Accommodation Assessment and Lettings Officer
| Posting date: | 15 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £22.78 per hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 August 2025 |
| Location: | Catford, London, SE6 4RU |
| Company: | Daniel Owen Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 170620252_1752585336 |
Summary
Accommodation Assessment and Lettings Officer
South East London, Catford
Temporary
Monday - Friday (35 hours)
£22.78 per hour
Social Housing Experience Needed
Daniel Owen are proud to be representing a well-known company based in the South East London, Catford area who are looking for a highly skilled Accommodation Assessment and Lettings Officer to join their team.
Key Duties - Accommodation Assessment and Lettings Officer:
- To arrange emergency, temporary accommodation placements and make appropriate
referrals into supported accommodation, ensuring all placements and referrals are carried
out in a timely manner, making the best use of all available housing stock at all times. - To make offers of properties in line with Housing legislation and make robust decisions to
discharge duty where necessary that will withstand legal scrutiny. - Co-ordinate available properties in the private rented sector and in conjunction with
Housing Caseworkers, identify highest priority households to be put forward for Direct Lets
to prevent and relieve homelessness. - To ensure high quality offers, suitability and discharge of duty decisions are made in a
timely manner relating to offers of properties (temporary accommodation & private rented
properties) - Ensure compliance with relevant legislation and guidelines so that accommodation is
allocated based on need and all offers of accommodation are suitable - Proactively contribute to the clients action plan to reduce the number of households in
temporary accommodation by monitoring and maximising move on opportunities from
temporary accommodation and supported housing. - Ensure accurate records are maintained of those in all types of emergency, temporary and
supported housing, maintaining statistical information for local and central government
statistical returns.