Housing Needs Officer Contract

Housing Needs Officer
Slough
Contract

We are currently recruiting for a Housing needs Officer to work in Slough. The postholder will deliver a high quality and customer focussed housing needs service, including housing advice and homelessness services and use every available resource to tackle housing need and prevent homelessness in accordance to relevant legislation, policies and procedures. To contribute to the development, cohesion and integration of the wider housing service

Accountabilities:

• Deliver a comprehensive, customer focussed and high quality housing needs service, liaising with other sections, departments and agencies internally and externally in relation to housing or homelessness issues on behalf of home seekers
• Working proactively using initiative and knowledge to apply appropriate options to tackle housing need ensuring that the council’s resources, including financial resources, are appropriately used according to the needs of the home seeker, enabling them to achieve sustainable and affordable solutions to their housing needs.
• Provide good quality advice to all, including, public, tenants, licensees, landlords etc, regarding their legal rights and available options related to their housing using a holistic approach. This will include analysing complex information and relaying this information appropriately to the customer, including legal advice on housing, immigration and benefits legislation.

For more information please call Sam on 01616670021 or email