Department: Place
Team: Housing Options
Hours: 37 hours
Grade: F SCP 17 £23,836 to SCP 23 £26,999, plus essential car user allowance
Contract: 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Town Hall, Bolton, BL1 1RU
Essential Requirements: Driving
The Role:
Bolton Council has secured funding from the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (MHCLG) to tackle rough sleeping, through the Government’s Rough Sleeping Strategy.
ü Rough Sleeper Move-On Officer (Local Lettings Agency - Rapid Rehousing Pathway) (37hrs) will play a lead role in developing working relationships with landlords and maximise opportunities for access to private rented accommodation for rough sleepers and other homeless people.
ü Work closely with LLA Project Officer, outreach workers and other agencies to provide a co-ordinated response to supporting rough sleepers into suitable settled accommodation and in particular private rented accommodation
About You:
As Rough Sleeping Move-On Officer you will:
ü have excellent communication skills, working effectively with landlords and tenants to secure and sustain tenancies and respond to any issue sensitively ensuring that successful outcomes are achieved;
ü be skilled in negotiation, able to build trust and confidence with both landlords and people in need in order to increase access to private rented accommodation;
be able to demonstrate initiative, quickly assimilate information, demonstrate excellent networking and time management skills and an ability to plan and successfully improve access for rough sleepers to private rented accommodation.
About Us:
An opportunity to work within a team committed to tackling rough sleeping and homelessness by positively affecting improvement in people’s lives. The role offers great variety and opportunities to work flexibly in delivering improved landlord take-up and increased access for homeless people to decent affordable private rented accommodation. This challenging area of work will provide very tangible work satisfaction in achieving positive outcomes for people. Bolton Council is a great organisation to work for, being very focussed on working to improve the lives of all residents of the borough, in particular those experiencing greatest level of vulnerability and need.
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This post is a designated customer facing role under the fluency duty and requires a specified level of spoken English as per the person specification.
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