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Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.</div>\n<div>\n This is a key leadership role responsible for managing the Single Homelessness Service, ensuring single people and childless couples at risk of homelessness receive expert advice, support, and access to sustainable housing solutions. You will lead the operational delivery of homelessness prevention, assessment, and relief services, ensuring compliance with statutory duties and legal frameworks. The role involves driving service improvements, managing budgets, overseeing casework quality, and shaping policies that enhance homelessness prevention and housing support. You will also work closely with internal and external partners, including the voluntary sector, to develop and implement effective strategies that reduce homelessness and improve long-term outcomes for vulnerable residents.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>The Person</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>We are seeking a dynamic and strategic leader with extensive knowledge of homelessness legislation, prevention strategies, and appropriate pathways for single people. The ideal candidate will have a strong track record of managing high-performing teams in homelessness services, implementing policy changes, and improving service delivery. They should be confident in handling complex legal cases, engaging with stakeholders at all levels, and driving innovation in homelessness prevention. Strong leadership, problem-solving, and decision-making skills are essential, along with the ability to influence and collaborate to achieve positive housing outcomes.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Key dates:</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Closing date: Wednesday 5 March 2025 (23:59)</div>\n<div>You will be notified if you are shortlisted for interview by: Friday 7 March 2025</div>\n<div>Test & Interview date: Monday 10 March 2025</div>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£64,317 - £67,812 p.a. inc. 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With an ability to understand and interpret complex data, you will help to identify improved methods of performance and to establish and implement the best practice processes.You will be IRRV qualified or have extensive equivalent experience.It is essential you have knowledge of benefits legislation and current experience processing benefits and council tax support.Effective communication skills and an understanding of good working practices to improve performance are also required.The role also involves close working with other Hertfordshire local authorities, Council services such as our Housing team, partners such as the Department for Work and Pensions and our Shared Anti-Fraud Service.The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential in this post.Closing date for applications is 9 March 2025.Remote assessments will be held 14 March 2025.Interviews will be held on 20/21 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"Starting salary £37,160 pro rata with potential progression to £39,974 pro rata inclusive","publishDate":"2025-02-20T16:20:13.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-09T23:59:59.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/bcf7e319-c651-44c3-b4fc-63a532dd3a28.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"c7960c90-3031-412d-aeba-a153c047486b","title":"Team Manager (Adult Social Care Commissioning)","employer":"Brent Council","department":"","location":"Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex","locationType":2,"description":"<div>Supported Living and Extra Care Team Manager - Adult Social Care Commissioning</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here.</div>\n<div>\n The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>The Post</div>\n<div>\n The Supported Living and Extra Care Team Manager is responsible for the management and leadership of a team of commissioners that oversees and commissions care services in Brent. Working in collaboration with the Head of Service for Commissioning, Contracting and Market Management and other Commissioning Team Managers, the successful candidate will take the operational and strategic lead on all commissioning, contracting and market management activity for supported living and extra care services in Brent.</div>\nThe post holder will contribute to the overall management of the Commissioning, Contracting and Market Management Service and the wider Strategic Commissioning and Capacity Building Department. Working in collaboration with key stakeholders including the Brent Adult Social Care Service will be essential.\nThe primary responsibility for the post is to lead the management of the local market for supported living and extra care services and ensure the services that are commissioned are safe, cost effective and of good quality. \n<div>The Person</div>\nBrent Council is looking for an experienced commissioning manager to lead our Supported Living and Extra Care Team. The council has a well-developed commissioning programme and is recruiting a new team manager to lead on work to ensure that our supported living and extra care services continue to deliver high quality care and support for the people of Brent.\nLeading a team of 12, Brent is looking for someone with extensive commissioning experience, with a strong track record in strategic planning and end to end delivery of commissioning projects. The successful candidate will understand the social care sector, be able to work effectively with key stakeholders and manage a considerable programme of work, including responsibility for Brent's Supported Living Programme which currently supports over 400 people.\nExperience in commissioning of social care services is essential, as is a proven track record in leading commissioning services to deliver high quality outcomes. The successful candidate will ensure the seamless delivery of the end-to-end commissioning cycle for supported living and extra care services, including overall responsibility and accountability for all phases of the analyse-plan-do-review commissioning cycle. \n<div>Closing date: 9 March 2025 (23:59)</div>\n<div>\n If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the \"Apply Now\" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.\n</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Please note; applications received from applicants who have applied within the last 6 months will not be considered.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.</div>\n<div>We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.</div>\n<div>\n The information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found <a href=\"https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn\">here</a>.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>Brent has a positive approach to flexible working.</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>As a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including “non-visible” disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. 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Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here. \nThe council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our communities so it is an exciting time to join us.\nWe're changing how we organise and provide services in Brent to help everyone here live their best lives. Our new strategic change programme is about offering public services differently, with staff who are positive, empowered, accountable, and confident to try new things.\nWhere we always do things with our residents in our minds, developing a deep understanding of local communities, working together across different organisations for the people we serve.\nThe Post\nThis role will lead the development and delivery of the Council’s leisure services, parks and green open space within this transformation agenda. The role will lead a new strategic cross-Council approach to leisure to maximise the benefit of Council assets and realise the power of active leisure to improve health and to promote community development and economic growth. Working with communities and partners, including Sports England, National Sports Governing Bodies, Leisure Operators and the NHS, the postholder will identify and act on opportunities to address the long-standing levels of inactivity and health inequalities in the borough.\nThe role will lead on large scale capital projects, including the building of a brand-new Leisure Centre designed in response to the aspirations of the local community as part of a significant regeneration programme. As the Authority’s Representative the postholder will lead the commercial management of the Council’s Leisure PFI and the plan for its expiry in seven years. \nThe Person\nYou will bring a deep knowledge and understanding of the sports and leisure industry, relevant legislation, regulation and guidance with experience of the procurement and management of large scale, high value contracts and supplier relationships\nYou will combine a commitment to working with our diverse communities and partners to increase physical activity levels and promote inclusive participation with an understanding of how to achieve this. \nWe are seeking someone who can build and sustain highly effective relationships and networks to deliver change across organisational and professional boundaries.