Homeless Reduction Officer

Is your current contract coming to an end? Or are you looking for a Homeless Reduction Officer position to start ASAP? If you have an enhanced DBS dated in the last 12 months and feel the below role would be perfect for you, please apply!

Location: Sunderland
Position: Homeless Reduction Officer
Contract type: Temporary
Start date: ASAP
End date: 8 weeks (minimum)
Rate:£12.69 PAYE or £15.83 UMB (p/h)
Randstad CPE contact: The Trades team on (phone number removed)

The Company

A Local Authority client

Purpose:

To carry out homeless assessments and assess housing needs of customers.
To maintain and develop a good knowledge of the homeless legislation, the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, case law and statutory guidance.
To identify accommodation and support services to meet identified needs of customers and create personalised housing plans (PHP's), liaising with the Housing Options Coordinator.
To manage a case load providing relevant support to ensure PHP's are effectively delivered.
To provide relevant support to multi agency meetings including child protection conferences and safeguarding meetings.

Key Responsibilities:

To carry out statutory homeless assessments.
To look at prevention options and prevent/relieve homelessness where possible.
To deliver general needs housing advice.
To provide information, advice and guidance to internal and external customers on housing/homelessness issues
To create personalised housing plans (PHP's).
To engage and liaise with internal and external bodies around accommodation solutions and support.
To work with customers and accommodation /support providers to ensure PHP's deliver successful outcomes.
To carry out tasks and activities required to collate information and data for a range of functions including FOI, MARAC, MAPPA, MATAC, Strengthening Families and child protection/safeguarding meetings.
To manage caseloads within locally designed policies and systems, including work flows within the team for nominations, recalls and reviews, including detailed case recording.
Provide relevant and accurate information to customers, colleagues and partner organisations, delivering services to the required standard, whilst ensuring complex issues are escalated to the appropriate manager.
To manage, maintain and monitor their own workload in order to meet identified targets and deadlines, in accordance with current standards and procedures.
Ability to work independently and / or as part of a team to provide solutions to ensure work is carried out in a timely, professional and accurate manner and ensure work is delivered within timescales and tasks are appropriately prioritised.
Excellent literacy, numeracy and customer service skills and a general understanding of Council policies and procedures.
Use of MS office applications such as Word for reports and minutes and Excel for creating and maintaining spread sheets.

You will Need

Enhanced DBS
Experience in a similar role

What you will get in return:

A competitive pay rate (PAYE or Umbrella)
Opportunity for ongoing work.
Access to Randstad's training department.

What to do next:

If you feel this role meets your expectations please click apply and upload your latest cv. If you are seeking a new role in the future please feel free to contact Randstad CPE's Newcastle branch for a confidential discussion where we can provide advice, assistance with training and update you on our latest vacancies.

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

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