Housing Options Officer

Job Description

Housing Options Officer – Cambridge City

Contract – ongoing

£20.98 ph PAYE or £26.15 ph Umbrella

Full time

Duties and responsibilties

• To provide specialist and comprehensive housing advice and options to members of the public and delivering the Council’s statutory homelessness functions, focussed on preventing and relieving homelessness while managing expectations.
• The post holder will assess customers’ needs and housing options, agreeing these in the form of a ‘personal housing plan’. For customers who are threatened with homelessness this will mean working to prevent homelessness or identify alternative housing options.
• The post holder will be responding to immediate homelessness situations and arranging placement in emergency accommodation. Where a homeless application is triggered, the post holder will make key decisions about whether the Council’s statutory duties have been discharged and issue formal decision notifications.
• Work with colleagues and other professionals to offer enhanced housing options which address the problems that are the root cause of the homelessness with a view to securing and sustaining accommodation.

To find out more information please contact Abbie at abbiek@4recruitmentservices.com

Recruitment is done in line with safe recruitment practices. We are an equal opportunity agency.