\nYou will demonstrate an ambition and curiosity for innovation and change – a focus on pushing us to be better and exploring new ways of doing things that create better impact.\nClosing date: 4 March 2025 (23:59)\nAdditional Information \nIf you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the \"Apply Now\" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.\nBrent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.\nWe are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances.\nThe information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found <a href=\"https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn\">here</a>.\nBrent has a positive approach to flexible working. \nAs a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including “non-visible” disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. 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We’re looking for a strategic, commercially minded procurement professional to join us as an Assistant Category Manager. This is your opportunity to develop as a trusted advisor, working on high-value and complex procurement projects that shape public services, drive efficiencies, and deliver real value for money.\n<div>Brent is a tremendously vibrant London borough where the iconic arch of Wembley Stadium dominates the skyline. Spanning both inner and outer London, it is a borough of huge contrasts in terms of its economic, environmental, ethnic and social make up. Brent’s diversity is evident to all who visit our borough and our long history of ethnic and cultural diversity has created a place that is truly unique and valued by those who live and work here. </div>\n<div>The council is pursuing a far-reaching transformation agenda that better meets the needs of our community so it is an exciting time to join us.</div>\n<div>\n The Post</div>\nAs Assistant Category Manager, you’ll provide expert procurement advice and strategic support across a range of projects. Working alongside the Category Manager, you’ll be involved in:\n<ul>\n<li>End-to-end procurement management – overseeing low, medium, and high-value projects, ensuring compliance and efficiency.</li>\n<li>Providing expert procurement guidance – advising stakeholders on best practices, market analysis, commercial strategies, and legislative requirements.</li>\n<li>Driving category management principles – taking ownership of a procurement category (or range of categories) and embedding strategic sourcing techniques.</li>\n<li>Leading procurement teams – managing multi-disciplinary teams to deliver procurement solutions that meet business needs.</li>\n<li>Championing social value and transparency – ensuring procurement activities align with Public Procurement rules, the Social Value Act, and the Council’s Procurement Strategy.</li>\n<li>Deputising for the Category Manager – stepping up when required and gaining hands-on experience in senior-level procurement leadership.</li>\n<li>Developing leadership and coaching skills – mentoring junior procurement professionals and supporting the growth of the wider team.</li>\n</ul>\n<div>The Person</div>\nWe’re looking for an ambitious and commercially astute procurement professional who is eager to take on greater responsibility. To succeed in this role, you should have:\n<ul>\n<li>Strong knowledge of procurement processes, ideally in the public sector</li>\n<li>A solid understanding of procurement legislation, governance, and compliance requirements</li>\n<li>Expertise in at least one procurement category (as listed in the job description)</li>\n<li>A track record of managing multiple procurement projects, meeting deadlines, and keeping stakeholders engaged</li>\n<li>Commercial acumen – the ability to apply strategic sourcing techniques to drive financial savings and service improvements</li>\n<li>Great people skills – adept at leading teams, influencing stakeholders, and providing clear, objective procurement advice</li>\n<li>A problem-solving mindset – able to think strategically and navigate complex procurement challenges</li>\n</ul>\nThis is a fantastic opportunity to take your procurement expertise to the next level, hone your leadership skills, and make a real difference in shaping the future of public services.\nIf you're ready to step up and grow in a dynamic procurement environment, we’d love to hear from you! \n<div>Closing date: 27 February 2025 (23:59)</div>\n<div>\n </div>\n<div>Additional Information </div>\n<div>\n If you are interested in applying for this job, please start by clicking the \"Apply Now\" button below. You must provide a supporting statement as part of your application that clearly shows how you meet the criteria on the Person Specification. We will accept a CV in support of your application, however, you should still provide a supporting statement.\n</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>\n<div>Brent Council values the diversity of its community and aims to have a workforce that reflects this and therefore encourage applications from all sections of the community. We positively encourage all applicants to self-identify their characteristics in the diversity survey section in the application.</div>\n</div>\n<div> </div>\n<div>We are committed to safer recruitment and safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that posts working with children, young people and vulnerable adults are subject to an Enhanced DBS check as well as other employment clearances. </div>\n<div>The information we collect from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas and your data protection rights, can be found <a href=\"https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn\">here</a>. </div>\n<div>Brent has a positive approach to flexible working. </div>\n<div>As a disability confident employer Brent welcomes applications from people with all disabilities, including “non-visible” disabilities and mental health conditions. We will interview any disabled applicant who meets the essential criteria. If you require reasonable adjustments to be made to any part of the recruitment process due to your disability, please contact us on <a href=\"mailto:recruitment@brent.gov.uk\">recruitment@brent.gov.uk</a><a> </a>\n</div>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"Salary range: £53,607 - £56,646 p.a. inc. 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Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.\n<h2>Other information</h2>\nSupport for candidates visit: <a href=\"https://www.harrow.gov.uk/jobs/support-candidates?documentId=12517&categoryId=210277\" target=\"_blank\">Harrow.gov.uk</a>\nOur behavioural indicators roles <a href=\"https://www.harrow.gov.uk/downloads/file/23864/behavioural-indicators-below-g11\" target=\"_blank\">below G11</a> and <a href=\"https://www.harrow.gov.uk/downloads/file/23865/behavioural-indicators-above-g11\" target=\"_blank\">above G11</a>\nHere at Harrow Council, the vision is one of 'Working together to make a difference for Harrow' <a href=\"https://www.harrow.gov.uk/jobs/jobs-harrow-council\" target=\"_blank\">Please click here to view Harrow Council's benefits</a>\n<h2>Important Note</h2>\nTo deliver our commitment to equality of opportunity in service provision, all staff are expected to promote equality in the workplace and in the services the Council delivers. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs at the London Borough of Harrow. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender, reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, or maternity unless a Genuine Occupational Qualification applies. As such, we value diversity and welcome applications from all backgrounds.\nFor further information, please read our <a href=\"https://www.harrow.gov.uk/council/Equality-diversity#:~:text=We%20have%20many%20people%20of,cohesion%2C%20fairness%2C%20and%20justice\">equality statement</a>. As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes reasonably adjusting the recruitment process for those with disabilities or long-term health conditions. For further information, please contact us at <a href=\"mailto:resourcing@harrow.gov.uk\">resourcing@harrow.gov.uk</a>\nLondon Borough of Harrow is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Harrow operates stringent, safer recruitment procedures. Due to the high number of applications received for some posts, we may close vacancies before the stated closing date if sufficient applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible. Harrow redeployees will be given priority consideration. The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting <a href=\"https://jobs.harrow.gov.uk/www.cifas.org.uk/fpn\">www.cifas.org.uk/fpn</a>\n</div>\n</div>","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£45,117 to £53,108 with opportunity to progress to Senior Lawyer £60,411","publishDate":"2025-02-18T17:15:46.137Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-24T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/c45a8806-29f8-4f34-ac18-3944a81f51e8.