4Recruitment Services are seeking a Rehousing Officer for our client based in Taunton, Somerset.The post holder will be required to work within the Councils Lettings Team and will be responsible for identifying and helping council housing tenants who are under-occupying their current property to downsize. The key objectives are to ensure the housing waiting lists are reduced, overcrowded households are provided with suitable alternative housing, increase the use of Homeswapper, the council mutual exchange system, reduce overcrowding within the local housing sector, manage flow of new tenants into social housing, reduce the number of households in temporary accommodation and the cost, and provide better incentives for tenants to move and contribute towards creating sustainable communities. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
1. Engage frequently with tenants, their family, and friends, providing solutions to meet their housing needs.
2. Responsible for ensuring relevant documentation is completed, for example: housing register application forms, tenancy agreements, tenancy termination forms, grant/tenant incentive forms and welfare benefit change of circumstances forms.
3. Responsible for updating the housing management system with changes to tenancies.
4. Responsible for determination of value of grants awarded under Somerset Council’s Transfer Removal Grant scheme, ensuring all internal financ...