We're recruiting an experienced and proactive Accommodation Officer to join a Housing Needs service within a local authority. This is an excellent opportunity for a housing professional with strong temporary accommodation and property management experience to play a key role in ensuring homeless households are placed in safe, suitable and well managed accommodation. You'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, effective tenancy management, and strong engagement with residents, landlords and partner agencies. The role is central to sustaining tenancies and reducing repeat homelessness. This role will be delivered on a hybrid basis, with a mix of home working, office attendance and on site visits to client premises. The successful candidate must have use of a car for business purposes and valid business insurance. The Role Manage a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, covering voids, lettings, tenancy management, repairs and landlord liaison. Contract manage temporary accommodation providers, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Carry out regular inspections to ensure properties meet health and safety standards, fitness requirements and local standards. Monitor and visit residents in temporary accommodation to ensure authorised occupation, vacation and repossession in line with homelessness legislation. Ensure households owed a housing duty are actively seeking alternative housing options. Provide advice and support on safeguarding, health and wellbeing, welfare rights, budgeting, tenancy management and independent living skills. Work closely with Housing Needs, Homelessness and other internal teams to ensure coordinated service delivery. Investigate complaints relating to temporary accommodation, service delivery and inter household disputes, implementing appropriate remedial action. Serve Notices to Quit, support legal proceedings, prepare witness statements and attend court where required. Manage the discharge of households, including arrangements for storage or disposal of belongings following vacation. Complete accommodation sign ups promptly to minimise void loss and rental income loss. Liaise and negotiate with landlords, agents and accommodation providers to secure suitable placements. Support residents with applications for Discretionary Housing Payments where appropriate. Identify and address tenancy breaches, fraud or misuse of accommodation proportionately and effectively. Lead on complex cases, developing support plans for households at risk of tenancy failure. Convene and participate in multi agency meetings and case conferences. Deal with safeguarding concerns in line with council procedures. Maintain accurate case records and respond to complaints, Member enquiries and correspondence professionally. Support innovation, service improvement and change initiatives within the team. Key Requirements Experience working in a frontline housing or temporary accommodation role. Proven experience managing properties, tenancies or licences, including dealing with ASB and tenancy breaches. Experience handling complex casework face to face and in writing. Strong understanding of homelessness legislation, temporary accommodation and housing management processes. Ability to carry out property inspections and identify health and safety or compliance issues. Experience working with vulnerable households and managing challenging situations sensitively. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex housing issues clearly. Ability to manage a varied caseload and work independently while contributing to a team environment. Strong record keeping and administrative skills with attention to detail. Effective numeracy skills, including assessing affordability where required. Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Full UK driving licence, use of a car for business purposes, and valid business insurance. Willingness to work flexibly, including occasional out of hours work. What You Need to Do Now If you are interested in this role and meet the criteria above, please click APPLY NOW and send us your application today. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of applying, your application has been unsuccessful.