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"f041bf73-97ae-43ae-951c-76d0b0fb2148","title":"Corporate Safeguarding Officer","employer":"Hertsmere Borough Council","department":"","location":"Civic Offices, Borehamwood","locationType":2,"description":"We are seeking a Corporate Safeguarding Officer to join our Partnerships & Community Engagement Team. This is very friendly and supportive team that delivers a wide range of services to our residents. This role offers an opportunity to work with departments across the council to ensure we protect children, young people and adults from abuse, neglect and harm. \nThe post holder will review and enhance the Council’s current safeguarding arrangements and act as the main source of support, advice and expertise for safeguarding across the organisation by providing operational, strategic and corporate direction, including complex professional advice on matters relating to safeguarding.\nThe ideal candidate will have relevant training in the fields of social / public policy and community safety and considerable experience in the field of Safeguarding and policy development in a local government or similar statutory body setting. Experience of strategy development and implementing policies and procedures across an organisation will also be necessary. You will also require a thorough understanding of relevant legislation relating to safeguarding adults, young people and children, and be an excellent communicator.\nThe post is offered on an 18 month fixed term contract (36 hours per week).\nBenefits include:\n<ul>\n<li>27 – 32 days annual leave (depending on length of Local Gvt Service) - plus all bank holidays</li>\n<li>Local government pension scheme</li>\n<li>Flexi-Leave (opportunity to accrue extra work time that can be taken off later as extra leave -up to 2 days per month)</li>\n<li>Free gym membership</li>\n<li>Cycle schemes (Cycle to Work Scheme and free Beryl Bike rides for staff)</li>\n<li>Free wellbeing benefits (such as lunchtime yoga, flu jabs, health MOT)</li>\n<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li>\n</ul>\nThe Council operates a hybrid working system where employees may work up to three days per week from home.\nHertsmere is located in southern Hertfordshire and is an attractive environment in which to live and work. It adjoins Greater London and has excellent road and rail links making London and the Home Counties easily accessible.\nClosing date: Monday 24th March, 10am\n Interviews: 10th & 16th April 2025","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£36,845 - £41,577 (depending on experience)","publishDate":"2025-02-18T16:07:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-24T10:00:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/24eae9c9-8794-451e-84d6-1067411cb984.png","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"763f6a3d-94fa-4d5a-9bbd-e7e3f88df137","title":"Senior Housing Solutions and Independence Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form. \nAbout The Role\nWe are looking for a motivated, creative and committed individual to join the team our Housing Advice Team. You should have a keen interest in helping families and individuals at risk of homelessness to find solutions and with a focus on remaining in their current home. You must have experience of having worked within a statutory homelessness prevention service. \nThe successful candidate will have detailed knowledge and experience of working with the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) and a proven track record of preventing homelessness, providing detailed housing advice to residents with housing issues and be able to empathise with the with clients facing the homelessness and understand the Council’s legal duties to those clients. \nIn addition to the above, you must be able to demonstrate your experience of managing complex cases, providing support to more junior staff, working within a busy environment and work to tight deadlines.\nYour ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a wide variety of people and to be able to communicate clear concise advice both in written and verbally is crucial.\nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is aims to developing and progressing our agenda to reduce assess, identify housing needs and look for solutions to prevent homelessness.\n•      You will prevent homelessness by providing housing advice and assistance to people facing homelessness and carrying out homelessness prevention work.\n•      You will provide customers with housing prevention advice supporting them to sustain their current accommodation or support them to secure alternative accommodation through the provision of personal housing plans.\n•      You will be able to issue good quality notification letters such as 184 decisions in line with the council’s duty Housing Act 1997 and the HRA 2017 and in a timely manner.\n•      You will work jointly with other services and partners to prevent homelessness and lead, attend and manage multi professional meetings when appropriate.\n•      You will enable the delivery of a more efficient and effective homeless prevention and assessment service and assist in the development of policies and procedures.\nAbout You\n•      You will have knowledge of the legislative frameworks and statutory requirements relating to the Housing Solutions Service and knowledge of relevant legislation especially the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 and the Homelessness code of Guidance.\n•      You will have a good understanding of the Safeguarding in relation our vulnerable residents and the how to with external and internal partners to support them.\n•      You will demonstrate an understanding of current issues affecting social housing and private housing provision, and of range of housing options and homelessness prevention approaches.\n•      You will have experience of managing a varied caseload effectively ensuring that your cases are up to date.\n•      You will have written and verbal communication skills, with ability to provide negotiation and the ability to work collaboratively with other services and partners.\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n•      Are you passionate about customer services?\n•      Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n•      Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department?\nQualifications:\n•      You have relevant work-based experience and engage in continuous professional development.\n•      You can travel independently around the Borough to carry out home visits and meet other professionals in community settings.\nEssential for The Role:\n•      Basic DBS check is required.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£39,855 - £44,331 per annum(Career graded)","publishDate":"2025-02-17T09:17:48.550Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"c2cfcd83-61ae-4fbb-9e60-4df8c3b3dd44","title":"Housing Solutions and Independence Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"<div>\nAbout us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. \nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.\nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nWe are looking for a motivated, creative and committed individual to join the team our Housing Advice Team. You should have a keen interest in helping families and individuals at risk of homelessness to find solutions and with a focus on remaining in their current home. You must have experience of having worked within a statutory homelessness prevention service. \nThe successful candidate will have detailed knowledge and experience of working with the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act (HRA) and a proven track record of preventing homelessness, providing detailed housing advice to residents with housing issues and be able to empathise with the with clients facing the homelessness and understand the Council’s legal duties to those clients.\nIn addition to the above, you must be able to demonstrate your experience of managing complex cases, providing support to more junior staff, working within a busy environment and work to tight deadlines. \nYour ability to communicate clearly and effectively to a wide variety of people and to be able to communicate clear concise advice both in written and verbally is crucial.\nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is aims to developing and progressing our agenda to reduce assess, identify housing needs and look for solutions to prevent homelessness.\n·       You will prevent homelessness by providing housing advice and assistance to people facing homelessness and carrying out homelessness prevention work.\n·       You will provide customers with housing prevention advice supporting them to sustain their current accommodation or support them to secure alternative accommodation through the provision of personal housing plans.\n·       You will be able to issue good quality notification letters such as 184 decisions in line with the council’s duty Housing Act 1997 and the HRA 2017 and in a timely manner.\n·       You will work jointly with other services and partners to prevent homelessness and lead, attend and manage multi professional meetings when appropriate.\n·       You will enable the delivery of a more efficient and effective homeless prevention and assessment service and assist in the development of policies and procedures.\nAbout You\n·       You will have knowledge of the legislative frameworks and statutory requirements relating to the Housing Solutions Service and knowledge of relevant legislation especially the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, Part VII of the Housing Act 1996 and the Homelessness code of Guidance.\n·       You will have a good understanding of the Safeguarding in relation our vulnerable residents and the how to with external and internal partners to support them.