Resettlement and Support Officer £37,443 - £39,264 per annum About Us Newham is a vibrant inner-city borough with excellent transport. We are proud to be home to one of the youngest and most diverse cultures across the country, Newham is an exciting and challenging borough that is committed to putting people at the heart of everything we do. The Borough boasts iconic landmarks such as, Green Street, the Olympic Park, Excel centre, Westfield Shopping Centre and the University of East London. Newham is changing rapidly, benefiting from significant investment, creating new jobs, homes and opportunities for all. The Mayor of London has provided the Borough with £107 million funding through the ‘Building Council Homes for Londoners’ programme, supporting the construction of 1,100 new homes by 2022. From this we expect to see an additional 2,500 jobs created over the next decade, injecting £1.5 billion to the local economy. About the Role The purpose of this role is to provide services to homeless households accommodated across all forms of temporary accommodation, connecting them to support and assistance provided by local Voluntary, Community and Faith organisations, schools, Children’s Centres, Health and Adult Social Care partners as well as working to resettle them into suitable accommodation which either meets the Council’s ongoing statutory homelessness duty or alternatively ends the main homelessness duty with a private rented sector offer. Following a service re-design, this new role will be pivotal in providing a customer focussed approach to those in emergency and temporary accommodation by helping them move into more settled, permanent accommodation. The variety of duties will include assessing households accommodation needs, promoting the range of alternative housing options, including but not limited to supporting vulnerable households and signposting to additional providers as is suitable, sourcing private sector accommodation and nominating to accommodation from registered providers . If you are driven to making a difference in supporting household in need of support and assistance in finding permanent accommodation we would love to hear from you. With a demonstrable awareness of housing legislation, or ability to evidence how practical knowledge will be applied, this role will aim at providing a supportive environment for households to empower them in finding a home. https://www.newham.gov.uk/downloads/file/7872/resettlement-and-support-officer-jd Closing date: 16th September 2024 Additional Information We are committed to creating an inclusive, anti-racist environment for all. When you apply for a job at Newham, your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. If you share our vision and values, and you bring the experience and skills we need, that’s all that matters to us. The London Borough of Newham has important responsibilities for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. If you are appointed to a job that involves working with these groups, you may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Please attach your supporting statement, explaining in no more than x2 A4 sides why and how you meet the criteria for this role. We practice anonymised recruitment. Please ensure that you remove all personal information from any documents that you upload. The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.