15/01/2026
Full time
We're recruiting an experienced and proactive Accommodation Officer to join a Housing Needs service within a local authority. This is an excellent opportunity for a housing professional with strong temporary accommodation and property management experience to play a key role in ensuring homeless households are placed in safe, suitable and well managed accommodation. You'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, effective tenancy management, and strong engagement with residents, landlords and partner agencies. The role is central to sustaining tenancies and reducing repeat homelessness. This role will be delivered on a hybrid basis, with a mix of home working, office attendance and on site visits to client premises. The successful candidate must have use of a car for business purposes and valid business insurance. The Role Manage a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, covering voids, lettings, tenancy management, repairs and landlord liaison. Contract manage temporary accommodation providers, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Carry out regular inspections to ensure properties meet health and safety standards, fitness requirements and local standards. Monitor and visit residents in temporary accommodation to ensure authorised occupation, vacation and repossession in line with homelessness legislation. Ensure households owed a housing duty are actively seeking alternative housing options. Provide advice and support on safeguarding, health and wellbeing, welfare rights, budgeting, tenancy management and independent living skills. Work closely with Housing Needs, Homelessness and other internal teams to ensure coordinated service delivery. Investigate complaints relating to temporary accommodation, service delivery and inter household disputes, implementing appropriate remedial action. Serve Notices to Quit, support legal proceedings, prepare witness statements and attend court where required. Manage the discharge of households, including arrangements for storage or disposal of belongings following vacation. Complete accommodation sign ups promptly to minimise void loss and rental income loss. Liaise and negotiate with landlords, agents and accommodation providers to secure suitable placements. Support residents with applications for Discretionary Housing Payments where appropriate. Identify and address tenancy breaches, fraud or misuse of accommodation proportionately and effectively. Lead on complex cases, developing support plans for households at risk of tenancy failure. Convene and participate in multi agency meetings and case conferences. Deal with safeguarding concerns in line with council procedures. Maintain accurate case records and respond to complaints, Member enquiries and correspondence professionally. Support innovation, service improvement and change initiatives within the team. Key Requirements Experience working in a frontline housing or temporary accommodation role. Proven experience managing properties, tenancies or licences, including dealing with ASB and tenancy breaches. Experience handling complex casework face to face and in writing. Strong understanding of homelessness legislation, temporary accommodation and housing management processes. Ability to carry out property inspections and identify health and safety or compliance issues. Experience working with vulnerable households and managing challenging situations sensitively. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex housing issues clearly. Ability to manage a varied caseload and work independently while contributing to a team environment. Strong record keeping and administrative skills with attention to detail. Effective numeracy skills, including assessing affordability where required. Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Full UK driving licence, use of a car for business purposes, and valid business insurance. Willingness to work flexibly, including occasional out of hours work. What You Need to Do Now If you are interested in this role and meet the criteria above, please click APPLY NOW and send us your application today. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of applying, your application has been unsuccessful.
We're recruiting an experienced and proactive Accommodation Officer to join a Housing Needs service within a local authority. This is an excellent opportunity for a housing professional with strong temporary accommodation and property management experience to play a key role in ensuring homeless households are placed in safe, suitable and well-managed accommodation. You'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, effective tenancy management, and strong engagement with residents, landlords and partner agencies. The role is central to sustaining tenancies and reducing repeat homelessness. This role will be delivered on a hybrid basis, with a mix of home working, office attendance and on-site visits to client premises. The successful candidate must have use of a car for business purposes and valid business insurance. The Role Manage a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, covering voids, lettings, tenancy management, repairs and landlord liaison. Contract manage temporary accommodation providers, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Carry out regular inspections to ensure properties meet health and safety standards, fitness requirements and local standards. Monitor and visit residents in temporary accommodation to ensure authorised occupation, vacation and repossession in line with homelessness legislation. Ensure households owed a housing duty are actively seeking alternative housing options. Provide advice and support on safeguarding, health and wellbeing, welfare rights, budgeting, tenancy management and independent living skills. Work closely with Housing Needs, Homelessness and other internal teams to ensure coordinated service delivery. Investigate complaints relating to temporary accommodation, service delivery and inter-household disputes, implementing appropriate remedial action. Serve Notices to Quit, support legal proceedings, prepare witness statements and attend court where required. Manage the discharge of households, including arrangements for storage or disposal of belongings following vacation. Complete