Your new company
Due to the partnership between Hays and Birmingham City Council, we are looking to recruit an experienced Housing Officer to join the Ukraine Settlement Scheme team. Being the largest leading local authority in the whole of Europe, Birmingham City Council are renowned for their expertise in public services and endless opportunities. Birmingham City Council provides the city's residents with a number of services to ensure stability within citizens' daily lives.
Your new role
We are looking for two Housing Officers - Migration - on a full-time basis to provide a comprehensive, high quality Housing Advice Service for Ukrainian refugees across Birmingham and Solihull to ensure our cohort of clients are aware of the housing options available to them, based on their personal circumstances.
This work includes signposting to the various housing routes available, and advising on housing related benefits, rights and entitlement. While also assisting with moving on from the existing Host Scheme, predominantly to accommodation within the private Rented Sector making the best use of Grant Funding available for this purpose.
All of this is undertaken, seeking to improve housing and integration outcomes with a view to increase refugees' self-sufficiency within Birmingham and Solihull. Our ideal candidate will have experience of working with refugees and/or vulnerable adults, and or have significant housing/homeless experience.
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