance in a clear and sensitive manner, having reference to the levels of vulnerability and disadvantage within the borough.
- Make appropriate arrangements for the recovery of debts in accordance with Council policy, procedures and working practices.
- Where required prepare for, attend and represent the Council in Court with due regard for legal rules and protocols.
- Operate and utilise systems for the administration of direct payments, for the monitoring of Housing Benefits, for the monitoring of the performance of other service providers, for example for Legal Services, Tracing Agents, Housing and Council Tax Benefit.
- Undertake analysis of individual and collective debt trends from computer and manual records and to produce reports recommending courses of action to improve or maximise income collection.
- Undertake former tenant debt recovery procedures, including tracing former tenants using all available sources of information. Will make decisions and recommendations (subject to local scheme of management) on the use of tracing and debt collection agencies, on legal action and on the write-off of irrecoverable and bad debts.
- Undertake general customer service duties on a wide range of housing management enquiries.
- Ensure that service delivery is in line with equal opportunities policies, procedures and best practice.
“Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
Qualifications:
- Educated to ‘O’ level/GCSE standard or similar qualification.
Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
- Understanding of inner city housing issues.
- Knowledge of debt management procedures, including legal process, rent and service charge setting principles.
- Knowledge of computerised rental management systems.
- Working knowledge of DSS benefit levels and provisions (Desirable)
- Understanding of the issues relating to equal opportunities in service delivery.
- Experience in a customer facing role, ideally in a social housing field.
- Experienced in the application of housing revenue collection procedures and policies.
- Able to understand and effectively use rent accounting systems.
- Able to understand and effectively use legal processes.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours.
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Please refer to the Role Requirements section above - your CV must address the requirements listed.
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for.
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