Housing Fraud Officer

**What's involved with this role**:
**Temporary**
**Housing Fraud Officer - Housing**
**Reference no: Dudley TCL 79767**
**Pay rate: £99.97 per day PAYE**
**Hours per week: 35-37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours**
**This opening assignment is for 6 months**
**City: DUDLEY** A Housing Fraud Officer is required to deliver Housing Services response to Social Housing Fraud, to deliver on the detection, investigation and prosecution relating to housing fraud and to identify and implement measures to counter fraud and prevent its occurrence. Key responsibilities:

- Responsible for responding to, investigating, and resolving reports of housing fraud.
- Responsible for the development and delivery of fraud prevention and the development and monitoring of systems to detect fraud.
- Ensure timely and accurate recording of all relevant information on managed cases on databases and Electronic Document Management Systems.
- Closely liaise with all housing and other relevant teams to meet business and service objectives, maintaining excellent working relationships.
- Assist colleagues and demonstrate flexibility and contribute to effective teamwork.
- Promote community cohesion, social inclusion, diversity, and equal opportunities through the delivery of housing services.
- Maintain an awareness and assist in the delivery of directorate strategic plans, divisional plans and directorate and corporate strategies.
- Make effective use of information and communications technology in service delivery.
- Deliver Housing Services response to Social Housing Fraud across the Borough.
- Raise awareness of the work done to prevent and tackle tenancy fraud amongst tenants, residents and other stakeholders.

**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.**

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

- Educated to 'A' level standard or above.
- Hold or be willing to work towards a relevant professional qualification.

**Experience &**
**Knowledge**:

- Able to demonstrate a sound knowledge of accepted good practice in housing fraud investigations and prevention within the social housing sector.
- Able to demonstrate personal planning and prioritising work to meet competing deadlines.
- Experience of personal contributions to service improvement.
- Experience of performance monitoring and improvement.
- Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.

**Skills & Abilities**:

- A high level of communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisational and problem solving skills.
- Able to analyse and interpret complex information and use it in individual casework
- Ability to secure the co-operation of others in delivering the service.
- A good team player but also to work autonomously and make difficult decisions when required.
- Able to write letters and produce information in plain accurate English to communicate effectively to a wide variety of audiences.
- Flexible and prepared to work outside normal office hours according to the needs of the service.
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

**Job Ref: Dudley TCL 79767**

**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.