Temporary Accommodation Officer

Seven Resourcing are currently looking for a Temporary Accommodation Officer to work within the Royal Borough of Kingston. The role is to manage the Council’s temporary accommodation within its own in-borough Hostels and portfolio of leased property procured from private landlords. This mainly involves health and safety inspections of properties and covering concierge duties in our 4 hostels. You will need the ability to travel around Kingston and surrounding boroughs to visit properties on a day to day basis.

Some Key Information is Highlighted Below: 

Rate: £20.73 per hour. 

Hours: 36 per week. 

Essential Knowledge: 

• Knowledge of private sector housing law and security of tenure, particularly Assured Shorthold Tenancies.
• Knowledge of repairing and health and safety obligations relating to temporary accommodation and standards in the private sector.
• An understanding of the needs of homeless households in temporary accommodation. 

Essential Experience:

•  Experience of working in a busy frontline housing service or similar and/or significant technical experience.
• Experience of partnership working and influencing and negotiating to achieve successful outcomes.
• Experience of conducting high quality casework/

Essential Skills: 

• Ability to work with others to achieve excellent performance.
• Has the ability to understand and assimilate complex information, and translate that information into innovation in practice and management.
• Customer service focused, able to develop productive working relationships and respond effectively to challenging behaviours from customers.
• Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to a range of audiences including customers, advocates and external stakeholders.

Compliance Requirements:

• 2 years referencing
• Right to Work
• Enhanced DBS

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