Housing Advice

1 month ago

London, United Kingdom Akton Recruitment Full time

Uxbridge

£27 Per Hour

I am recruiting for a local authority who is looking for to take responsibility in proactively delivering Housing Options Advice, High End Triage service, investigating householder circumstances and undertaking statutory assessments in order to determine the best options and resources available on a case by case basis. You will ensure statutory requirements are met and local team targets are delivered through case work and referrals. Detailed knowledge of HRA and the relevant legislation is essential as is being extremely organised and ability to work on related project work linked with the role.

Job Role

You will be responsible for proactively delivering housing options advice,including security of tenure, low cost home ownership, preventing homelessness,investigating householder circumstances and undertaking statutory assessments in order to determine the best options and resources available on a case by case basis. This will involve carrying and managing a case load across housing options, move-on and
homeless prevention, to work with individuals supporting and directing clients to access a broad range of housing options and where appropriate making relevant onward referrals and signpost to other services. You will ensure statutory requirements are met
and local team targets are delivered through case work.

Key Duties

To ensure that potentially homeless clients are given advice and assistance including those in housing need to whom the Council has no legal obligation to provide emergency accommodation to claim housing and other welfare benefits available to them with the aim of preventing or delaying homelessness, including the use of discretionary hardship payments (DHP).

To contribute to preparing and implementing the housing strategy, homelessness strategy, rough sleepers' strategy, allocations policy as it relates to housing need, and to undertake projects related to the development of the service area.

Be able to provide advice on a range of housing options, including low cost home ownership which promotes self-service, independence and prevents homelessness.

To ensure that suitable housing solutions are delivered to residents consistently. This includes reducing the use of temporary accommodation and developing creative solutions to achieve this, including consistent use of the Social Housing Allocations Policy and the Private Rented Sector (PRS)

To be proactively managing complex case work and contributing to case reviews where residents are at risk of homelessness to effectively fulfil the Council statutory duties and resolve their homelessness and intervene immediately with cases to prevent crisis homelessness.

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