Housing Benefits Officer

DescriptionJob Title: Housing Benefits Officer
Location: Harrow Council, Station Rd, Harrow HA1 2XYUK, HA3 8NT
Employer: Pertemps Recruitment Partnership for Harrow Council
Contract Type: Temporary
Hours of Work: Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:00 [36 Hours per week]
Overview of a Housing Benefits Officer
Pertemps have an exciting opportunity within Harrow Council for a self-driven and motivated Housing Benefits Officer to join an expanding team
The role of a Housing Benefits Officer has a competitive pay rate of up to £20 Per Hour
Other benefits include excellent training and support for career development and 21 days holiday [excluding Bank Holidays].
The Main Purpose of a Housing Benefits Officer
Work with Access Harrow, Revenues, CAFT, Finance and Housing and External Partners including the Department for Work and Pensions and where appropriate the Business Transformation Partner to ensure delivery and performance targets are met.
Responsibility for undertaking any revision to entitlement/contribution for Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support including more complex calculations in respect of self-employed, students, etc
Evaluate and be responsible for any review to the entitlement /contribution for Housing Benefit, Council Tax Support including more complex calculations in respect of self-employed, students, etc
Make decisions on and implement Housing Benefit/Council Tax Support backdating requests
About you, the successful Housing Benefits Officer will have:
Extensive current knowledge and understanding of all relevant benefits legislation and Harrow's Council Tax Support policy, principles and procedures
Substantial practical experience of Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit/Support assessment work in a back office environment
Experience of using a PC to update records and extract information
Willingness & ability to use and develop further new skills to download data and to manipulate it into usable formats
2-3 years' experience in a simar roleAbout us
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership have been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players within the recruitment industry
The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running
We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do
We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in length of service and career progression of our employees.
Harrow Council is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit
Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service
It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.
The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct
If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment
Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity
Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting [url removed]/fpn
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