Job Description

What's involved with this role:

Contract to start on 21-05-23 until 18-08-23 with a possible extension.

Key Duties:

• Manage the day to day delivery of the client’s specialist statutory homelessness services, namely a team of Specialist Housing Coordinators and Homeless and Immigration Officers within the Resettlement and Resilience Teams. Your focus will be to assist single homeless service users approaching from prison and hospital, applicants fleeing domestic abuse and homeless families with NRPF.

• To be responsible for the provision of a quality service of information, advice and casework service to fulfil the authority’s statutory homelessness functions, including the prevention and relief duties and homelessness assessment duty

• Ensure the robust assessment and management of homelessness applications in accordance with homelessness legislation, code of guidance, policies and procedures, ensuring effective work allocation and legal challenges to decisions are kept under review, by assessing performance, risk, cost and the need for operational policy changes • Ensure appropriate quality advice and assistance is provided everyone in housing needs

• Manage & develop the client’s function to defend possession proceedings at court, in order to fulfil the client’s enforcement role in preventing illegal evictions, tenant harassment and ensuring that landlords follow the correct legal procedure to evict tenants.

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Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £28.09 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: RQ905106-05-23

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