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Tenancy Management & Resettlement Officer Housing Lewisham Contract £22.78 per hour PAYE or £29.15 per hour limited paid via Umbrella Company inside IR35 Our client is looking for an experienced Tenancy Management & Resettlement Officer (SO2) Housing. Main Purpose of the job: Provide excellent tenancy sustainment support ensuring tenancies in the private rented sector are sustained to provide safe and secure housing for our customers whilst meeting local and corporate objectives. To provide a high quality advice, lettings and tenancy sustainment service that maximises the number of homeless households who are able to move successfully into good quality, affordable private rented accommodation for clients from various services such as HOC, CYP and NRTPF. To promote the use of the private rented sector as a viable alternative to social rented housing, in order to encourage independence, prevent homelessness, provide settled housing solutions and reduce the Council s use of temporary accommodation. To effectively report, as required, on performance, against local and corporate targets. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE OPPORTUNITIES colbernlimited co uk The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer.

Housing Solutions Officer - Migration 1 Year Fixed-Term Contract/Secondment About us at Hounslow We'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. We 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. About our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion We 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. We 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. As 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. About The Role This is an exciting opportunity to join our Homelessness, Independence and Preventative Services which adopts a preventative approach across the housing, health and social care agendas. 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. You will need to be energetic, enthusiastic and ready for a new and exciting challenge where every day is different. You will have relevant work-based experience and want to continue to learn and develop your knowledge and skills. You will be working partly from home but you must be able to travel independently and carry out visits to temporary accommodation both within and outside of the Hounslow Borough. About The Team You'll Be Working In This 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. This role is to carry out holistic housing needs and risk assessments in a variety of settings in line with the homelessness reduction act. You will provide practical support to resettle and integrate people within a local community. Promote personal independence and resilience to ensure accommodation can be obtained and/or maintained. To devise, monitor and review personalised housing and resettlement plans. Knowledge of refugee rights and entitlements and an appreciation of key cultural sensitivities. Practical understanding of working with safeguarding, equality, immigration and diversity matters. The ability to communicate verbally and in writing with a diverse range of audiences including managers, landlords, solicitors and vulnerable customers. About You You have experience of working in a multi-disciplinary way in a customer orientated environment involving complex and diverse client groups and an understanding of complex legislative frameworks including homelessness, social care, mental health, immigration and welfare benefits. 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. You act with integrity, take personal responsibility and handle stress effectively while maintaining high levels of motivation and enthusiasm to achieve successful resettlement, community integration, and corporate preventative outcomes, using proactive and creative solutions. You work independently, proactively and flexibly, being an expert problem solver demonstrating excellent analytical skills, while you research and apply relevant legislation and policy to complex and contentious cases and make decisions confidently. 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. 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. If the points below resonate with you, we'd love you to put in an application: Are you passionate about customer services? Are you an experienced homelessness professional? Are you looking to working in a forward thinking and progressive housing department? Closing date: 10 March 2025.

My client, a Southeast London local authority seek an experienced tenancy Management and Resettlement Office to start this ongoing temp booking asap! The candidate for this role needs to provide excellent tenancy sustainment support ensuring tenancies in the private rented sector are sustained to provide safe and secure housing for our customers whilst meeting local and corporate objectives. Customer care, lettings advice and supporting the tenant to sustain their tenancy is a major part of this role. In line with maximizing the number of homeless households who can move successfully into good quality, affordable private rented accommodation from various services such as HOC, CYP and NRTPF. To promote the use of the private rented sector as a viable alternative to social rented housing, in order to encourage independence, prevent homelessness, provide settled housing solutions and reduce the Council's use of temporary accommodation.To effectively report, as required, on performance, against local and corporate targets. Experience in discharging duty , robust suitability checks and home visits would also be beneficial in this role officers will be expected to come in for now 2 days a week DBS Type - Basic Hourly Rate - £19.91 PAYE - £24.72 Umbrella Working Hours - 9am - 5pm Mon-Fri Immediate start Ongoing temp booking