accommodation sign-ups promptly to minimise void loss and rental income loss. Liaise and negotiate with landlords, agents and accommodation providers to secure suitable placements. Support residents with applications for Discretionary Housing Payments where appropriate. Identify and address tenancy breaches, fraud or misuse of accommodation proportionately and effectively. Lead on complex cases, developing support plans for households at risk of tenancy failure. Convene and participate in multi-agency meetings and case conferences. Deal with safeguarding concerns in line with council procedures. Maintain accurate case records and respond to complaints, Member enquiries and correspondence professionally. Support innovation, service improvement and change initiatives within the team. Key Requirements Experience working in a frontline housing or temporary accommodation role. Proven experience managing properties, tenancies or licences, including dealing with ASB and tenancy breaches. Experience handling complex casework face-to-face and in writing. Strong understanding of homelessness legislation, temporary accommodation and housing management processes. Ability to carry out property inspections and identify health and safety or compliance issues. Experience working with vulnerable households and managing challenging situations sensitively. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex housing issues clearly. Ability to manage a varied caseload and work independently while contributing to a team environment. Strong record-keeping and administrative skills with attention to detail. Effective numeracy skills, including assessing affordability where required. Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Full UK driving licence, use of a car for business purposes, and valid business insurance. Willingness to work flexibly, including occasional out-of-hours work. What You Need to Do Now If you are interested in this role and meet the criteria above, please click APPLY NOW and send us your application today. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of applying, your application has been unsuccessful. Footnote If you feel that this job matches your skills but not the rate, location or seniority, please feel free to send us your CV anyway. We constantly recruit for similar roles across all levels, UK-wide, and would be pleased to speak with you confidentially about your employment status. Even if you're currently satisfied in your role, we welcome calls from housing management and temporary accommodation professionals looking to make future connections. Our specialist team at Carrington West has over 100 years of combined experience in this market. For more information, call Zubair at Carrington West on (phone number removed). By applying for this position, you agree for Carrington West to hold and process your personal data in accordance with our Data Protection Policy. Your data will only be shared with third-party clients for roles relevant to your application. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.
12/01/2026
Contract
We're recruiting an experienced and proactive Accommodation Officer to join a Housing Needs service within a local authority. This is an excellent opportunity for a housing professional with strong temporary accommodation and property management experience to play a key role in ensuring homeless households are placed in safe, suitable and well-managed accommodation. You'll be responsible for managing a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, effective tenancy management, and strong engagement with residents, landlords and partner agencies. The role is central to sustaining tenancies and reducing repeat homelessness. This role will be delivered on a hybrid basis, with a mix of home working, office attendance and on-site visits to client premises. The successful candidate must have use of a car for business purposes and valid business insurance. The Role Manage a portfolio of temporary accommodation and PSL properties, covering voids, lettings, tenancy management, repairs and landlord liaison. Contract manage temporary accommodation providers, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations. Carry out regular inspections to ensure properties meet health and safety standards, fitness requirements and local standards. Monitor and visit residents in temporary accommodation to ensure authorised occupation, vacation and repossession in line with homelessness legislation. Ensure households owed a housing duty are actively seeking alternative housing options. Provide advice and support on safeguarding, health and wellbeing, welfare rights, budgeting, tenancy management and independent living skills. Work closely with Housing Needs, Homelessness and other internal teams to ensure coordinated service delivery. Investigate complaints relating to temporary accommodation, service delivery and inter-household disputes, implementing appropriate remedial action. Serve Notices to Quit, support legal proceedings, prepare witness statements and attend court where required. Manage the discharge of households, including arrangements for storage or disposal of belongings following vacation. Complete accommodation sign-ups promptly to minimise void loss and rental income loss. Liaise and negotiate with landlords, agents and accommodation providers to secure suitable placements. Support residents with applications for Discretionary Housing Payments where appropriate. Identify and address tenancy breaches, fraud or misuse of accommodation proportionately and effectively. Lead on complex cases, developing support plans for households at risk of tenancy failure. Convene and participate in multi-agency meetings and case conferences. Deal with safeguarding concerns in line with council procedures. Maintain accurate case records and respond to complaints, Member enquiries and correspondence professionally. Support innovation, service improvement and change initiatives within the team. Key Requirements Experience working in a frontline housing or temporary accommodation role. Proven experience managing properties, tenancies or licences, including dealing with ASB and tenancy breaches. Experience handling complex casework face-to-face and in writing. Strong understanding of homelessness legislation, temporary accommodation and housing management processes. Ability to carry out property inspections and identify health and safety or compliance issues. Experience working with vulnerable households and managing challenging situations sensitively. Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex housing issues clearly. Ability to manage a varied caseload and work independently while contributing to a team environment. Strong record-keeping and administrative skills with attention to detail. Effective numeracy skills, including assessing affordability where required. Degree-level qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Full UK driving licence, use of a car for business purposes, and valid business insurance. Willingness to work flexibly, including occasional out-of-hours work. What You Need to Do Now If you are interested in this role and meet the criteria above, please click APPLY NOW and send us your application today. If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of applying, your application has been unsuccessful. Footnote If you feel that this job matches your skills but not the rate, location or seniority, please feel free to send us your CV anyway. We constantly recruit for similar roles across all levels, UK-wide, and would be pleased to speak with you confidentially about your employment status. Even if you're currently satisfied in your role, we welcome calls from housing management and temporary accommodation professionals looking to make future connections. Our specialist team at Carrington West has over 100 years of combined experience in this market. For more information, call Zubair at Carrington West on (phone number removed). By applying for this position, you agree for Carrington West to hold and process your personal data in accordance with our Data Protection Policy. Your data will only be shared with third-party clients for roles relevant to your application. You may withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.
Job Title Temporary Accommodation Officer Contract & Location Permanent, Kingston Role Purpose To ensure the effective and efficient management of the Council's Temporary Accommodation portfolio in accordance with relevant legislation, policies, and procedures. Key Responsibilities Deliver a high-quality temporary accommodation management service across Council hostels, private sector leased accommodation, spot-purchased homes, and supported accommodation. Undertake property viewings, sign-ups, and lettings, ensuring residents understand licence/tenancy conditions and rent payment methods. Support residents to sustain accommodation by assisting with Housing Benefit applications at the start of lettings. Ensure rent accounts are correctly set up and closed, monitoring arrears and identifying cases requiring further action. Carry out property inspections at pre-void, void, re-let, and through planned inspection programmes. Ensure all properties meet repairing obligations and health and housing safety rating standards. Arrange, monitor, and follow up repairs with providers and contractors, ensuring completion within agreed timescales. Ensure compliance certification is in place, including fire safety and person-centred fire risk assessments. Record, escape, and refer unresolved hazards, disrepair, or compliance breaches appropriately. Minimise void turnaround times and reduce rent loss. Manage relationships with residents, responding to enquiries and complaints relating to property condition, repairs, and tenancy matters. Investigate and record anti-social behaviour, licence breaches, unauthorised occupation, sub-letting, and abandonment. Liaise with Legal Services on possession action and represent the Council at court hearings and evictions when required. Work with the Housing Access and Housing Solutions teams on suitability, transfers, alternative placements, and discharge of duty. Identify safeguarding risks, welfare needs, and support requirements of residents. Raise safeguarding alerts and attend multi-agency meetings. Refer residents to appropriate support services, including welfare benefits, debt advice, employment support, and social care. Build and maintain effective working relationships with temporary accommodation providers, housing associations, and private landlords. Work collaboratively with internal teams including Housing, Social Care, Finance, Benefits, Environmental Health, Building Control, and Fraud. Support the maximisation of private sector accommodation options to reduce reliance on bed and breakfast placements. Contribute to service planning, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives. Maintain accurate records and provide performance data and reports to the Team Manager. Keep up to date with relevant housing and homelessness legislation and policy, providing specialist advice to colleagues as required. Participate in the out-of-hours rota to support temporary accommodation residents during emergencies. Embed equality, fairness, inclusion, and respect in all aspects of service delivery and team working. Act in accordance with the Council's values and commitment to community cohesion. Person Specification Knowledge Knowledge of private sector housing law and security of tenure, including Assured Shorthold Tenancies. Knowledge of repairing and health and safety obligations relating to temporary accommodation. Understanding of the needs of homeless households in temporary accommodation. Knowledge of Part VI of the Housing Act 1996 and homelessness legislation (Desirable). Experience Experience working in a busy frontline housing or similar customer-facing service. Experience of managing complex casework. Experience of partnership working, negotiation, and influencing to achieve outcomes. Skills & Abilities Strong customer focus with the ability to manage challenging behaviour. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong organisational and administrative skills with attention to detail. Ability to interpret complex information and apply it effectively in practice. Ability to prioritise, problem-solve creatively, and meet deadlines in a pressured environment. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills. Commitment to ongoing professional development and learning. Confident use of digital systems and agile working practices.