\n·       You will demonstrate an understanding of current issues affecting social housing and private housing provision, and of range of housing options and homelessness prevention approaches.\n·       You will have experience of managing a varied caseload effectively ensuring that your cases are up to date.\n·       You will have written and verbal communication skills, with ability to provide negotiation and the ability to work collaboratively with other services and partners. \nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       Are you passionate about customer services?\n·       Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n·       Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department?\nEssential for the Role\nBasic DBS check is required for the role.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a> \nClosing date: 10 March 2025.\n</div>\n ","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£38,934 - £42,324 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"79a80042-3f06-4348-b5bb-a94f44646195","title":"Housing Regulation & Improvement Manager","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. \nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Performance/Improvement Team as a Housing Regulation & Improvement Manager. In this role you will lead the development, delivery and implementation of a quality assurance and improvement programme across the Council’s Housing Directorate, to ensure that we deliver core functions in accordance with regulation and realise our continuous improvement goals.\nYour professional accountability is to provide assurance that the Council is compliant with all statutory and regulatory housing requirements, developing action plans and remediations where we are deficient, taking enabling and direct actions to ensure that we deliver a high quality, safe, modern and preventative housing service, which has a positive impact on the lives of our tenants and residents. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       You will line-manage directly one Housing Improvement Analyst and one Housing Delivery Officer.\n·       Be fully accountable for the management, planning and coordination of housing regulatory compliance and service improvement activities, delegating operational tasks to the housing improvement officer, as necessary. Represent the service corporately and with partners, deputising for your manager and head of service as required.\n·       Lead, motivate and develop your team to provide expert diagnostic, interpretation, advice, support and challenge to the wider housing service to drive up standards across the directorate, ensure statutory and legislative compliance and improve the customer experience for residents.\n·       Monitor team resources including delegated budgets, ICT and mobile working equipment, and customer information. Ensure that all data held by the team is fair, accurate and secure so that resources are put to appropriate use to deliver an efficient service. \nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       You are an expert in housing with significant knowledge and experience of preparing and implementing housing policies, procedures, formal reports and presentations in a local authority setting.\n·       You have excellent investigative and problem-solving skills, are able to spot flaws in an argument but take a collaborative approach to finding solutions and are able to operate effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources, with experience of managing or supervising staff.\n·       You will have guided and contributed to service and process design, continuous improvement, and performance management, including carrying out service reviews, developing improvement plans, and implementing and monitoring these using project and programme methodologies.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£52,584 - £55,620 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"873ea3db-606c-4efe-9a33-b5cb0ba34cdc","title":"Housing Income Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. \nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Income Team as an Income Officer. In this role, you are compassionate in your approach, but outcome focussed and highly motivated to ensure income collection targets are achieved. You build up trusting relationships with tenants, identifying those who need additional support to help them pay their rent, service charges and any arrears. \nYou monitor rent accounts and income recovery, taking action where early intervention may prevent arrears escalating. You have a good understanding of welfare benefits to help tenants maximise their income and sustain their tenancies.\nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       You will work collaboratively with your colleagues and partner agencies to ensure that the council maximises income recovery alongside tenants getting the very best service and opportunities to live independently and safely in their homes.\n·       You will co-ordinate work with others across the service to ensure cross cuttings issues are not considered in isolation, and solutions are joined up borough wide.\n·       You will work in a person-centred way, identifying unmet needs and working proactively with other agencies to ensure those needs are met, including making timely referrals to internal departments and external agencies and proactively follow up to ensure referrals are acted on.\nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       You have experience of self-managing and analysing high volumes of information and an understanding of income recovery techniques, welfare benefits, the council’s role as a landlord and associated legislation and regulations relating to tenancy matters.\n·       You are a great communicator and excellent negotiator to engage effectively with a broad range of people to influence and persuade.\n·       You act with integrity, take personal responsibility and handle stress effectively while maintaining high levels of motivation and enthusiasm to achieve high levels of income recovery for the council alongside successful outcomes for our tenants.\n·       Basic DBS check is required for the role. \nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£39,855 - £42,324","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"2002a5bc-a5b4-472d-8f2d-634ee6da5c97","title":"Senior Caseworker and Reviews Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. \nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form. \nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join our Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Service which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. Your primary focus will be on the statutory independent reviews function following homelessness decisions and housing allocations, ensuring that decisions are consistent with the Council’s legal responsibilities. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is developing and progressing our agenda to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and achieve more upstream prevention outcomes.\n1.     You will implement the statutory reviews provisions of homelessness and allocations legislation, taking account of relevant Codes of Guidance, case law and policy. The post holder will require comprehensive and expert knowledge of housing functions and related law and statutory guidance, sufficient to handle legal challenges.\n2.     You will carry out thorough enquiries and investigations of complaints, reviews and legal challenges under Parts 6 and 7 of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended), ensuring that decisions made are fully compliant with relevant legislation, up to date case law and policy, and are issued within targets and statutory timeframes.\n3.     You will lead on section 204 (Housing Act) appeals against the council’s (section 202) review decisions, working with solicitors and providing instructions as necessary.\n4.     To support the service on a full range of statutory housing compliance responsibilities relating to strategy, tenure blind tenancy placements and policy and procedures across housing. \nAbout You\nYou have extensive knowledge and experience of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended) and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, working with vulnerable people, and experience of leading multi-disciplinary housing teams and work involving complex needs and diverse client groups and an expert knowledge of homelessness and associated legislation.\n·       You have extensive experience in dealing with statutory decisions, and expert knowledge of housing case law, homelessness legislation, private sector tenancy law and good practice, including:\na)     The Housing Act 1996, including amendments made by the Homelessness Act 2002, the Localism Act 2012 and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017;\nb)     Landlord and Tenant Law, for example, the Housing Act 1985 and the Prevention from Eviction Act 1977;\nc)     The Welfare Reform Act 2012 and DWP guidance on personal benefits and housing related benefits;\nd)     Statutory requirements in relation to allocations on social housing and Local Authority Allocations Policies.