Property Specialist in Redditch

Homelessness and Housing Solutions Officer Redditch Contract £30 per hour limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35 Our client is looking for an experienced Homelessness and Housing Solutions Officer. • At least 3 years of experience in Homeless & Housing Solutions ***MUST HAVE HOMLESSNESS REDUCTION ACT 2017 AND PART 7 OF THE 1996 HOUSING ACT EXPEREINCE *** We have a number of opportunities we are recruiting for visit our website for more details colbernlimited co uk Main duties • Deliver superior quality Homelessness and Housing Solutions and Advice Services that are customer centric and have high regard for equality, diversity, understanding and respect for people and their individual circumstances. • Professionally and effectively manage a designated caseload by thoroughly assessing, researching, analysing, and applying the most up to date case law to homeless applications across all tenures to conclude a robust legal decision on behalf of the Council. • Ensure that any reports are written with a high degree of diligence, rationality, and quality, so that legal decisions are “right first time”. • Ensure that those applicants for whom the Council has a statutory duty to provide temporary accommodation are placed into accommodation that best meets their needs and in strict accordance with legislation and guidance. • Be aware of the requirement for prudent control of expenditure, particularly for the provision of temporary accommodation and use of grant funding, always acting with a high degree of integrity and transparency and in accordance with financial regulation and policy. • Upon request, assist and support colleagues in the roles of providing temporary accommodation to applicants under assessment with managing and monitoring the licence agreement, including but not limited to, management of any breaches to the terms of the licence, charges, and welfare benefits. • Through casework, teamwork and partnership working, ensure that any housing solution or package of solutions are wholly sustainable and that the expectations of both the applicants and associated stakeholders are effectively managed. • Maximise opportunities to nurture and develop relationships with Private Sector (PRS) Landlords in the discharge of duties, ensuring that any such initiatives or schemes to prevent homelessness in, or access to the PRS are maximised. • Prepare and maintain accurate and up to date case files that provide management with enough information to monitor, audit and report on individual and team performance and for the Council to meet its duties to provide various statutory and non-statutory submissions and returns. • Ensure you maintain and share up-to-date knowledge of housing legislation including the Housing Act, Homelessness Reduction Act, Codes of Guidance, case law, safeguarding and other best practice. • Be responsible and accountable for the performance of yourself, your team, and the service, regularly reporting and feeding back on performance and being outspoken on perceived risks or threats to the service or on any emerging opportunities to improve what we do. • Write reports and submissions that respond to requests for information and statistical data from various sources, including management and other Council officers when required. • Operate in accordance with all Council policies, guidance, and codes PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES colbernlimited co uk The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer