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About the Role

Manage a disabled facilities grants (DFG) and home improvement service, including regulating and bringing empty homes back into use. Support the Head of Service in restructuring the DFG team, implementing a new IT system, and ensuring timely delivery of services and budget utilization.

Responsibilities

• Manage a busy disabled facilities grants (DFG) and home improvement service with up to 9 direct reports.
• Regulate and bring empty homes back into use, with direct line management of the councils empty homes officer.
• Support the Head of Service in restructuring the DFG team to optimize and improve service delivery.
• Implement a new IT system.
• Deliver DFGs and home improvement loans within statutory and guidance timescales.
• Oversee the allocation of the annual DFG budget, ensuring full utilization and value for money.

Requirements

• Experience in the administration of grants and adaptations.
• Excellent understanding of relevant grants legislation and guidance.
• Experience in performance management.
• Ability to ensure DFG/discretionary grant referrals are completed within statutory/guidance timescales with quality and consistency.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal and case management skills.
• Understanding and working knowledge of empty homes legislation, including options to bring them back into use.
• HNC/HND in construction, surveying or similar is desirable (or willing to work towards).
• Certificate of competency in performing HHSRS assessments and hazard identification is desirable (or willing to work towards).
• Trusted Assessor Level 4 Certificate is desirable (or willing to work towards).
• The job is subject to a basic DBS check.

Skills

• Leading and motivating a team
• Performance management
• Communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Case management

Location

• Lawrence House, 1 Catford Road, London, SE6 4RU

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-level

Education Level

• HNC/HND desirable

Salary/Compensations

• £57,495 to £59,574 per annum (P06)

Benefits

• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Generous holiday allowance
• Local Government Pension scheme
• Flexible working and family friendly policies
• Season ticket and bicycle loans
• A range of staff discounts including local subsidised gym memberships
• Supportive staff networks

About the Company

• Discover yourself in Lewisham where what you do makes a difference to our vibrant and culturally diverse communities!
• We have a rich history of welcoming people from all over the world and are proud to be recognised as the UK’s first Borough of Sanctuary, for our work in championing the rights of refugees and migrants.

Equal Opportunity

• Lewisham Council is a Disability Confident employer. We welcome and encourage job applications of all abilities. If you require any reasonable adjustments in the application or interview, please contact the lead contact on this advert. We will make reasonable adjustments to make sure our disabled applicants and those with health conditions are supported throughout our recruitment process. We support the access to work scheme, further details are available at www.gov.uk/access-to-work/apply.