Housing Officer

3 weeks ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom City of Edinburgh Council Full time

Job Description

Place

Housing Officer within HP&HOT
Various Location - could be based at any of our locality offices

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

Monday - Friday.

Please note that successfully shortlisted applicants for this post may be interviewed remotely using Microsoft Teams.

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. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a HP&HOT Housing Officer - to prevent and resolve 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
High St. - High Street, Edinburgh

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

The HP&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&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 a variety of roles within the service. You may be part of an Emergency Duty and New Appointment team in localities, providing advice to intervene at an early stage to prevent homelessness, or support assessed homeless applicants to move on into settled accommodation as quickly possible.

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 we meet our service delivery requirements. 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.

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.

Requirements

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.

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.

Our salary range typically reflects the initial starting salary and annually increases until it reaches the top of the range.


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