We are looking for an experienced Housing Options Officer.
Housing Officer
From £29 p/h
Contract, 37 hours per week
Watling, Bedfordshire
We are currently looking for a Housing Officer with 6 months experience to provide tenancy and neighbourhood management services for a specified area, ensuring that services are customer focused.
Roles and Responsibilities
– Act as a single point of contact for preventing homelessness where possible and focus on coordinating the response to Ukraine households where accommodation is unsuitable or relationships have broken down.
– Be responsible for assessing homeless applications.
– Be able to provide housing advice to prevent and alleviate homelessness.
Experience and Requirements
– Be able to assess homeless applications, make homelessness inquiries and produce personalised housing plans, and issue s184 homeless decisions.
– Demonstrate evidence of working for a local authority in a Housing Options Team.
– Would need to be able to travel across Central Bedfordshire if required.
– Experience of using housing Locata/jigsaw is desirable not essential.
Will predominately be working from home however is required to provide office cover when applicable.
If you are a Housing Officer and are looking for a new position, then send over your up-to-date CV directly or apply now.
