At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide housing advice and support to prevent homelessness in a dynamic team.
- Company: Join East Suffolk Council's Housing Needs Team with a focus on community impact.
- Benefits: Competitive pay, mainly remote work, and a supportive team environment.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in people's lives while developing your skills in housing.
- Qualifications: Experience in local authority housing and homelessness assessment is essential.
Lynx Employment Services is recruiting for an experienced Housing Advice & Prevention Officer to join the Housing Needs Team at East Suffolk Council. This role is ideally suited to someone with local authority housing and homelessness experience who is confident assessing homelessness applications and making and writing homelessness decisions.
The role
- Working within the Housing Needs Team, providing housing advice and homelessness prevention support.
- Experience of assessing homelessness applications.
- Providing housing advice and homelessness prevention support.
- Writing homelessness decisions.
- Working within a local authority housing team.
- Applying Parts 6 and 7 of the Housing Act.
- Managing housing/homelessness cases.
- Using housing case-management systems – Civica experience is particularly desirable.
Contract details
- Location: East Suffolk
- Rate: £22.20 per hour PAYE / £30.00 per hour Umbrella
- Hours: 37 hours per week
- Contract: 28 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
- IR35: Inside IR35
- Working arrangement: Mainly home-based/remote, with some face-to-face team meetings
- DBS: Basic DBS required
- Interview: Teams
Previous local authority homelessness experience is important for this position. To apply, please send your CV to Lynx Employment Services Ltd.
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