We are looking for someone who is a Homeless Prevention Officer with the following experience:
- To provide tailored advice on housing options, training & employment, wellbeing & welfare benefits/money management to customers threatened with homelessness or who are living in private rent accommodation or other settled non social housing
- To respond effectively to, prevent homelessness through advice, negotiation, mediation or conciliation, or by securing immediate access to alternative accommodation and generally promoting a housing options approach to service delivery to a full range of customers.
- To be responsible for managing a caseload, maintaining accurate, detailed casework records, identifying priorities and meeting individual and service performance targets.
- To maintain and develop extensive and specialist knowledge of housing options, homelessness law and practice and related fields including housing benefit and welfare rights.
- To deliver advice from drop in service and to attend advice and options surgeries and outreach sessions as required, and to visit people at home who are threatened with homelessness as necessary.
- To liaise proactively with the Private Sector Initiatives Team to match customers to available housing opportunities, and to plan the development and delivery of a range of housing options that meet customer need and where required to actively procure properties for tenants and clients in housing need to prevent homelessness.
- To keep abreast of all housing legislation and local and national policy and practice relating to private sector occupation, homelessness prevention and housing options, reporting on trends and new initiatives and making recommendations for change to policy and/or practice.
- To ensure the effective referral of all customers to partner service providers including to the Homelessness Assessment and Support Teams where homelessness cannot be prevented and the household wishes to pursue an application under Part VII, Homelessness Act 1996 (as amended) and to make recommendations regarding the award of additional preference points under the allocations scheme.
- To assist households with a Part VI self assessment application and to help those customers or who need support to bid for permanent Council or Housing Association properties, referring them where appropriate to the Transitional Registration Team or the Permanent Allocations Team.
- To prepare information materials and consultation or response documents to support case work and policy work, including the preparation for presentation of court documents, tribunal submissions and other detailed legal case work and to represent customers as appropriate.
- To ensure that the information supplied by customers is immediately entered onto service databases in order to ensure that customer records are accurate, up to date, and available to staff within the Housing Needs Group and other partner services for the purposes of performance monitoring and joint service delivery.
What you need:
- QSW Status - including qualification, Social Work England registration and completed ASYE
- A minimum of 2 years' experience
- Right to work in the UK
Benefits of working with Remedy
- A personal one-one service from your highly experienced dedicated consultant.
- Top tier supplier across London giving us first access to jobs
- Referral bonus - up to £250* per person placed.
- Double payrolls each week.
- Terms & Conditions apply
You will be required to fully register with Remedy for all locum positions.
Remedy Social Care is a APSCo Standard agency and is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the vulnerable. Successful applicants will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure via the DBS. Our objective is to be an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from everyone with suitable skills and ability regardless of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief. All applications will be accepted and reviewed solely on merit.