Offender Housing Resettlement Officer- Housing

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Cleantech Full time

**What's involved with this role**:
**Ref number: Southwark RQ1381547**

**_Enhanced DBS required for this role_**

An Offender Housing Resettlement Officer is needed for 2 to 3 months.

The team requires someone who has experience of working with ex-offenders in housing need and with an understanding of the support available to them on release from prison.

You will lead on assessing and supporting this cohort to secure accommodation in the private rented sector procured by colleagues within the councils supported lettings team following the completion of an affordability assessment.

There will be an element of work around expectation management with customers in relation to affordability, risks and areas where they can live. Once moved in you will lead on providing resettlement support for up to 12 weeks to support customers to settle in accommodation.

**Key Responsibilities:
**- To support and coordinate support services and information to homeless ex-offenders to enable them to acquire accommodation in the private rented sector, to live independently and to maintain their tenancies.
- To liaise with key partners and stakeholders and ensure that additional support such as mental health, drugs and alcohol recovery are provided for customers that are in need.
- To promote the use of the private rented sector as a viable alternative to social rented housing, in order to encourage independence, prevent homelessness, provide settled housing solutions and reduce the Council’s use of temporary accommodation.

**Skills & Experience:
**- Experience of working with ex
- offenders in housing need including those with varying support needs providing advice, assistance and support.
- Experience of and be able to demonstrate the ability to motivate individuals.
- Experience of co-ordinating solution focused action plans that involves other agencies as needed and encourages customers to take responsibility for all areas of their lives and promote healthy, successful outcomes that are holistic, yet realistic.
- Good knowledge of the law governing homelessness and an understanding of current issues in housing.
- Awareness of issues and challenges facing ex offenders and solutions to resolve homelessness
- Knowledge of housing benefit rules and regulations, welfare benefits and issues relating to private rented tenancies.

**_Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service._**

**_To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not 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 at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than 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._**

Am **Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please

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