Housing Solutions Officer X2

What's involved with this role:
Temporary Housing Solutions Officer x2
Reference no: Middlesbrough 1004694515001445
Pay rate: £13.92 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35-37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 3 months
City: MIDDLESBROUGH
Enhanced DBS required for this role
A Housing Solutions Officer is required to carry out homelessness assessments in like with the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 in relation to supporting service users and their children and make all necessary statutory decisions throughout the application process, assess the needs of the service user and formulate a personal housing plan. To provide comprehensive information, advice, and guidance to service users and landlords with the aim of preventing homelessness where possible and helping to source alternative accommodation when prevention is not possible.
Key responsibilities:
Responsible for arranging temporary accommodation, making referrals to supported accommodation services and assisting service users to obtain accommodation in the private and social sectors where necessary.
Work with the Council’s commissioned safe accommodation services or, where not available or appropriate, secure safe accommodation out of area.
Carry out homelessness assessments in like with the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, and the Domestic Abuse Act 2021 in relation to supporting service users and their children and make all necessary statutory decisions throughout the application process, assess the needs of the service user, and formulate a personal housing plan.
Provide comprehensive information, advice, and guidance to service users and landlords with the aim of preventing homelessness where possible and helping the source alternative accommodation when prevention is not possible.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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:
Experience:
Experience of working effectively with a range of services.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Experience working with complex service users in a multi-agency setting and collaborating with partners.
Understanding of legislative, guidance, and policy frameworks related to housing assessments.
Skills & Abilities:
Skills, passion and resilience to work creatively with service users.
Ability to manage a busy and varied caseload effectively.
Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to provide clear advice and guidance to service users.
Strong attention to detail and accurate record-keeping abilities.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***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.
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.
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Job Ref: Middlesbrough 1004694515001445
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.
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Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.