Job Description

Housing Officer

Tower Hamlets

Contract

£25 Umbrella Per Hour

The role:

The Housing officer will conduct housing options interviews with customers focussing on assessing housing needs, preventing homelessness and giving good quality advice on the housing choices available so that customers can make informed decisions and negotiate and mediate with landlords, parents and other accommodation providers to prevent homelessness and provide practical assistance to help customers remain in their accommodation, including home visits

The Candidate:

Knowledge of the duties owed to the homeless under Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 as amended including Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and the Homelessness Act 2002

Knowledge of Landlord and Tenant Legislation, the Housing Act 1985 and 1988, the Protection from Eviction Act 1977, and knowledge of Family law and welfare benefits.

Knowledge of the strategies for preventing homelessness and the main housing options initiatives, provided by both statutory and voluntary organisations

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