Homelessness Prevention Adviser

Salary: £42,221 - £47,940 Grade: Level 3 Zone 2 Location: 5 Pancras Square N1C 4AG Contract Type: Permanent Hours: Full Time (36 hours) Closing Date: Sunday 26th July 2026 at 23:59 About Camden Camden is changing on the inside to make life better for everyone. Our residents and communities are at the heart of everything we do. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today and we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all. How You’ll Be Involved This role contributes to achieving the strategy’s aims through delivery of a first class housing advice and options service, ensuring statutory Homelessness Reduction Act legislative requirements are met, and working effectively with stakeholders using early intervention and prevention strategies. The role will ensure • that through casework with applicants and landlords/agents and wider joint working that tenancies set up via Camden’s PRS access schemes are sustainable and are sustained for as long as possible. • achievement of challenging targets within defined timescales, for helping families to make positive moves to prevent homelessness or out of temporary accommodation, through provision of first class housing advice and support with the widest possible range of housing options. • completion of high quality, timely and accurate assessments in accordance with the Housing Act 1996 Parts VI (including a caseload of statutory Part VI reviews) and VII, Code of Guidance, caselaw and the council’s strategies and policies (especially the homelessness placement policy and housing allocations scheme). • that through proactive, strengths based casework and joint working, personalised housing plans are actioned for households to move seamlessly and successfully, at the most appropriate time, to an affordable home suitable for their needs that is sustainable. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and will require an Enhanced DBS. All About You for more information on our commitment. Asking for Adjustments At Camden, we are committed to making our recruitment process barrier-free and accessible for everyone. If you need us to do something differently during the application, interview or assessment process, just let us know and we will support you. This could include providing information in an alternative format, extra time in assessments, or adjustments for disabled, neurodiverse or long-term health conditions. Please contact us on , at or by post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG. We’ll work with you to make sure the process works for you. Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.