11/01/2026
Full time
Job Title Temporary Accommodation Officer Contract & Location Permanent, Kingston Role Purpose To ensure the effective and efficient management of the Council's Temporary Accommodation portfolio in accordance with relevant legislation, policies, and procedures. Key Responsibilities Deliver a high-quality temporary accommodation management service across Council hostels, private sector leased accommodation, spot-purchased homes, and supported accommodation. Undertake property viewings, sign-ups, and lettings, ensuring residents understand licence/tenancy conditions and rent payment methods. Support residents to sustain accommodation by assisting with Housing Benefit applications at the start of lettings. Ensure rent accounts are correctly set up and closed, monitoring arrears and identifying cases requiring further action. Carry out property inspections at pre-void, void, re-let, and through planned inspection programmes. Ensure all properties meet repairing obligations and health and housing safety rating standards. Arrange, monitor, and follow up repairs with providers and contractors, ensuring completion within agreed timescales. Ensure compliance certification is in place, including fire safety and person-centred fire risk assessments. Record, escape, and refer unresolved hazards, disrepair, or compliance breaches appropriately. Minimise void turnaround times and reduce rent loss. Manage relationships with residents, responding to enquiries and complaints relating to property condition, repairs, and tenancy matters. Investigate and record anti-social behaviour, licence breaches, unauthorised occupation, sub-letting, and abandonment. Liaise with Legal Services on possession action and represent the Council at court hearings and evictions when required. Work with the Housing Access and Housing Solutions teams on suitability, transfers, alternative placements, and discharge of duty. Identify safeguarding risks, welfare needs, and support requirements of residents. Raise safeguarding alerts and attend multi-agency meetings. Refer residents to appropriate support services, including welfare benefits, debt advice, employment support, and social care. Build and maintain effective working relationships with temporary accommodation providers, housing associations, and private landlords. Work collaboratively with internal teams including Housing, Social Care, Finance, Benefits, Environmental Health, Building Control, and Fraud. Support the maximisation of private sector accommodation options to reduce reliance on bed and breakfast placements. Contribute to service planning, performance monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives. Maintain accurate records and provide performance data and reports to the Team Manager. Keep up to date with relevant housing and homelessness legislation and policy, providing specialist advice to colleagues as required. Participate in the out-of-hours rota to support temporary accommodation residents during emergencies. Embed equality, fairness, inclusion, and respect in all aspects of service delivery and team working. Act in accordance with the Council's values and commitment to community cohesion. Person Specification Knowledge Knowledge of private sector housing law and security of tenure, including Assured Shorthold Tenancies. Knowledge of repairing and health and safety obligations relating to temporary accommodation. Understanding of the needs of homeless households in temporary accommodation. Knowledge of Part VI of the Housing Act 1996 and homelessness legislation (Desirable). Experience Experience working in a busy frontline housing or similar customer-facing service. Experience of managing complex casework. Experience of partnership working, negotiation, and influencing to achieve outcomes. Skills & Abilities Strong customer focus with the ability to manage challenging behaviour. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong organisational and administrative skills with attention to detail. Ability to interpret complex information and apply it effectively in practice. Ability to prioritise, problem-solve creatively, and meet deadlines in a pressured environment. Strong interpersonal and negotiation skills. Commitment to ongoing professional development and learning. Confident use of digital systems and agile working practices.
