Housing Options and Assessment Officer (9 jobs available)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Directorate: Place

Grade: Scale 6 - PO1 (career graded role)

Salary: £32,925 - £40,833 PA (depending on experience)

Market Supplement / Retention Bonus: yes

Contract Type: Full-time/Permanent

Working hours per week: 36

Application Deadline: 25/11/2024

Proposed Interview Date(s): TBC

Reference:1495

About Us:

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents.

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London's Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment. A great example of this commitment recently saw the release of a number of homes that were made available to people who live or work in the borough at discounted market rents.

The Council's preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method.

About the role:

9 x Posts available

This is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to some of the most vulnerable residents in the borough. Are you pro-active, resourceful, customer-resolution focused? Then this role might be for you.

As a Housing Options & Assessment Officer, you'll be working in a busy and often challenging environment, where you will be supporting our vulnerable residents, some of whom may have complex needs. If you join our team, you'll be focused on preventing residents from becoming homeless, as well as providing tailored support and interventions when prevention is not an option.

The successful candidate will be enthusiastic, resilient, and self-motivated and be able to provide a high standard of housing advice and guidance to residents and landlords. Great organisational, communication and negotiating skills are a must.

Previous experience of working within housing, homelessness, voluntary and advisory sectors is desirable but not essential.

For more information please visit our website page - Explore a career in Housing | London Borough of Waltham Forest

> Click here to download the Role Profile <<

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver a high quality and collaborative assessment of the housing requirements and options for people in housing need.
• Understand the abilities and the complex, multiple needs of individual residents/households.
• Motivate and empower residents to find and sustain new housing through the creation of Personal Housing Plans.
• Assessing residents against the prevention, relief and main duties in the Homelessness Reduction Act.

Qualifications and Requirements:

• 3 A levels or equivalent through experience
• Demonstrable ability in written English and basic mathematics

Terms and conditions:

The below terms and conditions apply to this role:

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks;
• Satisfactory declaration of interest;
• This role is subject to safer recruitment practices as it involves work with children and/ or vulnerable adults;
• Satisfactory DBS check;
• Continued professional body registration;
• Suitable driver's license; is desirable not essential

This post is politically restricted therefore the post holder is disqualified from undertaking certain political activities under the Local Government Officers (Political Restrictions) Regulations 1990.

As a public authority, we must ensure that members of staff in public-facing roles are able to speak fluent English. This means that they must have a command of spoken English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for the effective performance of their role. This requirement does not refer to any particular English language qualifications, regional or international accents, dialects, speech impediments or the tone of conversations. It does not require staff to speak only in English.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the 'Apply' button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview.

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us.

Contact Information:

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Sharron Stewart, sharron.stewart@walthamforest.gov.uk or Gbemi Tinubu-Pratt gbemi.tinubu-pratt@walthamforest.gov.uk

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk.

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