- Pay Rate:
£19.06 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
- ISLINGTON, London,
N1 1XR
Full Job Title: Temporary Income Recovery Officer - Housing
Reference no: Islington RQ648266
Enhanced DBS disclosure required
To assist the Team Leader and Income Recovery Manager in providing an effective Rent Arrears service.
To collect all income due in line with targets, providing benefits advice, agreeing / negotiating appropriate repayment plans and undertaking legal action relating to Rent Arrears as necessary, including issue of NOSPS, preparation of Court papers, variation orders, eviction reports, execution of warrants and attending evictions.
“Specific Role Requirements” – to give yourself the maximum chance of success please try and ensure your CV addresses the following essential criteria:
- Knowledge & Experience:
- Minimum of 12 months recent income recovery experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation
- Experience of working in a Social Housing environment and involvement within income recovery.
- Experience of working in, and delivering services to, a multi-cultural community.
- To have an understanding of housing benefits sufficient to provide general advice to service users.
- Skills & Abilities:
- Ability to deal with correspondence from a wide group of people and agencies.
- Ability to conduct effective interviews with service users.
- Excellent verbal and communication skills and be numerate applicable to the requirements of the post.
- Ability to write reports to a good standard which enables senior officers to make relevant recommendations or decisions.
- Ability to ensure effective use of information technology, including word processing, in order to input and extract information
- Ability to think creatively in order to anticipate and solve problems, and to take corrective action where necessary.
- Ability to adopt a flexible approach to team working, be self-motivated and to be able to demonstrate an ability to work on your own initiative.
- ICT Skills: Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite)
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. SEE DETAILS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS AD.
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Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
“Other Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
- 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.
- *** Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
- *** Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
- 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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