Asylum Support and Resettlement Officer

Housing Options Officer - Asylum Support & Resettlement

A Local Authority in West Sussex is looking an experienced Housing Options Officer to manage homelessness cases and support refugee and asylum-seeking households into sustainable accommodation.

You will need to have experience completing homelessness assessments, determining statutory duties, managing prevention and relief cases, producing Personalised Housing Plans (PHPs), and making decisions in line with the Housing Act 1996 and Homelessness Reduction Act 2017.

You will work closely with landlords, accommodation providers and partner agencies to prevent homelessness, secure housing solutions and support vulnerable households. Experience working with refugee resettlement, asylum move-on cases, S184 decisions and complex caseloads is highly desirable.

You will be needed 1-2 days a week in the office, access to a car is preferable.

This is a 3 month initial contract, very likely to extend.

Please send your CV to (url removed) if interested.