A fantastic opportunity has emerged for an Ex-Offender Resettlement Scheme Team Leader to join the housing department at one of Adecco's leading public sector clients in a temporary role for the next 3-6 months. Our client is based in Sutton in South London, but this is a hybrid role so will be a mixture of office (2 days each week) and home working (as well as being out on visits with your staff, when required). This role is for 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) and is focused on supporting and coaching to empower the customer to prevent future homelessness and improve their health & wellbeing. Key elements of the role include: Managing individual accounts within agreed budgets. Being responsible for the day-to-day line management of the Ex Offenders Housing Options & Floating Support Officers, including organising and planning the work, motivating and supporting the staff member, identifying and meeting training needs etc. Contributing to the recruitment, appointment and induction of staff members througheffective use of organisational policies and procedures. Providing advice in such areas, but not exclusively, as security of tenure, housing rights following relationship breakdown, welfare and housing benefits, tax credits, debt counselling, housing options etc. Developing and maintaining close and effective multi-agency partnership working arrangements with the probation and prison service and a wide range of other services or stakeholders, developing a robust pathway and solution focussed approach to resolving barriers for prisoners in accessing accommodation, with a clear focus on early intervention, and raising the profile of services available. Carrying a caseload of more complex cases, taking a casework approach to meet the needs of this client group assisting them to access services, take control of their future, maximise their opportunities and prevent or relieve homelessness. This may include making visits to prisons, locally or further afield. Developing and delivering outreach and support to professionals in key locations to achieve early intervention and prevent homelessness. Taking a lead role in the development and delivery of services to Ex-Offenders including organising monthly monitoring meetings, and provision of monthly monitoring and performance reports to MHCLG. Carrying out effective casework supervision and being responsible for monitoring staff performance The successful candidate will ideally need to possess: A proven track record in delivering advice, guidance and support in a complex environment combined with a good working knowledge of Housing legislation in particular, Part VI and VII of the Housing Act 1996 (as amended). Experience of managing or leading a team in a customer focussed service and delivering support that improves wellbeing of individuals or families. Experience of producing and analysing management information and statistics. Only applicants who feel they meet the above criteria, are comfortable working in and around Sutton in South London, can interview in mid/late December and start on short notice (1-3 weeks' notice) need apply as our client is keen to hire as soon as possible for this post due to a member of staff about to go on maternity leave.

My client, a Southeast London local authority seek an experienced tenancy Management and Resettlement Office to start this ongoing temp booking asap! The candidate for this role needs to provide excellent tenancy sustainment support ensuring tenancies in the private rented sector are sustained to provide safe and secure housing for our customers whilst meeting local and corporate objectives. Customer care, lettings advice and supporting the tenant to sustain their tenancy is a major part of this role. In line with maximizing the number of homeless households who can move successfully into good quality, affordable private rented accommodation from various services such as HOC, CYP and NRTPF. To promote the use of the private rented sector as a viable alternative to social rented housing, in order to encourage independence, prevent homelessness, provide settled housing solutions and reduce the Council's use of temporary accommodation.To effectively report, as required, on performance, against local and corporate targets. Experience in discharging duty , robust suitability checks and home visits would also be beneficial in this role officers will be expected to come in for now 2 days a week DBS Type - Basic Hourly Rate - £19.91 PAYE - £24.72 Umbrella Working Hours - 9am - 5pm Mon-Fri Immediate start Ongoing temp booking

