TAMWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL

NEIGHBOURHOODS  

Housing Solutions Advisor

£24,294 - £26,421 per annum

Home working contract

37 hours per week

Permanent

Set in the beautiful county of Staffordshire, Tamworth is a vibrant town with rich heritage.  Located in the centre of Britain, with a growing population of over 77,000 people, Tamworth is a borough with much to be proud of.  Our transport links, unique shopping experience, developing town centre, green spaces, leisure offer, including our cultural and wide-ranging outdoor events programme, as well as our heritage buildings, all help make it a great place to live, work, study, and visit.

In addition to all that Tamworth already has to offer, exciting times are ahead as we embark on a period of significant transformation.  Multi-million-pound projects, such as the Future High Street Fund development will help to bring about lasting change and improvements in the future.  This will assist with our mission to restore Tamworth town centre as the beating heart of the community, a place that people want to visit, rather than a place they have to visit. 

Working for Tamworth Borough Council is more than just a job, it’s about making life better for the people who live and work in the Borough. We recognise that everybody who works at Tamworth Borough Council is key to successfully delivering its aims and objectives.  We can’t do this without skilled and ambitious workforce working in a positive environment empowered to do their best.

We are looking for an enthusiastic individual to join our Housing Solutions team in delivering an excellent customer focused housing and homeless prevention advice service.

With excellent communication and administrative skills, you will assist the Council in developing its vision for housing across all tenures and will work closely with colleagues and partners to apply a proactive, problem-solving approach to the administration of the housing register.  You will be committed to partnership working and finding new solutions to housing problems.  

You will need experience of working in a busy housing solutions role, within a housing or similar environment along with a good understanding of current housing issues and be committed to collaborative working towards shared goals.  You will also need to demonstrate experience of delivering services that perform to a high standard in line with agreed goals.

Duties include:

• Responding to all housing related and housing register enquiries, advising members of the public, other departments and outside agencies, with the aim of resolving problems at first point of enquiry
• Administering the Housing Register and associated functions, ensuring applications are screened, accurately assessed, banded and registered in line with agreed performance indicators
• Identifying households at risk of potential or threatened homelessness during screening and carry out follow-up activity in a customer focused and timely fashion in line with agreed performance indicators

This is a home working contract, and the majority of duties will be carried out at home, however, employees will be contractually required to attend site on two days per month for team meetings, 121 meetings, etc. Employees may also be required to attend a site for meetings, collaborative work or to undertake work related activities. Site attendance will constitute no more than 40% of working time and includes the contractual 2 days per month.

We have an extensive benefits package including flexible working, a non-contributory health scheme, Local Government pension scheme, generous holiday entitlement, discounted gym membership, and payment of professional fees (where applicable), for further details please refer to the application information document on our website.

Appointment will be subject to satisfactory references, right to work in the UK check, medical clearance and DBS check.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Lucy Cunnett Homes Manager 07528630047 or Sarah Finnegan Head of Homelessness and Housing Solutions 07989 441825

For further information and to apply please visit Tamworth BC Jobs.

Late applications and/or CVs will not be accepted.  Agencies need not apply.

If you have any queries about the recruitment process, please contact recruitment@tamworth.gov.uk.

Closing date: 7^th October 2024

Interviews week commencing 14^th October 2024

In the event of exceptionally high levels of response, we reserve the right to close the post before the date stated to prevent the number of applications received being unmanageable. Therefore, you are advised to submit your completed application as soon as possible to have the best chance of being considered. Following the closing date, the Recruiting Manager will shortlist, and you will be notified.

Tamworth Borough Council is proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

We operate two guaranteed interview schemes which support individuals who meet all the essential criteria to be guaranteed an interview for a vacancy. The Disability Committed Employer scheme supports applicants with a disability and the Veterans Guaranteed interview scheme supports those defined as veterans, military spouses/partners and cadet instructors.

This authority 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. DBS checks are required for relevant posts.

We are committed to ensuring that people are not disadvantaged in accessing our services.  We will make reasonable adjustments for those people that need further assistance, depending on the individual’s needs, further guidance can be found in our Reasonable Adjustments guidance Equality and diversity | Tamworth Borough Council.

Public facing roles are covered by the Fluency Duty as outlined in section 78 of the Immigration Act 2016, to serve the public it is vital that those working in public facing roles can communicate in English with members of the public receiving local authority services.