Easylet Worker

**Role / team**

Easylet is a scheme to increase access to properties for people facing homelessness. It includes access to a professional rental management service run by Plymouth Homes4Let (PH4L), a local letting agency. Path, PH4L and Plymouth City Council (PCC) work together to ensure that Easylet makes letting easy for landlords, whilst providing much needed accommodation for people in housing need.

Easylet is a scheme to identify and potentially take on properties with a focus on standards; therefore whilst it provides a service to local landlords (LLs), it also helps raise standards in the PRS in Plymouth and helps house people otherwise vulnerable to homelessness.

A specific, primary focus for this role is on securing and supporting shared housing for single people presenting as homeless. Houses taken on will be managed by PH4L.

**Path Role**

The role of Path, and therefore Path’s workers, in Easylet includes the follow duties and tasks:

- Sourcing properties
- Sourcing tenants
- Move Ins
- Regular communal / Room Checks
- Repairs
- Dealing with Issues arising

**Roles of others**:

- PCC Community Connections Team nominates potential tenants, and refers landlords
- PH4L manages tenancies and properties; rent, notices to quit, court etc

**Accommodation for single people**
Securing properties for single people will often mean finding and working with shared houses; but may mean utilising 1 or 2 bed units. Duties therefore include:

- Monitoring needs at any time
- Working with landlords over standards, any works and availability
- Work with partners to ensure that people and properties are matched and that move-ins are successful

**General / other**
- The nature of this scheme means that the role features a degree of development work, being responsive to the needs of partners, as well as landlords.
- Developing & maintaining Easylet literature, monitoring systems & referral procedures
- Recording and reporting on work done, including quarterly narrative and statistical reports
- Keeping up-to-date with relevant legislation and other developments
- Participation in team, staff and other meetings, as required
- Representing Path at relevant events and functions
- Other duties as required by line manager or Director
- Compliance with Path Worker Conditions.

**Easylet scheme**
This role will contribute to supporting and helping manage all existing Easylet properties which PH4L oversees day-to-day, as well as taking on additional properties.

**Responsibilities**

This role includes (some or all of) the following:
Responsibility for responses to and prioritization of enquiries and cases
- Formally deciding about priorities and capacity of service.

Undertaking needs and risk assessments
- Assessing the needs of clients (usually nominated by CC), prioritizing for viewings and offers of accommodation.

Managing risk
- Managing types of risk including: property standards and safety; client safety; safety of others; interests of others; reputation of Path. NB All workers are expected to address safety of self.

Case Coordinator
- In terms of taking on properties, this role will be the case coordinator, the worker who leads on the case, on assessment, advice and recording, as well as liaising with relevant others.

Anti-Social Hours
- Work may be required outside office hours, such as before 8.00 or after 18.00, either regularly or as needed but with formal commitment to work flexibly.

Responsibility for agreements
- This role takes responsibility for entering into agreements, in particular, with landlords, for their properties to be managed through Easylet.

Formally representing Path services
- Ie Doing this above being a Path staff member (at training, in meetings, as we would expect anyone to do), particularly in terms of contributing at higher level mtgs / events. This is about active participation and representation.

Direct responsibilities for targets
- Being directly accountable against targets and monitoring against them to adjust performance.

**Salary**: From £21,300.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Childcare
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

COVID-19 considerations:
Hybrid working

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving License (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Plymouth PL1 1PY