£22.20 per hour PAYE | 37 hours per week | Mainly Remote
Lynx Employment Services is recruiting for an experienced Housing Advice & Prevention Officer to join the Housing Needs Team at East Suffolk Council.
This role is ideally suited to someone with local authority housing and homelessness experience who is confident assessing homelessness applications and making and writing homelessness decisions.
The role
You will be working within the Housing Needs Team, providing housing advice and homelessness prevention support. The successful candidate will need experience of:
Assessing homelessness applications
Providing housing advice and homelessness prevention support
Writing homelessness decisions
Working within a local authority housing team
Applying Parts 6 and 7 of the Housing Act
Managing housing/homelessness cases
Using housing case-management systems – Civica experience is particularly desirable
Contract details
Location: East Suffolk
Rate: £22.20 per hour PAYE / £30.00 per hour Umbrella
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: 28 September 2026 – 31 January 2027
IR35: Inside IR35
Working arrangement: Mainly home-based/remote, with some face-to-face team meetings
DBS: Basic DBS required
Interview: Teams
Previous local authority homelessness experience is important for this position.
To apply, please send your CV to Lynx Employment Services Ltd
