Housing Advice & Prevention Officer

£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