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Housing Registration Assessment Officer/Admin-Social Housing

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Posting date: 23 April 2024
Salary: £13.74 per hour
Additional salary information: per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 22 May 2024
Location: Coalville, Leicestershire, LE67 3FJ
Company: Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type: Temporary
Job reference: NW Leicestershire TCL 5247874

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What's involved with this role:

Temporary Housing Registration Assessment Officer/Admin – Social Housing

Job Ref: NW Leicestershire TCL 5247874

Pay Rate: Up to £13.74 per hour PAYE depending on experience

Hours per week: 36.25 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 1-2 months

City: Coalville, Leicestershire

The purpose of the role is to administer the council’s housing register, providing support to customers requesting rehousing, processing housing applications in a timely and accurate manner and ensuring that the council’s allocations policy is applied consistently and fairly.

Key Responsibilities:

Assist potential and newly registered home seekers as required in understanding and accessing Council’s choice-based lettings scheme.
Assist vulnerable home seekers as required with the bidding process to ensure the scheme is fully accessible.
Administer applications for the housing register in line with policy and within agreed timescales, ensuring that necessary proofs are sourced and complete, inputting data onto the system and ensuring assessments of housing need are accurate.
Activate completed and fully validated housing register applications and notify the priority need Band to home seekers within agreed timescales so that they can begin to bid for homes.
Deal with enquiries, complaints and other correspondence relating to the housing register, within agreed timescales.
Assist in a periodic review of the housing register in line with policy requirements.



NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Qualifications:

GCSE English and Maths (grades A-C) or equivalent NVQ qualifications.



Skills & Experience:

Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Able to quickly build and maintain rapport with customers.
Experience of working in a social housing environment.
Experience of using Microsoft office.

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Job Ref: NW Leicestershire TCL 5247874


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

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.

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