Temporary Accommodation Brokerage Officer Job Ref: Brent 5250980 Pay Rate: £13.02 per hour PAYE Hours per week: 37 Monday - Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3 months City: Middlesbrough A DBS disclosure is listed as a requirement for this role; however, the level of disclosure has not been specified by the client. The purpose of the role is to provide a support service to residents in temporary accommodation. Provide assistance within the Housing Options service as required, Key Responsibilities:
* To manage interim and temporary accommodated tenants in arranging to move in and out of accommodation this will include organising removals/storage as necessary. Taking inventory, informing council tax housing benefit and other connected agencies of tenant movement
* Undertake office-based duties, dealing with telephone and personal enquiries and provide housing advice, deal with all aspects of office administration to ensure and effective delivery of the housing service.
* Assist with the development of the procedural and policy base for the facilitation of interim Temporary accommodation management.
* Assist the Homelessness Team with Homelessness and Housing Options Enquiries.
* Have working knowledge of Legislation pertaining to Housing. Particularly the Housing Act 1996, Homelessness Act 2002 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.
* Ensure that equipment supplied in accommodation (e.g. furniture, electrical appliances etc.) are in good order and meet with all safety regulations and requirements, to arrange repairs/replacement of such items where needed.
* Make regular visits and inspections to of accommodation to ensure that it is in good order, to take full inventories and to arrange for necessary repairs, decoration and ground maintenance work to be carried out.
* Regularly inspect Bed and Breakfast accommodation that is used for emergency / interim accommodation where required provide evidence of Fire Risk Assessment, Gas & Electric safety certificates and public liability insurance.
* Ensure licensees understand and adhere to their licence conditions and deal with problems relating to tenure, including the prevention and recovery of rent arrears, property condition etc
* Ensure contractor and supplier payments are made in accordance with the Council’s policy.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly. To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than 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 this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining 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, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption 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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