Homeless Prevention & Assessment Officer
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £24.00 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2024 |
| Location: | Wirral, Cheshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Brackenberry Limited |
| Job type: | Contract |
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Summary
We are working closely alongside a Local Authority in Wirral to assist with the appointment of a Homeless Prevention & Assessment Officer, on a 3-month contract, likely to be extended at clients discretion. Please apply with your CV for immediate consideration.
Rate of Pay: £24.00 - £30.02 per Hour
Responsibilities:
Ensure that housing advice and assistance is given to all clients with due regard to housing legislation (under the 1996 Housing Act, Homelessness Act 2002 & Childrens Act 1989) within the agreed timescales ensuring compliance to the requirements of the legislation.
Identify problems causing potential homelessness and provide tailored solutions, advice and assistance to facilitate and secure alternative settled accommodation and prevent homeless.
Provide advice and assistance to clients with complex needs and sign post to the relevant services and support
Keep up to date with all current housing and benefits legislation to ensure compliance.
Ensure that Families and individuals are placed appropriately in temporary accommodation that fully meet their needs, ensuring that move on plans are in place and that clients do not exceed legal deadlines.
Requirements:
Able to negotiate and work assertively, yet in a sensitive manner, with those who are potentially homeless to ensure that they achieve a realistic understanding of their situation and to discuss the options available to them
Substantial experience of interviewing and negotiation skills including direct experience of working to prevent homelessness.
Experience of homelessness and housing advice work.
Please note:
You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
You should have right to work in U.K
This role requires an enhanced DBS
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
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Rate of Pay: £24.00 - £30.02 per Hour
Responsibilities:
Ensure that housing advice and assistance is given to all clients with due regard to housing legislation (under the 1996 Housing Act, Homelessness Act 2002 & Childrens Act 1989) within the agreed timescales ensuring compliance to the requirements of the legislation.
Identify problems causing potential homelessness and provide tailored solutions, advice and assistance to facilitate and secure alternative settled accommodation and prevent homeless.
Provide advice and assistance to clients with complex needs and sign post to the relevant services and support
Keep up to date with all current housing and benefits legislation to ensure compliance.
Ensure that Families and individuals are placed appropriately in temporary accommodation that fully meet their needs, ensuring that move on plans are in place and that clients do not exceed legal deadlines.
Requirements:
Able to negotiate and work assertively, yet in a sensitive manner, with those who are potentially homeless to ensure that they achieve a realistic understanding of their situation and to discuss the options available to them
Substantial experience of interviewing and negotiation skills including direct experience of working to prevent homelessness.
Experience of homelessness and housing advice work.
Please note:
You should be available to work immediately or at a short notice.
You should have right to work in U.K
This role requires an enhanced DBS
Disclaimer: Brackenberry Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. We are committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Unless otherwise stated all of our roles are temporary, though assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary. Your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
#RQ1246274