INTERVENTIONS ALLIANCE is the Justice and Social Care division of Seetec, delivering tailored support to participants across a range of contracts, including as CFO Activity Hubs, Education, Training and Employment (ETE), Accommodation and Approved Premises. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to build a better future, regardless their past choices or the challenges they face. We are committed to combining our knowledge, skills and talents across the justice and social care sectors to deliver services and interventions that overcome the barriers that hold people back from living more fulfilled lives. Using an evidence-led approach, we collaborate with like like-minded organisations to address challenges and long-term issues that have previously prevented the individual's progress. We give equal importance to delivering services focussed on prevention as those aiding rehabilitation, providing our participants with the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Our approach is unique within the sector, using our research base and experience to design and innovate new interventions that address areas of critical need. We don't sit back and accept that standardised, traditional approaches are always the best solution; nor do we wait to react to a new area of demand. By working proactively, we aim to transform provision across the justice and social care sectors. Ultimately, our aim is to equip individuals with the necessary skills needed to desist from offending, successfully reintegrate into to their local communities and address barriers to work. We are recruiting an Accommodation Support Officer to be part of the Dynamic Framework Accommodation Service to ensure delivery of effective interventions and stakeholder liaison in custody and in the community in order to support male participants throughout the region to address their housing needs and reduce their likelihood of reoffending. This role will help reduce the incidence of re-offending through the use of referral pathways to interventions using an engaged, collaborative and motivational style and a focus on community re-integration and the principles of Desistance. Our successful candidate will have highly effective interpersonal and communication skills and have experience of working with a variety of people who have experienced a range of social/personal difficulties. You will have experience of supporting resettlement activity within homelessness services and knowledge and experience of the work of the Criminal Justice System and of Homelessness Legislation. Key Responsibilities * Work in close partnership with probation practitioners in order to understand and respond to the specific and diverse housing needs of the participants. * Engage with actual and potential referral agencies, authorities and organisations to facilitate relevant referrals to programmes / activities / services as required. * Carry out timely initial face to face housing assessments taking account of risk situation and need in order to facilitate any appropriate actions and outcomes * Construct an effective accommodation plan based on an initial assessment of the participants needs and abilities. * Maintain contact with participants in accordance with the requirements of the service. * Actively and collaboratively engage with participants in decisions that affect them, informing them of their procedural and representational rights. * Identify and maintain focus on achievement of the desired outcomes for participants from the service being delivered. * Develop effective stakeholder relationships with appropriate external groups, agencies and authorities in order to support participants housing needs and support requirements. Skills & Experience * Experience of group work * Experience of working with a variety of people who have experienced a range of social/personal difficulties. * Be able to evidence experience of supporting resettlement activity within homelessness services * Knowledge and experience of the work of the Criminal Justice System. * Knowledge of Homelessness Legislation * Highly effective interpersonal and communication skills both verbally and in writing. * Ability to input and retrieve electronic data and maintain computer-based information systems in an accurate and timely manner. * Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships. * Ability to work respectfully, cooperatively and flexibly with others both on a 1:1 basis and as part of a team. * Ability to plan and conduct structured meetings with individuals or groups. * Ability to contribute to the assessment and management of risk. * Confident with the ability to exercise authority and reinforce boundaries in an appropriate manner. * Good organisational and administration skills and the ability to meet deadlines. * Ability to motivate others and facilitate learning in order to change attitudes and behaviour. * Ability to work independently * Experience of delivering support services to complex and vulnerable groups * Ability to achieve individual performance goals and/or contribute towards team and organisational targets. * Must be able to work flexibly across the region, covering multiple offices and to work up to four unsocial shifts (including Saturdays) per week Salary: Up to £24,801 per annum (dependent on experience) Location: HMP Bristol, HMP Leyhill, Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week Closing Date: 9th December 2021 Benefits: 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off, Pension, Competitive Salary, optional discounted Medical and Health Cash Plans, Employee Assistance Programme, Cycle to Work Scheme, Eye Care Scheme, access to a wide range of local and national discounts. In light of Covid 19 all interviews will be undertaken via Microsoft Teams. Seetec - Interventions Alliance is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values. Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Seetec - Interventions Alliance support the recruitment of ex- offenders and will not discriminate in anyway. Our full policy statement of "Ex-Offenders" can be found on our website under" About us" Seetec - Interventions Alliance is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity