Rehousing Officer

Job description

Contract Terms

Contract Type: Full -Time, Permanent
Salary: PO2 £41,442 – £44,331 per annum
Interview Date: Wednesday 6th August 2025
Closing Date: Sunday 27th July 2025

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

As a Rehousing Officer working in a busy front line homelessness service, you will play a critical role in helping families in temporary accommodation secure moves into settled homes. Working directly with a limited number of homeless families at a time, you will provide intensive support and advice to enable them to access good quality housing options based on their circumstances.

You will be joining a team committed to making a positive difference to people’s lives at the start of an exciting change in approach to supporting households in temporary accommodation. Whilst working in the team will be challenging and fast paced, you’ll be supported to achieve success, developing new skills and experience along the way.

About you

As a highly motivated individual with a passion for supporting people, you will employ your skills to build positive relationships, problem solve and work flexibly to help households secure positive housing solutions. You will be able to have impactful conversations that balance the need to genuinely respond to peoples’ wishes whilst also acknowledging the realities of a shortage of affordable accommodation. You won’t need experience in a housing role, but must have the ability to quickly develop a solid understanding of housing law and practice. You will be highly articulate both verbally and in writing, able to communicate complicated information in an accessible way.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community. 

Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement up to 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.

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