Bedford Borough Council has a great opportunity for a Housing Assessment & Advice Officer working with individuals experiencing domestic abuse.  You will work as part of a large team within the council’s Housing Options Service. If you would like to make a difference to the local community by preventing and relieving homelessness, and supporting this client group then we would love to receive your application.

You will need to have recent, relevant experience, ideally working within a Local Authority’s homelessness department but be familiar with housing assessments and the Council’s statutory homelessness duties.  You will manage your own caseload and be required to take part in a duty rota and an out- of- hours’ service.

You must be familiar with completing Personal Housing Plans and making Section 184 decisions.  If you have the necessary homelessness experience within a Local Authority or in an in depth understanding of the homelessness duties and experience working with this specific client group and you are committed to achieving fantastic housing outcomes for customers, then please apply!

This role is office based but you must have the ability to be able to travel to sites around the Borough.

This is a fixed term role to 31st March 2026

Closing date 25th September 2024 - Interviews 8th October 2024

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. If your application is successful you will be required to declare any spent and unspent convictions, adult cautions (simple or conditional) that are not "protected" as defined by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended in 2013 and 2020).

How to apply
When you are ready to apply, click on ‘Apply for Vacancy’; you will be asked to upload a CV and answer some application questions.  The application questions require a yes/no response.  Please make sure your CV shows how you meet the requirements for the role you are applying for, the job profile below will show the essential selection criteria.  An optional CV template is provided below.  


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Bedford Borough Council is proud to be a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, we pledge to interview any eligible job applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job they are applying for.

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Disabled applicants
Bedford Borough Council is  a Level 2 Disability Confident employer and guarantees to interview anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the role they are applying for.

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