Housing Officer

2 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Job Description

Place

Housing Officer - Fixe term until 31/3/
Core Office is North West at 8 West Pilton Gardens. However, you could be based at any of our locality offices.

Salary: £30, - £36,
Hours: 36 per week

Please note that successfully shortlisted applicants for this post will be interviewed either on MS Teams or in person, in Edinburgh.

HP&HOT Housing Officer Post overview

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Homelessness Prevention and Housing Options Team (HP&HOT) is at the frontline of tackling homelessness in Edinburgh.

Working across the following locations:

North West Office – 8 West Pilton Gardens, Edinburgh
South East Office – 40 Captain’s Road, Edinburgh
North East Office – Niddrie Mains Road, Edinburgh
South West Office – 10 Westside Plaza, Edinburgh

Please note that that at any point in your employment with the Council that you may be required to working in any location across Edinburgh and therefore the above locations may change.

The HP and HOT Housing Officer will work in a statutory service and be fully responsible for providing tailored housing options advice, information and support referrals to either prevent homelessness or to enable assessed homeless people to access suitable housing as quickly as possible. The HP and HOT Housing Officer will fulfil the Council’s duties by working to legislative and good practice requirements and in collaboration with many other statutory services and partner organisations to make key statutory decisions about customers entitlement to services.

You will be required to participate on a rota and cover basis whilst working as part of an Emergency Duty and New Appointment team in localities.

This is an extremely busy and pressurised service and you will often need to provide cover in a variety of locations across Edinburgh or reschedule your diary at very short notice to ensure our statutory duties to homeless households are achieved. As such this role requires you to display resilience on a daily basis and the ability to take ownership and responsibility of applicable tasks when working in an often challenging role with households who are experiencing crisis situations.

The successful candidate will therefore have a proven track record of working within a challenging frontline service. We are specifically looking at prevention and Early Intervention, presently.

This post is regulated work with children and/or protected adults under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act . The preferred candidate will be required to join the PVG Scheme or undergo a PVG Scheme update check. Where an individual has spent a continuous period of 3 months or more out with the UK in the last 5 years, an Overseas Criminal Record Check will be required. You will be required to provide this check. An unconditional offer of employment and commencement in the post will be subject to the outcome of both these pre-employment checks being deemed satisfactory.

As part of our goal to improve our organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we want to make sure that we’re bringing the best people into our roles, not just in their skills and experience but also in their approach to work.

Requirements

To help achieve this, we’re changing the way we interview and assess candidates by moving from a competency-based interview approach to a behavioural and technical (skills for the job) based approach. This new way of interviewing will allow us to assess how you think and how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We're committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits that a diverse workforce with different values, beliefs, experience, and backgrounds brings to us as an organisation.

You can find out more on Our Behaviours web page

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