Housing Property Specialist

Housing Advice and Prevention Officer
Lowestoft
Contract
£22.20 per hour PAYE or £30 per hour limited paid via umbrella company inside IR35
Our client is looking for an experienced Housing Advice and Prevention Officer
Mainly working from home. Can send equipment out. Do have team meetings some face to face.
Basic DBS required
Sits within housing needs team. Experience around housing advice and homelessness. Housing team in a local authority, assessing homelessness, writing homeless decisions. Parts 6 and 7 of housing act. Used the system they have used – Civica.
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To support the Senior Housing Needs Officer to carry out the following duties in each of the following service areas:
1. To assess and verify all applications made under Part 6 of the Housing Act 1996 in line with the current Allocations Policy including requests for reviews of the Council’s decision on the applicants housing priority/status.
1. To assess and determine the Councils statutory homeless duty towards people under Part 7 the Housing Act 1996 that present to the Council for assistance in line with the homeless legislation, case law, and statutory code of guidance.
2. To participate in the Council’s housing advice and assistance duty rota, telephone duty, home visits, and out of hours standby rota including responsibility for an assigned specialist area of expertise linked to a wide range of client groups/schemes.
3. To undertake active homelessness casework to prevent or relieve homelessness using your prerequisite expertise, knowledge, and skills to deploy a range of interventions including in-house private rented sector access schemes and applications to the register.
4. To manage a varied and complex caseload, supporting customers at application stage, through to the bidding and offer stage, keeping an accurate account of all relevant information to ensure decisions are reached within target and that they are correctly documented.
5. Interview and investigate homeless applicants and customers threatened with homelessness in the most appropriate way to determine their housing need and circumstances, being aware of current homelessness legislation.
6. To ensure robust, accurate and consistent casework, including but not limited to:
Eligibility and Qualification for housing, support to care leavers, homelessness investigations and prevention advice, veterans and members of the Armed Forces, prisoner resettlement, MAPPA, MARAC, supported and Move On accommodation, domestic Abuse, violence, anti-social behaviour, threatening and coercive behaviour, safeguarding, property condition and tenancy sustainment, income assessments and referrals to specialist income advisors and attending case conferences and other forums as required.
7. To ensure the casework is recorded in line with laid down procedure and statutory guidance.
8. To be responsible for the overall administration of the Housing Need Service including the monitoring and maximisation of income associated with the provision of emergency and temporary accommodation, and the Councils Private Rented Sector Access Schemes.
9. To assess against funding criteria when financial assistance is required and provide a recommendation for approval to the Team Leader in order to assists with Homelessness Prevention.
10. To work in partnership with Statutory and Voluntary Agencies on cases involving acute housing need.
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