- Pay Rate:
£24.25 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1-2 months
- MORDEN, LONDON,
SM4 5DX
Interim Senior Options Advisor - Housing
Reference no: Merton 5235093
Pay Rate: £24.25 per hour PAYE
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 1-2 months
City: MORDEN, LONDON
Hybrid working - Must be able to attend the office x3 days per week.
To provide a proactive, high quality customer focused range of services to customers who approach the Housing Needs and Enabling Service for assistance. Working closely with the Housing Advice and Options Manager to provide a range of services, which respond to both current and future housing needs within the borough and where the prevention of homelessness is of paramount importance.
Key Responsibilities:
- To effectively manage resources in the options and advice team in order to respond to all potential and existing demands for accommodation or advice
- To take an innovative and quality driven approach to service development
- To provide a service which meets the needs of all tenures and all customers requiring a housing needs service
- To provide an efficient and effective service to homeless households approaching the council and carry out the council’s statutory functions in line with all the relevant legislation
- To achieve such targets and objectives that may be set for the service by the Housing Needs and Enabling Manager, or the Government and to monitor and assess service provision
- To establish positive working relationships with other departments, external agencies and voluntary groups involved in the provision of services to customers in housing need
- To ensure the council meets its statutory obligations in relation to the provision of advice and information about the prevention homelessness
- To be responsible for the management of applications made for assistance with housing under the terms of the Housing Act 1996 or any other relevant legislation and to approve the applications as appropriate. To ensure that potential fraudulent cases are investigated and appropriate action taken.
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Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Knowledge:
- In depth knowledge of housing legislation, regulations, case law and codes of practice as applied to local authority housing and private sector housing
- Have a knowledge of the needs of our customers, for example the homeless, older people, mental health and learning disabilities, families with children, young people and victims of domestic violence and harassment.
Experience:
- Two years experience in housing needs or related disciplines
Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to lead, manage, develop and motivate a team of staff and to be self-motivated to achieve objectives and performance targets under the pressure of deadlines
- Ability to plan and organise own work and work of staff, including setting objectives and performance standards and targets
- Ability to translate, verbally and in writing, complex housing legislation, regulations, case law to customers and staff
- Ability to monitor and review performance to initiate action and to implement changes in policy, procedures and practices
- Ability to communicate effectively both when amending meetings externally and internally with the Housing Needs and Enabling Service and the council generally
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