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Homelessness & Housing Solutions Officer

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	20 Chwefror 2025
Cyflog:	£24.00 yr awr
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	per hour PAYE
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	21 Mawrth 2025
Lleoliad:	Redditch, Worcestershire, B98 8AH
Cwmni:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Math o swydd:	Dros dro
Cyfeirnod swydd:	Bromsgrove and Redditch RQ1474084

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What's involved with this role:

Temporary Homelessness & Housing Solutions Officer

Reference no: Bromsgrove and Redditch RQ1474084

Basic DBS disclosure required for this role

Hybrid working – 2 days a week in the office

Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:

You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
This is a temporary role, initially 3 months. Please do not apply if you are seeking a permanent position.

Key Requirements:

At least 3 years demonstrable experience working in a homelessness, housing options or other relevant advice service.
In depth knowledge of legislation, regulation, and policy in relation to the provision of relevant services.
Experience of dealing with and managing complex and contentious issues and highly charged and emotive situations
Experience of casework and writing complex discursive reports.
Experience of service improvement and being involved projects.
Good general knowledge of legislation, regulation, and policy in relation to the provision of generic housing services.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
Full UK driving licence required for this role



The purpose of the role is to provide a professional and compliant specialist customer facing Homelessness and Housing Solutions service firmly focussed on the prevention and relief of homelessness through a range of housing options delivered across a range of tenure types.

Key responsibilities:

Responsible and accountable for the Local Authorities operations in accordance with its legal obligations to provide professional housing and homelessness advice services in accordance with: Part VI & VII Housing Act 1996 (as amended); Homelessness Reduction Act 2017; Welfare Reform, Safeguarding and the Children’s Act.
Support the strategic and operational managers in delivering the vision, strategies and initiatives for the Homelessness and Housing Solutions Team and the wider Housing Service of which you are an integral part.
Deliver superior quality Homelessness and Housing Solutions and Advice Services that are customer centric and have high regard for equality, diversity, understanding and respect for people and their individual circumstances.
Professionally and effectively manage a designated caseload by thoroughly assessing, researching, analysing, and applying the most up to date case law to homeless applications across all tenures to conclude a robust legal decision on behalf of the Council.
Ensure that any reports are written with a high degree of diligence, rationality, and quality, so that legal decisions are “right first time”.
Ensure that those applicants for whom the Council has a statutory duty to provide temporary accommodation are placed into accommodation that best meets their needs and in strict accordance with legislation and guidance.


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.


Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application should be clearly shown in your CV.



Due to the number of CVs being sent to us unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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Job Ref: Bromsgrove and Redditch RQ1474084


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.