\n·       You have an expert working knowledge and understanding of current housing law, such as the Housing Act 1996, Parts VI and VII, Homelessness Act 2002, Localism Act 2012, Homelessness Reduction Act 2017 and immigration law as it applies to housing eligibility, relevant code of guidance and case law.\n·       You have a working knowledge of legislation associated with homelessness investigations and housing allocations, including, Family Law Act 1996, Children Acts 1989 and 2004, Human Rights Act 1998, Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, Community Care Act 2000 and the Care Act 2014.\n·       You are an expert communicator who engages effectively with a broad range of people, including applicants, colleagues, and elected members, to motivate, influence, negotiate and persuade and achieve multi-disciplinary outcomes to meet wide ranging needs.\n·       It is desirable that you have a degree or equivalent qualifications (preferably a law degree).\nIf the points above resonate with you, we would like to hear from you.\n·       Are you passionate about customer services?\n·       Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n·       Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department? \nQualifications:\n·       You have a degree or equivalent qualification (law degree desirable).\n·       You have demonstrable work experience and can evidence continual professional development.\nEssential for The Role:\nA basic DBS check is required.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please see  <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£44,331- £47,532 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"c9da6ee2-5bfe-470b-9ac9-b50ee09810fc","title":"Acquisitions Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.\nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Services, Property Procurement Accommodation Service, which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. Your primary focus will be to work with private landlords and agents to acquire new properties that are suitable to prevent or resolve homelessness.\nYou must be professional, energetic and enthusiastic as we are interested in what you can bring to help us improve and develop our services to support landlords and agents letting out their properties to some of our most vulnerable residents. You must be able to learn and develop your knowledge required for this role and be able to travel independently around the Borough. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is developing and progressing our agenda to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and achieve more upstream prevention outcomes.\n1.     This role is to increase the supply of private rented and temporary accommodation for residents who are homeless or threatened with homelessness, under various different property procurement schemes being operated in the Hounslow borough.\n2.     You will carry out property inspections to ensure that landlords and property agents meet the required decant homes standards and sign-up tenancies across different tenures.\n3.     You will be provide a vetting and letting process to private landlords, arranging viewings and support homeless households in accepting accommodation in the private sector in discharge of the council’s housing duties.\n4.     You will ensure that accommodation complies with relevant standards and legislation and that supporting documentation is obtained and recorded.\n5.     You will ensure private rented tenancies are affordable for prospective tenants and suitable for their needs.\nAbout You\n1.     You have experience of successfully increasing the supply of accommodation for residents who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.\n2.     You are a great communicator to engage effectively with a broad range of people to influence, motivate, negotiate and persuade and you quickly build trusting relationships with complex individuals, and other professionals, to empower residents to build resilience and gain and maintain their independence.\n3.     You are able to devise solutions to complex and contentious problems.\n4.     You are a high performing individual who works collaboratively with others, adapting to meet a range of changing needs while achieving targets and service objectives and make the team the very best it can be.\n5.     You have exceptional negotiation skills.\n6.     You preferably have a current driving licence but can travel independently around the Borough to carry out home visits and meet residents and other professionals in community settings.\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n•      Are you passionate about customer services?\n•      Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n•      Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department?\nQualifications:\nHHSRS Trained Desirable\nEssential for The Role:\nBasic DBS \nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please see  <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£39,855 - £42,324","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"91eb2f63-9d55-47e7-8e4c-1e667acb4b6c","title":"Assistant Service Manager – Income","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be. \nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Income Team as an Assistant Service Manager. We want to do things differently from the standard and out-dated practices, so you will use data in incredibly rewarding and purposeful ways, thinking creatively to find bespoke solutions to prevent debts escalating, ensuring our approach is proactive.  \nYou will also collaborate with colleagues and partner agencies to achieve high collection rates. Workloads are intense and as such you will have to manage this within and across teams, utilising data to ensure resources are targeted in the right place at the right time, leading to strong performance. You must be passionate about excellent customer service and supporting tenants to sustain their tenancies. Finally, you will recognise that work should be fun, and your personality will reflect this with the steps you take to motivate colleagues. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       You will lead and manage a team of Income Officers.\n·       You will create a positive team culture and provide clear parameters for the team to succeed.\n·       You will set incredibly high standards and support colleagues to ensure these are continuously met, for this you will have adaptable people skills and the ability to coach colleagues.\n·       When it comes to team performance, you’ll combine your analytical skills with your people skills to assist in monitoring, validating, and producing management information reports. \nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       We need someone who will challenge processes, nurture ideas, and drive forward improvements. You will take the initiative, make evidence-based decisions, and finish what you start.\n·       You will be an expert on the impact of external factors on arrears and payments and subsequently implement proactive solutions to mitigate risks.\n·       You have knowledge and experience of successful performance management, a good understanding of income recovery techniques and an understanding of the council’s role as a landlord and associated legislation, regulations and policies relating to tenancy matters.\n·       Basic DBS check is required for the role. \nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£47,532 - £50,574","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"564ec3f6-6114-4b5f-9dc1-6751f6cd25cf","title":"Housing Regulation & Performance Manager","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Performance/Improvement Team as a Housing Regulation & Performance Manager. In this role you will lead the development, delivery and implementation of a performance management and improvement programme based on rigorous analysis and interrogation of the council’s statutory and regulatory housing data, and management information. \nYour professional accountability is to lead on a programme of improvement based on evidence collected through our data, developing action plans and remediations that will deliver outcomes and stetch goals within tight timescales, having appropriate regard to strict budgets, milestones and tolerances for risk. You will put in place assurance frameworks to evidence our outcomes and demonstrate that we deliver a high quality, safe, modern and preventative housing service, which has a positive impact on the lives of our tenants and residents.\nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       You will line-manage directly one Housing Improvement Analyst and indirectly two Housing Performance Assistants.\n·       Be fully accountable for the management, planning and coordination of housing tenant satisfaction measure performance recording and reporting activities, and programme management of improvement activities arising from these, delegating operational tasks to the housing improvement analyst, as necessary. Represent the service corporately and with partners, deputising for your manager and head of service as required.\n·       Lead, motivate and develop your team to provide expert performance and project management design, advice, support and challenge to the wider housing service to drive up standards across the directorate, ensure statutory and legislative compliance and improve the customer experience for residents. Performance frameworks and the approach to project management will need to align to the Council’s corporate standards, but be scaled sensitively to reflect the needs of the task at hand.