Housing Options Advisor

Job Introduction

Housing Options Advisor

Fixed term contract until June 2026, 37 hours per week

£29,269 – £33,024 per annum

Wychavon and Malvern Hills District Councils are committed to delivering excellent advice and support services to homeless people approaching the council for housing assistance.

The candidate we are looking to join our team would need to demonstrate their experience of delivering good quality homelessness advice or services. They would be a key point of contact for those facing homelessness to deliver the Council’s statutory obligations under the Housing Act 1996 Part Vll, and the Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

The ability to empathise with clients and engage with potentially vulnerable people is essential.

The role involves:

• Interviewing those approaching the Council as homeless.
• Working with clients to find solutions to their homelessness
• Administering and discharging the Council’s statutory and regulatory obligations to people threatened with or experiencing homelessness.
• Writing to clients accepting and ending legal duties.
• Liaison with statutory and non-statutory agencies to investigate homelessness and to assist in the prevention or relief of homelessness.
• Giving housing advice tailored to the needs of the clients 

About you 

To be considered for this role you will need: 

• To be customer focused and dedicated to providing an excellent service
• Have previous experience of working in a similar role in a housing or customer service environment 
• Be a team player 
• Have good I.T. skills
• Be able to initiate creative solutions for service improvements
• To be able to prioritise a varied workload
• To be able to deal with difficult situations in a calm and caring manner
• Previous experience in a similar role
• A good level of numeracy and literacy skills
• A detailed knowledge of housing related legislation
• Excellent computer skills and good working knowledge of computer systems 

This post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service Check.

What we can offer 

Our staff are at the heart of what we do, and as a result we are always looking to recruit, develop and retain the very best talent we can find.  So, as well as a rewarding career, we offer a range of attractive benefits, such as:

• Excellent pension scheme with employer contributions
• Generous annual leave entitlement with options to purchase additional annual leave
• Committed training programme and development opportunities
• Onsite nursery with 20% staff discount
• Discounted Gym and swim membership
• Health and Wellbeing support and a Free Employee Assistance scheme including access to counselling services
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Discounts with a range of companies including EE and the Kaarp discount scheme.

We are an employer that values face to face communication, collaboration and connection, therefore all our roles have an office based requirement with some agile working as part of the role.

To discuss the post or for further information, please call Peter Stock, Principal Housing Officer, on 07929 714803

Closing date: 30 June 2024

Interview date: 04 July 2024

Please note if we experience a high intake of applications, we may close the role and interview for the position sooner than advertised.