# Temporary Accommodation Officer

**Company**: Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames
**Location**: Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: GBP 35,109 - 43,449 per year
**Category**: Social Care
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are seeking a Temporary Accommodation Officer to join our Housing Directorate. The successful candidate will play a pivotal front-line role in helping the Temporary Accommodation Team to deliver a varied workload, including managing occupants of interim and temporary accommodation, conducting property viewings and inspections, arranging tenancy sign ups, move-ins, check outs, rent accounts etc. and day to day management of placements.

The Temporary Accommodation Officer will be required to:

- Manage occupants of interim and temporary accommodation

- Conduct property viewings and inspections

- Arrange tenancy sign ups, move-ins, check outs, rent accounts etc.

- Day to day management of placements

- Ensure that the accommodation the council uses is safe, clean, in a good state of repair and that it is allocated in a manner which helps minimise the cost of delivering the service.

We are looking for a highly organised, dynamic individual, with an eye for detail and good communication and interpersonal skills. The ideal candidate will have:

- Experience of working in a busy front-line housing service or similar and/or technical experience

- Experience of working in partnership with others and using influencing/negotiating skills to achieve successful outcomes

- Ability to travel independently around Kingston and neighbouring boroughs and physically able to carry out site visits/property inspections

- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing to a range of audiences including customers, advocates and external stakeholders.

- Ability to build relationships and work in partnership with internal and external agencies to improve and promote the service.

- Ability to work unsupervised, prioritise workloads, multi-task and achieve targets and deadlines

As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we’re committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. Our benefits include:

- A generous annual leave entitlement of 25-32 days, plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply) depending on service and grade.

- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependents leave

- Three volunteering days per year in Kingston

- Hybrid working (dependent on the role)

- Flexible and agile working arrangements using Google Chromebooks

- Learning and development portal offering a range of courses

- Discounts on a range of local shops, restaurants, gyms and leisure centres

- Interest free season ticket loans

- Local Government Pension Scheme

- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme

- Electric vehicle leasing scheme

- Confidential health & wellbeing and counselling support

## Skills

### Required
- front-line housing experience
- communication skills
- interpersonal skills
- influencing skills
- negotiating skills

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