\n·       Monitor team, project and programme resources including delegated budgets, ICT and mobile working equipment, and customer information; ensure that all data held by the team is fair, accurate and secure so that resources are put to appropriate use to deliver efficient services and projects; reconciling the methods and record keeping for these across different performance, project and programme management schemes, which may be scaled to reflect varied council needs. \nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n•      You are an expert in housing with significant knowledge and experience of preparing and implementing performance and project frameworks, procedures, reports and presentations, data and statistical analyses, and audit evidence in a local authority setting.\n•      You have excellent numerical analytical, project and programme management and problem-solving skills, are able to spot flaws in figures, data or plans but take a collaborative approach to finding solutions and are able to operate effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources seamlessly able to switch between project management paradigms and methodologies scaling them to the requirements of the task, with experience of managing or supervising staff.\n•      You will have guided and contributed to performance monitoring and reporting, continuous improvement, and project and programme management, including carrying out internal reviews, benchmarking exercises, developing improvement plans, and implementing and monitoring changes using project and programme methodologies, ideally within social housing or another highly-regulated public sector, environment. \nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£52,584 - £55,620 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"1126736d-8dc3-401c-8584-8c2ed061dc50","title":"Temporary Accommodation and Hostel Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Services which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. You will be a frontline professional delivering a first class, modern and flexible service to some of the most vulnerable people in the Borough. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is developing and progressing our agenda to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and achieve more upstream prevention outcomes.\n1.     If you want to work in the public sector and be part of a progressive team, this is a unique opportunity for you as we are interested in what you can bring to help us improve and develop our services for our customers.\n2.     This role is to fulfil the council’s statutory homelessness assessment and decision-making function, with particular focus on those in emergency and temporary accommodation. You will proactively prevent and resolve crisis across the housing, health and social care agendas, utilising support services, discretionary funds and assistance and ensuring that accommodation is affordable.\n3.     You will complete detailed holistic assessments of housing and support needs, devise and progress personalised housing plans and you provide interventions, support and referrals to minimise the time spent in temporary accommodation.\nAbout You\nYou have extensive knowledge and experience of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended) and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017, working with vulnerable people, and experience of leading multi-disciplinary housing teams and work involving complex needs and diverse client groups and an expert knowledge of homelessness and associated legislation.\n·       You have experience of multi-disciplinary working involving complex and diverse client groups and an understanding of complex legislative frameworks including homelessness, social care, mental health, immigration and welfare benefits.\n·       You are a great communicator to engage effectively with a broad range of people to influence, negotiate and persuade and you quickly build trusting relationships with complex individuals to develop a comprehensive understanding of issues faced by vulnerable people.\n·       You act with integrity, take personal responsibility and handle stress effectively while maintaining high levels of motivation and enthusiasm to achieve successful corporate preventative outcomes, using proactive and creative solutions.\n·       You work independently, proactively and flexibly, being an expert problem solver demonstrating excellent analytical skills, to seek out and implement bespoke solutions to complex issues and make decisions confidently.\n·       You are a high performing individual who works collaboratively with others, adapting to meet a range of changing needs while achieving targets and service objectives and make the team the very best it can be.\n·       You can travel independently around the Borough to carry out home visits and meet other professionals in community settings. \nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       Are you passionate about customer services?\n·       Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n·       Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department?\nQualifications:\n·       You have relevant work-based experience and engage in continuous professional development.\n·       You can travel independently around the Borough to carry out home visits and meet other professionals in community settings.\nEssential for The Role:\nDisclosure Barring Service – Standard (Unlimited) \nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£38,934 - £42,324","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"47aa5b4f-d346-45a9-add8-15f2c2763f73","title":"Private Rented Sector Access Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.\nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. \nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.\nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to join Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Services, Property Procurement Accommodation Service, which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. Your primary focus will be to assist those in housing need to access Private Rented Sector accommodation to create long-term sustainable tenancies.\nYou must be professional, energetic and enthusiastic as we are interested in what you can bring to help us improve and develop our services to support landlords and some of our most vulnerable residents. You must be able to learn and develop your knowledge required for this role and be able to travel independently around the Borough. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\nThis is an exciting and busy role that is at the centre of the Councils response to homelessness. The service is developing and progressing our agenda to reduce the use of temporary accommodation and achieve more upstream prevention outcomes.\n1.     You will liaise with landlords and Agents to secure properties in the borough for low-income homeless households, assess and matching customers to suitable properties and ensure tenancies are appropriate, affordable and sustainable.\n2.     You will provide support to prevent customers becoming homeless and help customer’s secure settled accommodation in the private sector who are already living in temporary accommodation.\n3.     You will have experience of homeless legislation and working with those faced with homelessness, to provide excellent outcomes for vulnerable clients, and high-quality customer services. Assessing customers support needs in a holistic manner and refer to appropriate agencies.\n4.     You will also undertake assessments as to the suitability of our clients to access private rented accommodation and a range of activities to help them resettle into PRS, which will include practical elements of independent living such as paying rent, setting up and managing utilities, liaising with landlords and other agencies.\n5.     Undertake inspections and advise landlords on property standards and adhering to relevant housing and legislative requirements relating to the PRS and produce appropriate schedule of works where required, acting as a point of contact for private landlords.\n6.     Complete sign-ups with clients including the preparation of appropriate materials including inventories, tenancy agreements and other relevant information.\n7.     Develop and deliver incentives and landlord promotional activities to increase the number of landlords and/or properties on the scheme.\nAbout You\n1.     You have experience of working in a customer orientated environment involving complex and diverse client groups and can understand and apply relevant legislation in your day-to-day work, including landlord and tenant law, homelessness and welfare benefits, while effectively managing customer expectations.\n2.     You are an excellent communicator to engage effectively with a broad range of people to influence, negotiate, persuade, building trusting relationships and devising value for money solutions to complex problems.\n3.     3.You act with integrity, take personal responsibility, work well under pressure and handle stress effectively while maintaining high levels of motivation and enthusiasm to secure new business opportunities using proactive and creative solutions.\n4.     