Senior Asylum & Review Housing Options Officer

What’s involved with this role:

Interim Senior Asylum & Review Housing Options Officer

Job Ref: Rugby RQ1412427

Pay Rate: £22.62 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, 09:00 – 17:30

Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months

City: RUGBY

Basic DBS disclosure required

The post-holder will complete a range of tasks to enable the front-end of the service to operate effectively.

Key responsibilities:

Assess and review housing options for individuals seeking asylum and vulnerable residents, ensuring all recommendations are in line with council policies and regulations.
Handle complex cases, providing clear guidance on housing rights, homelessness prevention, and support pathways.
Conduct thorough reviews of decisions made within the housing options service, ensuring compliance with legal standards.

Qualifications:

Degree-level education or equivalent through relevant training/experience.

Knowledge:

Knowledge of current and future challenges facing social housing and public services.
An understanding of legislation, policy, practice and current thinking around the delivery of housing needs services to residents/service users

Experience:

Experience of using case management systems including (or similar to) Jigsaw and QL.
Experience in assessment and review of section 202 required

Skills & Abilities:

Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with a diverse range of audiences and convey complex information in a straightforward way in a courteous and professional manner.
Ability to constructively challenge in the workplace – but to also overcome obstacles and proactively find solutions through logical thinking.
Ability to act flexibly and operate effectively in a changing environment, and to develop and acquire new skills and knowledge.
Ability to work highly effectively and flexibly as part of a team and to support colleagues, including managers, within a team.
IT literate: ability to work with databases and skilled in all Microsoft packages

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.

Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms, where you reside – there is no need for a full address.

Please feel free to apply to us directly via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and exact job title.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would ask that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, not as a PDF.

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.

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Job Ref: Rugby RQ1412427

Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

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