To provide a comprehensive high quality homeless prevention, support and advice service to all households who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.
General
To demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Homelessness legislation and case law coupled with hands-on experience of preventing homelessness and making statutory decisions.
To provide an assessment service to customers presenting to the Council to ascertain what duties are owed to them by the authority and what alternative housing options are available to them.
Adecco are supporting a London Borough Council in a role as an Healthcare Navigator
About Our Client
Join our client, a London Borough Council, and play a crucial role in the resettlement of rough sleepers by providing specialist intervention and a multi-disciplinary approach.
To ensure occupants of temporary accommodation receive appropriate advice on their housing options and support in their efforts to obtain permanent accommodation, referring vulnerable applicants for appropriate support so they can successfully sustain their accommodation.
To ensure that licensees in temporary accommodation abide by the conditions of licence paying particular attention to rental payments, ensuring tenant-like conduct and occupation, taking enforcement action in accordance with procedures and referring complex cases to other specialist Teams as directed.
The role
To assume responsibility for a portfolio of temporary accommodation and its occupants; to ensure providers/ contractors adhere to terms and conditions of the contract and that all accommodation meets Health and Safety standards and Council requirements.
Shift rota- Earlies, Lates, Weekends, Bank Holidays.
General
At Riverside we recruit to potential not just on skills and experience, so we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the essential criteria on the job description.
If you share our values and are excited about making a significant impact at Riverside, please ensure you attach a current CV and covering letter.
Do you have experience as a Housing Needs Officer who can give constructive housing advice and provide homelessness services?
The London Borough of Slough are offering a Housing Needs Officer role to an individual who can tackle housing needs and prevent homelessness in accordance with relevant legislation, policies and procedures.
Being enthusiastic, focussed and able to deliver high quality services is required within the role.
The Learning and Development Team is part of the Benefits and Homelessness Prevention Service.
This London Borough has one of the highest Housing Benefit caseloads in London and receives an average of nearly 4,000 homelessness approaches a year.
The service is high-performing and is committed to helping residents and the challenges they face while supporting staff to perform to the high standards of the service.