You work independently, proactively and flexibly, while being highly organised to prioritise conflicting demands, making effective use of IT systems to record concise, factual, information and data.\n5.     You are a high performing individual who works collaboratively with others, adapting to meet a range of changing needs while achieving targets and service objectives and make the team the very best it can be. \nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n•      Are you passionate about customer services?\n•      Are you an experienced homelessness professional?\n•      Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department?\nEssential for The Role:\n•      Basic DBS\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£39,855 - £42,324 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"eda4095e-19a0-4ba6-b1eb-7ef4de86dd36","title":"Housing Regulation & Partnerships Manager","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before. \nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. \nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form. \nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Partnerships Team as a Housing Regulation & Partnerships Manager. In this role you will lead the development of relationships with housing partners across our borough, including private registered providers of social housing, co-operatives, charities, and other key stakeholders: to ensure that we jointly deliver our core functions in accordance with regulation; and realise our shared goals Your professional accountability is to provide assurance that the Council is compliant with all statutory and regulatory requirements relating to its partners, developing action plans and remediations where we are deficient, taking enabling and direct actions to ensure that our shared goals are achieved and that we have a positive impact on the lives of our tenants and residents. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n•      You will line-manage directly one Housing Partnerships Assistant Service Manager and through them a team of project, delivery and improvement officers.\n•      Be fully accountable for the management, planning and coordination of strategic relationships with key housing partners, delegating operational tasks to the assistant service manager, as necessary. Represent the service corporately and with partners, deputising for your manager and head of service as required.\n•      Lead, motivate and develop your team to build strategic partnerships with key housing stakeholders, providing analysis, diagnostic, advice and support for strategies and working practices that improve joint outputs and outcomes for residents, and provide quality assurance and evidence of efficiency and value for money for participating organisations.\n•      Monitor team resources including the budget, ICT and mobile working equipment, and customer information. Ensure that all data held by the team is fair, accurate and secure so that resources are put to appropriate use to deliver an efficient service.\nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n•      You are an expert in housing with significant knowledge and experience of preparing and implementing housing policies, procedures, formal reports and presentations in a local authority or registered provider setting.\n•      You have excellent partnership working skills, are able to navigate problem solving within large and complex organisations, taking a collaborative approach to finding solutions, while operating effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources, with experience of managing or supervising staff.\n•      You communicate effectively with a range of internal and external audiences, including tenants, elected members and colleagues of all levels; you will have experience of both resident engagement and engagement in a business-to-business setting.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£52,584 - £55,620 per annum","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"756673c0-2728-4945-9636-da23817f6593","title":"Housing Improvement Analyst","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.\nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer. \nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Performance/Improvement Team as a Housing Improvement Analyst. In this role you will contribute to the monitoring and analysis of management, performance, and risk information against corporate, directorate and regulatory standards, summarising your findings and identifying opportunities for improvements. \nYour professional accountability is to develop and deploy business intelligence frameworks to provide assurance and evidence, through faithful and accurate data, that the Council is compliant with all its statutory and regulatory housing requirements, including mandatory surveys, data collections and returns. This, in turn, will ensure that we deliver a high quality, safe, modern and preventative housing service, which has a positive impact on the lives of our tenants and residents. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       You will line-manage directly one Housing Performance Assistant.\n·       Work with senior colleagues across the Housing department and wider organisation, including chief officers and heads of service, to identify issues with service performance; propose SMART enhancements to mitigate them, devising plans to implement and monitor these using your knowledge of project and programme paradigms and architecture.\n·       Lead, motivate and develop housing performance assistants to provide expert diagnostic, interpretation, advice, support and challenge to the wider housing service to drive up standards across the directorate, ensure statutory and legislative compliance and improve the customer experience for residents. \nAbout You\nIf the points below resonate with you, we’d love you to put in an application:\n·       You are an expert in data with significant knowledge and experience of preparing database reports, analysing qualitative and quantitative housing and business information, using a variety of statistical methods and modelling, to present your findings in an easy-to-understand way for a range of stakeholders.\n·       You have excellent investigative and problem-solving skills, are able to spot flaws in an argument but take a collaborative approach to finding solutions and are able to operate effectively through prioritisation, delegation of tasks and organisation of available resources, with experience of managing or supervising staff.\n·       You have a detailed knowledge of all key housing business areas, from homelessness to housing management, repairs and maintenance and development, through which you will have contributed to service and process design, continuous improvement, and performance management, including designing performance and risk management frameworks and target setting.\nTo read more about what we are doing and what a great time it is to join us, and be part of a bold plan to provide good quality homes, please visit <a href=\"https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">https://hounslowhousingjobs.pennacloud.com</a>\nClosing date: 10 March 2025.","shortDescription":"","salaryDescription":"£47,532 - £50,574","publishDate":"2025-02-17T00:00:00.000Z","expirationDate":"2025-03-10T23:59:00.000Z","logoUri":"https://www.lgjobs.com/logos/logos/ec4ac435-4b0f-41e5-8b52-d07e8520383c.jpg","score":1,"featured":false,"enhanced":false},{"id":"bff193c6-6ff7-49eb-b375-ed88a563538f","title":"Financial Inclusion Officer","employer":"London Borough of Hounslow","department":"","location":"Hounslow","locationType":3,"description":"About us at Hounslow\nWe’d love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.\nWe are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we’ve built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London’s most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.\nAbout our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion\nWe live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in “Harness the Mix”. It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.\nWe work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias. \nAs part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There’s space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.\nAbout The Role\nThis is an exciting opportunity to be part of our Housing Income Team as a Financial Inclusion Officer. Your role is to assist individuals and staff on welfare rights and debt issues by way of advice, information and representation which maximise income for residents. \nThe role is responsible for holding advice sessions at specified outreach sites in the Borough, alongside training and development for our Housing colleagues ensuring knowledge remains high within relevant departments. It is also responsible for promoting public awareness of debt and benefits issues and to monitor changes to legislation which affects claimants and people in debt. \nAbout The Team You’ll Be Working In\n·       Proactively identify, contact, visit and work with residents at risk of reduced income as a result of changes to the welfare benefit system.\n·       You will work with Allocations to help assess new tenants’ ability to afford the housing costs to ensure that all new tenancies are financially sustainable. 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Service Manager – Single Homelessness

Brent Council

£64,317 - £67,812 p.a. inc. London weighting

Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (Hybrid)

Posted 1 day ago

Revenue and Benefits Client Officer (P01451)

Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council

Starting salary £37,160 pro rata with potential progression to £39,974 pro rata inclusive

The Campus, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire (On-Site)

Posted 2 days ago

Team Manager (Adult Social Care Commissioning)

Brent Council

Salary range: £59,739 to £63,519 p.a. inc. London weighting

Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (Hybrid)

Posted 2 days ago

Head of Leisure and Parks

Brent Council

Salary range: £88,047 - £107,819 p.a. inc. London weighting

Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (Hybrid)

Posted 3 days ago

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Assistant Category Manager

Brent Council

Salary range: £53,607 - £56,646 p.a. inc. London weighting

Brent Civic Centre, Engineers Way, Wembley, Middlesex (Hybrid)

Posted 3 days ago

Lawyer / Senior Lawyer – Contract, Procurement & Information Law

Harrow Council

£45,117 to £53,108 with opportunity to progress to Senior Lawyer £60,411

Harrow (On-Site)

Posted 4 days ago

Corporate Safeguarding Officer

Hertsmere Borough Council

£36,845 - £41,577 (depending on experience)

Civic Offices, Borehamwood (Hybrid)

Posted 4 days ago

Senior Housing Solutions and Independence Officer

London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

£39,855 - £42,324

Hounslow (On-Site)

Posted 5 days ago

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Service Manager – Single Homelessness

Revenue and Benefits Client Officer (P01451)

Team Manager (Adult Social Care Commissioning)

Head of Leisure and Parks

Assistant Category Manager

Lawyer / Senior Lawyer – Contract, Procurement & Information Law

Corporate Safeguarding Officer

Senior Housing Solutions and Independence Officer

Housing Solutions and Independence Officer

Housing Regulation & Improvement Manager

Housing Income Officer

Senior Caseworker and Reviews Officer

Acquisitions Officer

Assistant Service Manager – Income

Housing Regulation & Performance Manager

Temporary Accommodation and Hostel Officer

Private Rented Sector Access Officer

Housing Regulation & Partnerships Manager

Housing Improvement Analyst

Financial Inclusion Officer

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job vacancies in Rickmansworth